Live Webinar – May 19th 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 19th 2016, 4:00 – 5:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

Test automation has been around almost as long as software has been developed.

In the age of Agile and the DevOps arena, having tests fully automated is increasingly becoming a key factor to the success of a project.

The best place for the creation of tests is the agile sprint team, where product owners, developers and QA’s work together.

Tests and their automation should be ready when a sprint is “DONE”!

However, more often than not teams find themselves in a situation where the functionalities under test are ready, but the tests are not.

In this webinar Hans Buwalda will go through a number of solutions a team can do to diminish this problem, and what actions to take when it happens.

Hans will discuss the following solutions:

• How one can apply better test design to drive better automation,
• A number of technical strategies, what developers and product owners can do to help, and
• How to handle the testing and automation work that is still left after a sprint has finished.

A key item in  handling the test automation work that is left over is that QA’s need to own the testing from the beginning, and should not get stuck in the work of previous sprints, since that will inhibit good cooperation with other team members, making matters worse.

Key Takeaways:

• Get more tests created and automated.
• Make automation manageable and maintainable.
• Keep the QA people in sync with their fellow team members.

Presenter: Hans Buwalda (LinkedIn profile) is with LogiGear, USA and  has been working with information technology since his teen years. Author of Integrated Test Design and Automation : Using the Testframe Method, Hans gained his experience as a developer, manager, and principal consultant for companies and organizations worldwide. Hans was a pioneer of the keyword approach to testing and automation, now widely used throughout the industry. His approaches to testing—action-based testing and soap opera testing—have helped a variety of customers achieve scalable and maintainable solutions for large and complex testing challenges. Hans is a frequent speaker at STAR conferences.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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How To Get Automated Testing “Done”

Live Webinar – May 16th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 16th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

As Kevin Harris explains the topic of the webinar:

When I first started 18 years ago, the tester’s role was pretty simple – find as many bugs as you can. That was it. And I was pretty good at that – in my first few years I found literally thousands of bugs.

Many years later we like to think that we are much better testers than we used to be – more experienced, using more techniques and more tools to find bugs in more and more interesting ways.

We are often working on systems incredibly more complex than we ever used to, with more moving parts and more things that could go wrong.

And yet many of us are not raising anywhere near as many bugs that we used to.

So why is that?”

This webinar looks at 10 simple improvements in the way testers work which means that they’re now either catching bugs before they get to the test environment, or, even better, preventing them from happening in the first place.

Presenter: Kevin Harris (LinkedIn profile), NewVoiceMedia, UK – has been in Software Testing for more than 15 years, working in a variety of industries – loyalty, travel, health, Government, marketing and communications.  Kevin worked  in a variety of roles from Tester to Test Manager (via Developer, Business Analyst and Scrum Master), and is is specifically interested in the Agile Process and the positive effect it has had on the Development process. 

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Striving for Zero Bugs on the Test Environment

Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Live Webinar – May 17th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 BST
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by: TestHuddle.com

Over the last 20 years Geoff Thompson has been involved in many Test Process Improvement projects.

Today the amount of change and improvement going on in testing is growing, so this is still a very important part of what testers have to do.

People complain that they can’t calculate any benefits, that testers won’t change and why do they need to deliver quick wins?

This presentation looks at how to make any improvement project a success, and it does this by using some fun case study examples looking at how Geoff has seen things go wrong, and from the depth of despair Geoff will look at how things can be made to be successful.

The title of this talk was something a very senior manager once said to Geoff, – How hard can it be write a new process, just do it and just put it on peoples desks, that’s all there is to it. It will just take you a couple of weeks.

Geoff believed him at first, but have since learned his lesson.

The techniques Geoff  will be discussing are just as appropriate in Waterfall as they are in Agile, and DevOps. Come and learn all about it!

Key Takeaways:

• Understand how to structure a process
• Understand the 8 steps to success
• Understand key success factors

Presenter: Geoff Thompson (LinkedIn profile) is the Consultancy Director for Experimentus. working globally Geoff has a real passion for software testing. He is a founder member of the International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB), the TMMi Foundation, and the UK Testing Board and is currently the Secretary of the ISTQB and Chairman of The UK Testing Board. He co-authored the BCS book Software Testing – An ISEB/ISTQB foundation. In 2008 Geoff was awarded the European Testing Excellence Award.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.3 Control Quality

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

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Test Process Improvement: How Hard Can It Be?

Live Webinar – May 2nd, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

In this Lunch and Learn, NK Shrivastava describes advanced techniques in scope and change management.

• Learn how to go beyond the basics of scope and change management by using a requirements traceability matrix (RTM).
• Learn how to enhance change management in order to better control the scope of their projects.

Leave this webinar with a better idea of how to take scope & change management to the next level.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

As a reminder, anyone who attends three Lunch & Learn webinars in a row will be eligible for a Star Attendee prize drawing of a $10 Amazon gift card.

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Advanced Scope & Change Management Techniques

Live Webinar – April 6th, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category B – Free PDU
By: RefineM Project Management Consulting (Rep# 3390)

Are you an experienced project manager, or new certification holder, looking for ways to take your stakeholder management to the next level?

Last month, RefineM began a series on advanced project management techniques by providing an overview of the technical and leadership skills of advanced project management.

In this month’s Lunch and Learn, RefineM describes advanced techniques in stakeholder management.

Attendees will learn how to go beyond the basics of stakeholder management by integrating stakeholder management with the communication plan.

In addition, attendees will learn how to use Net Promoter Score (NPS) to prioritize efforts to manage stakeholder expectations.

Leave this webinar with a better idea of how to take stakeholder management to the next level.

Who Should Attend: Anyone in a project management role, including project/program managers, PMO leaders, and project team members who have been managing/leading projects and are looking for advanced techniques to strengthen their career.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM (LinkedIn profile) is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach. With over 25 years of experience in project management, NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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Advanced Stakeholder Management Techniques

Live Webinar February 24th 2016, 2:00 – 3:00 pm EST
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU or 1 CDU 1 Category A Free
Previously recorded version also available.

This session is a deep dive into requirements documentation issues showing examples of good documentation practices and samples of materials that only look good on the surface, but have significant buried problems.

Find out the 3 most common documentation mistakes, and learn about 5 critical success factors for effective requirements documentation.

Learning Objectives:

1. Know what material must be present in high quality requirements documentation.
2. See how documentation defects impact project performance.
3. Learn how to simplify your strategy for documentation by focusing on the right information at the right time

You will have to register – then the webinar will load in the page Please be patient this may take a min or two to load. (You may have to use the side scroll bar to place the webinar on pause)

Click to register for the live version of:
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation

Recorded Version Information: If you watch the recorded version of this webinar it is a good idea to record the information about this webinar date, time, and list this prerecorded event for your PDU Audit folder.

Click to view a recorded version (2008-10-28) of:
Inside Effective Business Requirements Documentation .