Live Webinar – September 24th, 2020 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

Advanced analytics and business intelligence are poised to improve cost performance for project driven companies. Industries, such as Infrastructure, Technology and Finance, specifically in Project Management discipline, relied on traditional methods and tools and until recently were slow in adopting modern digital technology.

In the past number of years, the Industry digitalized most of its Project Management information, generating volumes of data that are beyond capacity of people and regular information management tools. Audiit is on a mission to turn Project Management Data into an asset that revolutionizes and disrupts the industry pushing it to perform at the levels of technology driven companies.

Employing Deep Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Project Management Data makes it work harder for the Industry. To support the move from static to advanced dynamic business intelligence, companies need to leverage historical and real-time transactional data to provide insights and intelligence.

Course Objectives Include:

1. Learn about current and future business intelligence tools and methods.
2. Learn to align daily Project Management activities with strategic company goals.
3. Learn how advanced analytics in Project Management improves business performance and outcomes.

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenters:

Fred Radnoti (LinkedIn profile) is Co-Founder SAR Associates Inc. After graduating Fred joined the Lake Erie Development project at Stelco in Hamilton  He then joined Ontario Hydro (OPG) Pickering B project & joined Operation’s PMO responsible for Capital Project Planning. Since the acquisition of Primavera Systems by Oracle, SAR has been an Oracle Gold Partner.  His latest initiative is representing Audiit Corp’s products as a VAR providing an essential tool for clients involved in major Capital and Infrastructure projects.

Tara Donnelly (LinkedIn profile) Client Executive Audiit Business Solutions Corp; is a seasoned business developer with 14+ years’ experience in Project Management software industry. Tara works closely with Audiit’s clients to help them capture the most value from their Project Management Data to empower them to be Machine Learning and Analytics-Driven organizations.

Vladimir Urbanovich (LinkedIn profile) Audiit Business Solutions Corp has 20+ years of project management, business processes improvement & automation and executive experience in large companies in several industries. Vladimir worked in Telecommunications, Power, Oil & Gas, Municipalities, and Transportation industries. He continues participating in a variety of projects providing best in class business solutions.

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Data Science In Project Management:
Science Fiction Or Reality?

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Live Webinar July 20th, 2020 – 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

In this month’s webinar, RBCS  is happy to welcome guest speaker, Adam Leon Smith.

AI is a complex topic and is the biggest technical renaissance to impact testing for at least two decades. Adam will talk about intrinsic quality issues with AI, challenges in testing AI-based systems, and new techniques and methods. In addition, he will cover emerging AI-enhanced testing tools that are yet to get much coverage.

Presenter: Adam Leon Smith (LinkedIn profile) CTO Dragonfly, with 20+ years experience is focused on testing, quality and AI. Adam works in environments, development, testing, quality and project delivery.  In addition to commercial experience, Adam is the chair of the British Computer Society’s Special Interest Group in software testing, and works with international standardization committees developing AI and quality-related standards.

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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Quality & AI-Based Systems

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Live Webinar – July 16th, 2020, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: BATimes (Diversified Business Communications REP1811)

• Organizations need great products to implement their strategy.
• They also need products that meet customers’ needs and demands.

One of the challenges organizations have is how to align the roles to execute strategies better and produce more value for their customers.

This presentation will explore the roles of project managers, business analysts, and product owners working together in partnership through the project and product lifecycles.

Peter & Joanna will first define the roles of project managers, business analysts, and product owners and their interactions. We will discuss how the roles fit into the product lifecycle to deliver value to customers.

They will present the iterative product development approach through an example and why this approach is key to delivering value to customers. Then we will show how project managers, business analysts, and product owners support each other in the iterative approach to ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement and communications and getting feedback from customers.

Through continuous feedback, integration, and product improvement will result in products meeting customer needs and organizations achieving their strategic objectives.

This virtual presentation has been designed with interactive discussions and activities.

