Its been another amazing year … The website went live Jan 1 2011 with PDU opportunities and since then we have set up our Bonjour memberships, Created our eLearning Resources area, and suggested over 2300 PDU opportunities.

BUT it is our AMAZING READERS that are following us on twitter, watching our RSS feed, and checking out the site regularly that are the reason that this venture is such a joy for me.

I genuinely want to thank all of our readers and our volunteers who make this site possible! I know that you are of many diverse backgrounds and faiths and I wanted to find a way to best express my thanks and best wishes. The lyrics of this song express my thoughts and my prayers to all of you so much better than I can express.

YOU ALL make this possible! Blessings to you all!

– Martin Chernenkoff Editor pdu Of The Day

My Christmas Card To You

Written by Tony Romeo Sung by: David Cassidy Discography

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

I’m looking out my window at the softly falling snow
that dances in the early morning light
I got my guitar right before me, strummin’ a beautiful sound
watching it a-comin’ down, all around
on the fields and the farms and the road to town

And I’m thinkin’ up a letter that I’m writin’ in my head
a Christmas card to all the folks I love
Instead of lettin’ the postman bring it, I decided I’d rather sing it
especially for you, for you

To you and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

May your life be filled with sunshine, may your every wish come true
May you find the sweet fulfillment in everything you do
May your days be blessed with the very very best
both now and the whole year through
it says so in my Christmas card to …

You and all your family, your neighbors and your friends
May all your days be happy with a joy that never ends
May peace and love surround you
at Christmas time and all the whole year through
at Christmas time and all the whole year through

Live Webinar December 18th, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

Typemock has done a lot of webinars on beginning unit testing.
This isn’t one of them!

Once you have a few hundred tests under your belt, you have a whole new set of problems. Unit testing maintenance is a headache.

The way we grow our test suite helps us get different combinations of unit, integration, and acceptance tests.

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Take a look at how to overhaul you test suite, based on metrics you can track.
2. Help you optimize your test organization, your test runs, and maybe even your work.
3. Help you will learn how to manage and maintain your tests to provide the most effective ROI.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Unit Testing For Grownups: Unit Test Maintenance

Live Webinar October 25th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

Unit testing is all the rage
More and more teams are beginning to unit test.

But it can be difficult to start. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer testing, including unit testing.

Discover:

1. The difference between QA & Developer Testing
2. The pains of manual testing
3. The benefits of automated testing
4. Why unit test
5. xUnit Frameworks
6. The difference between unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD).
   Join this webinar to learn what you need to know in order to start testing.

Typemock will also be raffling away Typemock Isolator/Isolator++ licenses and t-shirts. You must attend to win.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Introduction to Unit Testing

Live Webinar October 15th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing or at least understand the basics. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test. How can you test dependencies and other tangled code?

How do you get out of the death spiral of testing?

Join this webinar and learn:

1. The problems with legacy code
2. How isolation helps
3. Hand rolled mocks
4. Mocking frameworks
5. Writing effective unit tests

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Introduction to Mocking: How to Test Dependencies & Legacy Code

Another Great Category C pduOTD Opportunity

Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking:
Testing Untestable Code

Even if you’re already a unit testing ninja like Gil, this webinar is for you! – EdmontonPM

Earn 1 category C PDU with this terrific video presentation. (Category C Documentation is provided on the page with the presentation).

Everyone is welcome but it is most appropriate for people with a background in unit testing with medium to advanced skills.

Check out Gil Zilberfeld’s, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) 1 Hour Online Webinar By Typemock – Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking: Testing Untestable Code.

Project Manager Fun – Portrays Valuable Project Management Lessons
Duration: 4 min 14 sec Credits: Does not Qualify For PDUs

As summer is coming to a close and projects are ramping up again – enjoy this bit of Project Manager Humor With Dilbert.

What Project Management Lessons do you see?

• I noticed the “Watermelon Reporting”* in the Testing session 🙂
  * Term coined by Marc Löffler (@Scrumphony)

Enjoy
Why Projects Fail – Working With Stakeholders
As Experienced by Dilbert

Dilbert is written by Scott Adams
Please visit The Official Dilbert site

Although I do not officially know Scott Adams I have joked for years about the similarities between the comic strip story lines and the positions/projects I have been a part of.

Scott Adams simply knows the life of a Project Manager
and what life is like with “Problem Leadership”

I founded pduOTD to help Managers and Stakeholders with their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) – so they might learn supportive techniques to work with their teams.

This increases productivity in a positive way.

Thank you Scott for ALWAYS making me smile
Before I was following my passion,
When I was working for Pointy Hair’d Bosses!
EdmontonPM

CANCELLED – Live Webinar August 21st, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
CANCELLED – Live Webinar August 21st, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm BST
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test

Join this webinar and learn different methods and tools that help create unit tests that can mock dependencies.

How do you apply unit testing to code that wasn’t designed for testability and normally breaks when testing?

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Take an application
2. Add tests to it
3. Refactor the code
4. Discuss readability, and where to begin.

This is an intensive demonstration of automated testing hard-core legacy code. If you are a programming ninja, or want to truly understand the value of powerful and professional unit testing, check it out.

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Read Gil’s Blog “Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings” It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

LIKE….

Gil interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa “A Product Owners Perspective” on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan 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.’

Click to register for Real Life Unit Testing: Testing Hard to Test Code