Live Webinar – June 22nd 2021 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – June 22nd 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

For Hamlet it was life or death. For agile evangelists it sometimes seems to be the same. How do you introduce agile safely?

Peter is curious about new ways of working, but also cautious of going too far. You may be wondering what new agile practices to adopt. Perhaps you are already making the same discoveries Peter has over the past six years.

Peter works in the middle of the organisation, and has moved from a civil engineering waterfall background to introducing agile in change management.

In this session Peter would like to share with you this story of planting many agile seeds and helping them grow:

• Is it practical to choose agile for our change projects?
• Can we effectively use it for design and construction projects or indeed anything we do in the business?
• Should we continue to use some waterfall techniques?
• Can we sprinkle some agile thinking into the waterfall domain?

You may recognise some of the challenges he has experienced. Often the lessons come from where it didn’t go as planned.

There are also many success stories; memorable moments when it all clicks together and spurs us on in the next step of our maturity.

Presenter: Peter Faulks (LinkedIn profile) is a Civil Engineer 20+ years experience in the Water Industry in Scotland.  As a Project Manager he reworked the delivery of flooding projects so the process focuses on the impacted customers. Peter then moved into Business Change and instigated new ideas into the business including Lean Thinking, Building Information Modelling, Systems Thinking and agile techniques.  Peter is a leader in Asset Management Transformation. Peter proved that agile principles do make a difference to how people think, react and support each other and how the outcomes are of more value.

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To Be Agile Or Not To Be, That Is Not The Question!

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Live Webinar – June 16th, 2020 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Live Webinar – June 16th, 2020 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: APM a division of  APMG International

Agile is a word associated with progress, with momentum, and is a shorthand for describing how organizations want to operate.

It is so common that applying agile techniques and having an agile mindset appear in job descriptions and interview questions all the time.

However, experiences differ:

• Everyone seems to have a different definition and meaning to agile and agility.
• Many of us are working in ‘agile’ environments but often this is limited to certain activities and not a widespread adoption of the agile mindset across the organization.
• We know an agile approach will fit better with all the uncertainty around us but are not sure how to get started.

In this webinar presenter Melanie Franklin will take us through the top 10 things we can do to adopt higher levels of agile practices and techniques into our everyday work.

Her suggestions apply to those in project and programme roles, change roles and to line managers and executive leaders.

Her ideas are practical, but they all require a shift in behaviour and habits, so the challenge will be how much of what she shares you can (and will) put into practice!

Whether you know lots about Agile methodologies or have had limited exposure, these practical ideas are suitable for all.

Presenter: Melanie Franklin, (LinkedIn profile, @AgileMelanie) has a track record of excellence in project, programme and portfolio planning & delivery. She has set up and run the project management capability for several major corporates and has been responsible for the successful delivery of global transformational change programmes for over twenty years. Co-chair of the Change Management Institute in the UK, Melanie is a ‘Master’ level change practitioner and author of many books on change and project management including Managing Business Transformation: A Practical Guide; Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.  and her newest book Communicating Change: How to control your own change initiative.

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Being Agile

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Online Webinar  – Recorded September 17, 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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The term “agile” has been with us for a couple of decades now, along with the practices that it represents. We also recognize the need to engage in hybrid management approaches.

When the right answer “depends,” the key challenge is knowing what it depends on, and how to proceed. With a range of possible approaches to our projects, we need strategies to assess the most likely successful path and what the key influences on that choice might be.

In this presentation Mark Mullaly (LinkedIn profile) author of Researching the Value of Project Management takes a deep dive into thinking about how to adapt approaches to our projects.

In particular, it considers where and when we might need to adapt approaches that are already billed as being “adaptive.”

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Adapting Adaptive Approaches

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Live Webinar May 12th, 2021 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hrs  1 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

“What Gets Measured Gets Managed.” Jamie Mitchell explains, “I have heard this since the first day I got into software. Management wants metrics.

The managers would tell us that it allowed them to maximize our effort and the organizational profits. The more cynical of us always said that it was to make sure we were not sitting around drinking coffee instead of working.”

Not everything that matters can be measured. Not everything that we can measure matters. And this applies to software test automation more than in most software endeavors.

As an automator of almost 30 years, Jamie has struggled with the demand for metrics from management for most of his career. Most of the metrics that he has been forced to collect were—in his humble opinion—not only worthless, but also misleading and subject to manipulation by those who wanted to prove their point (no matter what that point was.)

Join the discussion, between Rex Black and Jamie Mitchell (LinkedIn profile), as they cover various kinds of metrics that have been suggested for automation.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

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Test Automation & Metrics

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Online Webinar  – Recorded August 14, 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
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Agile, for many a silver bullet, worked pretty well for software development teams with most of them being the first attempt to have a structured approach.

Bringing some order to chaos was beneficial, and the results were in some cases spectacular. Most, if not all Agile frameworks were developed by software engineers and for software engineers.

Apart from a couple of frameworks, like Disciplined Agile and SAFe that combine Agile with traditional Lean practices used in manufacturing, most Agile frameworks were developed for small teams (less than 10) and a start-up culture.

In real life, Agile does fail, more often than we think and far more often than we learn in the training courses. Agile became the victim of its success with some organizations trying to use Agile as a remedy for core issues like lack of vision, lack of decision or even lack of skills.

Contrary to public opinion, Agile and self-organization require more skills and discipline than command and control.

To be Agile, an Organization must be Agile at all levels not only at the team level. Agile is based on trust; verbal agreements should be enough. There is no need of sign-offs and approvals for each and every activity. But that’s a risk when there are multiple parties involved, especially when commercial agreements are made between entities.

In this webinar Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile)  will describe acollection of real life projects that he had to balance Agility with traditional practices.

In most cases, the solution was the return to following a plan. For each example there will be an assessment of the causes that lead to failure, what the organization could’ve done better, and lessons learned that could prevent such issues.

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The Agile Enterprise: We Tried Agile & It Didn’t Work – What’s next?

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Live Webinar Apri 27th, 2021 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc (CAI) The Great IT Professional
(Rep 2733) (Rebranded From ITMPI)

In this webinar, Hasnain Rizvi will explore the top five practical Agile practices for better dealing with pandemics.

Presenter: Hasnain Rizvi (LinkedIn profile, @RizvisPM) PhD PMP CBAP PMI-ACP PMI-RMP PMI-PBA CRISC CISM is a OPM3® Certified Consultant with project, program, portfolio management and governance experience. Hasnain performs PM maturity assessment work & has managed mission critical complex programs and projects for Global & Fortune 500 clients. Hasnain is an adjunct instructor with several North American universities, an acclaimed author and Keynote speaker. Along with leadership mentoring, Hasnain provides certification track coaching in his disciplines & in  CAPM Lean Six Sigma and ITIL Foundations.

Check out some of  Hasnain Rizvi’s great books:

1. Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers: The POWER of verbal and non-verbal communication skills in achieving SUCCESS in private life and the workplace
2. Rizvi’s Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) Exam
3. Rizvi’s Scrum Master Certified (SMC™) Exam Prep Guide
4. Rizvi’s Scrum Product Owner Certified (SPOC™) Exam Prep Guide
5. PMP® in 28 Days – Full Color Edition: Exam Preparation Guide
6. Rizvi’s CAPM Exam Prep Guide
7. Rizvi’s ECBA Exam Prep Guide
8. ACE the PMI-ACP®

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Leverage Agile Principles To Deliver Value With Resilience
During A Pandemic

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