Course Learning Objectives Include:

• Describe roles of Project Managers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners on projects
• Apply the three roles to an effective iterative product development cycle
• Understand how the three roles need to work together to improve communications and gather customer feedback

With the Course You Will Receive:

• Access to the Live and Recorded Version of Webinar
• Personalized Certificate of Attendance
• Copy of Presentation Slides

Presenters:

Peter Monkhouse. (LinkedIn profile) President MonkArt, teaches a variety of project management & business courses at Ryerson University, University of Toronto, and University of Calgary. Peter has actively led projects and project managers in the areas of education, consulting, engineering, information technology, health, and organizational change from multinational organizations to startups.  Peter has taught thousands of students in PM in a variety of formats. He has been an active volunteer with PMI for 20 +years and presently sits on the PMI Education Foundation Board of Directors. Peter has a BSc (Engineering) & an MBA.

Joanna Tivig, (LinkedIn profile) is a Lecturer, Agile Leadership Coach and Speaker with 15+ years of executive experience launching successful products and portfolios in and outside Canada. She is also a committee member & organizer of Toronto Agile Conference. Joanna has been a Lecturer for UofT School of Continuing Studies for 10+ years. She recently launched her own business, focusing on improving the productivity of Agile teams. She has led successful transformation projects (Branch Transformation and Agile Adoption) in the Financial Services sector.  Joanna has a Bachelor Degree in Education & Foreign Languages, and holds multiple certifications in Business, Project Management and Agile.

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A Golden Partnership: PMs, BAs, & POs

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Live Webinar July 9th, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

Data mining has been considered the province of the data scientist and data analyst. But the data scientists and data analysts only solve the business problems that are given to them provided those business problems can be solved with data.

Someone has to analyze the processes and conditions of the business to determine what the problems are and then determine whether data can solve those problems and answer the questions related to those problems. And that someone is the business analyst.

On this webinar Steven P. Blais provides guidelines to determining business problems that can be solved with data and provides the details of what data mining is all about.

Topics: 

• Business analyst or data analyst or data scientist?
• Determine the right data
• The process of getting value from data
• Produce actionable insights
• Provide the questions and interpret the answers

Presenters: Steven P. Blais, PMP, PMI-PBA (LinkedIn profile) is an author, consultant, teacher and coach  and has over 45+ years of information systems experience in technology management, consulting and marketing positions. Specializing in the design and installation of business-oriented accounting systems and databases for commercial and government clients in the distributed environment; he develops business analysis and agile processes and trains business analysts, project managers, and executive for organizations around the world.   Steven is the author of Business Analysis: Best Practices for Success (John Wiley, 2011) and co-author of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide (PMI, 2014) and a contributor to the A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK Guide), V3 (IIBA, 2015).

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The BA & Data Mining

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Live Webinar June 15th, 2020 – 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  0 .5 Hrs  0.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

Isn’t It Amazing?

Stakeholders drop software on our desk and expect us to test it with no requirements, no design and no product knowledge whatsoever. About the only clear thing is the absurd and unrealistic deadline. We are expected to bend over backward, spread magic pixie dust and heroically test quality into a product we never heard of before.

But testing in the dark is not impossible – and as Rob Sabourin (LinkedIn profile) shows it can even be a very valuable and fun experience.

Learn strategies to emerge from a murky fog into clear meaningful quality insights. Leverage unlikely sources about what stakeholder’s care about and what users really need the software to do.

Join Rob’s quest to find important bugs fast, let “testing in the dark” illuminate you!

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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Testing In The Dark

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Live Webinar June 11th, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

It might be easy for the business analyst to pass the challenges of business analytics, with all of the statistics, math, algorithms, programming in strange languages like R and Python off to the data analysts and data scientists but at the same time we may find that we are passing control of the business and of our careers to someone else.

Business analytics does not work, at least it won’t work successfully, without having some kind of business problem to solve.

Despite the mythology of data mining and data analysts coming up with magic associations and insights that no one ever saw before, it doesn’t really happen that way.

The data analysts and data scientists are brilliant at applying algorithms to massive amounts of data to produce results, but someone has to understand what the organization’s problems and issues are and form the questions that the data scientists and analysts are going to answer with data.

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The BA & Business Analytics

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