Live Webinar August 10th, 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)

1. You know that testing and quality is important, right?
   • Okay, prove it.
2. Exactly how much money do you think testing saves?
   • Yes, that’s right saves.

Testing is often thought of as a regrettable cost center, something that must be funded to avoid some dimly-understood “bad stuff that could happen.”

In fact, software testing and other quality assurance activities save money. Typically, every dollar spent on testing saves eight dollars in the long run.

In this One Key Idea session, Rex will demonstrate the use of cost of quality, a technique known for over 50 years, using a real world case study and a spreadsheet you can download and use that same day.

Know The Value Of Your Testers!

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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Measuring The Value Of Testing Using Cost Of Quality

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Live Webinar August 4th, 2020, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

For another Great PDU Check Out:
Leading Through COVID-19:
10 Rules For Rapid IT Spend Reduction

Top-performing leaders never cost-cut their way to enterprise-level strategic relevance. They extend their cost optimization efforts to focus on investing resources to drive business outcomes and create business value, even in economic or business downturns.

Organizations must approach cost management as an expansive effort that can have immediate and long-term significance to business performance.

In this webinar Chris Ganly (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Sr Director Analyst looks at why cost management demands a mix of approaches and improvements that touch every part of the enterprise if it is to truly serve the enterprise.

Discussion Topics:

• Three approaches to cost management and how you should apply them
• Move past cutting into optimizing costs and realizing business value
• Create business value by investing in business outcomes

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

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Invest In Recovery: 3 Approaches To Cost Management

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Live Webinar – July 14th, 2020 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

While organizations accelerate moving their data-intensive applications to the cloud for cost cutting reasons, they are afforded the opportunity to adopt cloud-native technologies. IT departments are facing a radically different operating climate than they did last winter.

Now their entire user and customer communities have moved exclusively online and IT must make counter moves.

New requirements for personalization require a much more flexible data management infrastructure to map user behaviors, sessions and available products and services more effectively.

And users don’t just use laptops, they are mobile and expect consistency across experiences. What will you and your application do?

In this event Rahul Pradhan (LinkedIn profile) Senior Director, Product & Engineering – Cloud Databases will provide answers for how to improve development team agility by adopting versatile NoSQL database platforms, while it is automatically deployed and managed within their providers’ virtual private cloud.

Rahul will introduce the In-VPC style of deployment, which eliminates an inconvenient data residency issue found in everyday SaaS products who house customer data outside the owners’ network.

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Your Budget Is Gone,
Your Data-Intensive Application Is Next,
What Do You Do?

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Live Webinar – July 8th 2020 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – July 8th 2020 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

There is no shortage of commentary and ‘vision’ about the way in which AI will impact projects and project managers.

At present only a few companies have developed working platforms for time and/or cost management, with the majority being pre-commercial.

Endeavour Programme’s platform Octant AI focusses on mitigating poor cost performance and is in commercial operational use for infrastructure projects. Early adopters are changing the way they manage their projects based on its near real time actionable predictions.

This presentation will focus on the lived experience of developing and implementing an AI platform in a customer organisation.

David will cover issues that have had practical impact such as paradigm change, problem definition, data availability, response from professionals using the system and return on investment.

A Sample 3 Minute Demo of AI Dashboard

https://youtu.be/Et1gHMgXSZA

Presenter: David Porter  (LinkedIn profile) Founder Endeavour Programme & AI platform Octant AI;  is the driving force behind the business and its global strategy. David is a project and programme leader with 30+ years of experience in project development and delivery across a wide range of industries. H Through collaboration during a sabbatical at University of Oxford, he established Endeavour Programme with fellow grad students and colleagues from around the world.

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AI For Project Cost Risk:
The Reality Of Commercial Use

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Online Webinar  – Recorded January 10 2020
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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Agile is sometimes introduced as a cheaper way of delivering projects, products, and services.

Unlike the traditional approach of measuring the value delivered based on the planned deliverables, the budget spent, and meeting the critical milestones, Agile doesn’t and shouldn’t track the delivery in the same way.

Agile is a new approach, and traditional project finance management may not be relevant or can become an impediment to agility. Agile is or should be based on trust, and in an Agile organization, most of the financial planning and reporting should not be necessary.

However, very few organizations have the necessary conditions to abolish tight financial management.

In this webinar Stelian Roman (LinkedIn profile)  will propose a few financial management approaches for Agile projects, highlighting the necessity as well as the challenges of each of the proposed models.

For More Great Webinars In This Series
Check Out: (1 PDU Each)

• The Agile Enterprise: Using Risk Management Standards
• The Agile Enterprise: A Look At The Role of PMI & ISO Standards In Agile – Earned Value Standard
• The Agile Enterprise: How Can Agile Processes Be Improved?
• The Agile Enterprise: Benchmarking Projects Measuring Project Outcome Not The Output
• The Agile Enterprise: Using Kanban & Kaizen With Business Teams
• The Agile Enterprise: Using TRIZ for Business Teams
• The Agile Enterprise: Managing Financial Aspects In Agile Projects
• The Agile Enterprise: The Impact Of Robot Process Automation To Agile

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The Agile Enterprise:
Managing Financial Aspects In Agile Projects

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Live Webinar June 23rd 2020 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Human Capital Institute

No Company Wants To Layoff Its Employees

The Great Recession of 2008 taught many organizations that letting go of people has downstream consequences to employer brand, employee morale and productivity, innovation and the ability to be agile and competitive once the economy recovers.

Yet, with the magnitude and length of the current pandemic-induced recession unknown, many organizations may feel they have no choice but to lay off a percentage of their workforce.

Rapid redeployment is gaining attention as companies look for opportunities to transfer current employees to internal roles, projects and temporary assignments within a matter of days or weeks.

In this webinar Jeanne Schad (LinkedIn profile) Talent Solutions & Strategy Practice Lead RiseSmart,will explore the value of rapid redeployment as an important option for employers to consider as part of their workforce toolkit.

Note:

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 General recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™, and SPHRi™ recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

SHRM has pre-approved this webcast for 1 Professional Development Credits (PDCs) towards SHRM-CP℠ or SHRM-SCP℠ Certifications.

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Avoiding Layoffs & Cutting Expenses With Rapid Redeployment

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