Live Webinar November 19th, 2019 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1.5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Many people outside of the testing profession seem to think so, and, based on the relative paucity of money devoted to testing compared to other activities in the lifecycle, it’s certainly not a high priority for many organizations.

1. Is that smart?
2. Why do we test software?
3. What benefits, goals,
4. and objectives does testing serve?

Attend this presentation to learn solid, hard-headed, convincing reasons why testing is one of the smartest investments you can make, and why organizations that invest in testing receive long-lasting benefits from doing so.

Rex will lay out the case for software testing and answer your questions.

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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Is Testing A Waste Of Time & Money?

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Live Webinar October 7th, 2019, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Data and analytics increasingly drive success in today’s organizations, but are we truly reaping the benefits that they promise?

Join Rick Greenwald (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst & Adam Ronthal (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst, for this webinar as they  delve into the key trends in the data management solutions for analytics market.

Gain new insights about the state of the market, the rise of cloud, the role of the data lake, logical data warehouse architectures, and what’s up with Hadoop.

This webinar focuses on Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics (DMSA), the critical capabilities for DMSA, and other vendors to consider.

Discussion Topics:

• The key trends in the data management solutions for analytics market
• The key players impacting this market
• The modern analytic data management solution architecture

Return to the web page to watch both the live and on-demand webinar.

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Key Trends In Data Management Solutions For Analytics

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Live Webinar October 10th, 2019 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

What problems could you solve and what solutions would you build if you had a programmer at your disposal at all times?

With Quick Base, you don’t need one. Instead of going to IT, you can build an application for capturing, storing and managing data about your business systems – without learning how to code.

Quick Base is an award-winning cloud software platform for creating custom solutions to everyday business challenges.

Quick Base is fast, customizable, and allows non-programmers to build solutions while still reaping the benefits of standardization, governance and security offered by commercial software products.

Learn how to:

• Design a data model of your business problem
• Build an application using that model
• Manage User Roles, Reports, Dashboards and more

The no-code platform empowers business analysts and other non-programmers to:

1. Build your own automated workflows and processes to increase team efficiencies
2. Connect whatever data sources you need with ease
3. Build reports and dashboards that track key metrics and information that’s important to you
4. Build multiple prototypes to explore alternate solutions.

Putting continuous improvement tools in the hands of BAs allows all aspects of the business to constantly experiment, iterate and improve.

During the webinar Erich Wehrmann, (LinkedIn profile) Solutions Consultant at Quick Base for this webinar to see how Quick Base can be used to solve common business problems & give you an introduction to the Quick Base platform and demonstrate how to build an app to manage your workflows and automate your processes without coding.

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How BAs Can Use Technology To Implement
A Continuous Improvement Plan

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Live Webinar July 24th, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Many organizations deploy modern analytics and BI tools, but agile, governed and business-impactful self-service analytics remain a mirage for most users.

From analytics decentralization that remains centralized to self-service anarchy, failure has many shapes and forms.

In this webinar Joao Tapadinhas (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research Director  will provide you with best practices to start, evolve and expand self-service analytics for pervasive, governed and timely access to information across your organization.

Discussion Topics:

• Why self-service analytics remain a mirage for most users
• The many shapes and forms of analytics failures
• How to start, evolve and expand self-service analytics at your organizations

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How To Start, Evolve & Expand Self-Service Analytics

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Online Webinar  – Recorded April 12, 2016
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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This webinar focuses on the differences in roles between a Portfolio Manager, Project Manager, Product Owner and Business Analysis.

Very often, we are asked to fulfill multiple roles within one project.

What happens when you have an objective conflict between the different roles you are responsible for?

There are arguments for holding different people responsible for the various duties, but this webinar also covers the techniques you can deploy if you find yourself in such a situation, and the case is made in ensuring organizational checks and balances.

Presenter: Michael Boyle (LinkedIn profile) PMP PfMP Michael’s professional dealings have been throughout Europe with numerous global projects throughout the years. Currently, Michael is the Managing Director of Procurro Solutions, specializing on all elements tied to Project Management, Business Analysis and Product Management.

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The Case For Organizational Checks & Balances

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Live Webinar July 10th 2019 – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

• Is your organization looking for growth opportunities?
• Do feel the status quo within your firm or your industry is ripe for disruption?
• Are you concerned your company will be swamped by the backwash of some else’s innovation?

Your organization needs to innovate. Innovation requires a way of thinking, a reliable process and a toolset to identify the problem or challenge that you are best equipped to solve while solving it in a manner stakeholders will value.

Innovation is risky, so is not adequately anticipating ever persistent change.

This session discusses several approaches and tools developed to enable teams to apply designerly ways that center design on your users, and enables your users to help you help them.  To learn design thinking well is to apply it.

This Design Thinking webinar puts the evolution of a product design in your hands in collaboration with a participant design team.

Join Rex Black to learn about the Design Thinking approach to solving problems, which will serve you well as an individual contributor, manager or leader.

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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One Key Idea – Design Thinking:
Solve The Right Problem The Right Way

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