Live Webinar November 6th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
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In this webinar Adolfo Villafiorita (LinkedIn profile) will describe the main features of Ruby on Rails, highlighting its advantages and limitations and describing some of the software development practices that have been adopted over the years to support Rails development.

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Quick Development Of Web Applications With Ruby On Rails

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Live Webinar October 30th, 2018, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Digital business dramatically changes how organizations must deliver software capabilities that support business goals.

Are you and your applications team equipped to meet these demands?

In this webinar Dennis Gaughan (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Gartner Research VP explores Applications 2023, the Gartner five-year vision of how technology, delivery models and skills must evolve for CIOs and application leaders to drive change that meets demands and ensures success.

Discussion Topics:

• How digital business transforms applications capabilities and expectations
• Changes you need to make to your application development process and team
• What Applications 2023 sees unfolding for CIOs and IT leaders in the next few years

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Change Your Application Development Process To Survive Disruption

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Live Webinar – October 24th, 2018 10:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  2 Hour s 2 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

This two-hour webinar covers techniques and guidelines for defining the type of requirements needed for inclusion in an RFP for application software.

In order for Project Managers and Business Analysts to evaluate vendors and their software proposals, the business requirements need to be appropriately defined and structured.

• The methods for defining requirements for a software product are different than for custom developed solution.
• The documentation and templates of business requirements is different when they’re being written for vendor selection.
• The level of detail and what included and excluded is critical to a successful vendor assessment.

Learn answers to these issues and more in this valuable webinar.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn an effective approach for collecting requirements for inclusion in an RFP
2. Understand the essential types of requirements to be elicited and included in commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) RFP
3. Learn what should be included and the sufficient level of detail for an RFQ/RFP
4. Learn the best format and templates for writing requirements for a COTS solution

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Requirements Definition Best Practices For Software RFPs

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Online Webinar – Recorded July 9th 2018
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: ProjectManagement.com / Gantthead (REP #2488)
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1. Has your organization resisted transforming to Agile? Or …
2. Are you part of a team that wants to make the move but doesn’t know how to start?

The most stressful part of transitioning to Agile in a Waterfall environment happens at the beginning-in the uncertainty of how to get started.

In this webinar NK Shrivastava reveals practical concrete steps you can take to begin incorporating time-tested Agile practices that will help your team move the needle.

The key? You don’t have to transition to Agile all at once-or even all together.

There are several key Agile practices that waterfall teams can use to improve agility without going through the full Agile transformation and staying within the waterfall umbrella-or even adopting a hybrid Agile/Waterfall approach.

This session is targeted toward managers and project team members who want to begin incorporating Agile practices.

Learn how to adapt basic Agile practices in a waterfall environment. You will leave with the knowledge and skills to begin taking their first steps toward Agile transformation.

Presenter: NK Shrivastava (LinkedIn profile) PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SPC, is CEO of RefineM LLC and an experienced and certified Project Management Consultant, Risk Management Professional, and Agile Coach with over 25 years of experience in project management. NK is an experienced instructor/trainer on project management and Agile topics and specializes in project management fundamentals, risk management, and project recovery.

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First Steps Toward Agility:
Incorporating Agile Practices In A Waterfall Environment

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Live Webinar September 14th, 2018 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

The Agile Manifesto contains no mention of user acceptance testing (UAT).

With short iterations:

• Developers, testers and business analysts are working together on a daily basis churning out working product.
• Sometimes Acceptance Testing for each iteration can be mistaken for UAT.

Yet, UAT is best done by real business users or end users who have the knowledge to check the functionality not only for delivery as per the defined business requirements, but also to make sure it can support them in their daily tasks on the job.

Usually, business users take time out from their regular jobs to conduct user acceptance testing.

These users support the testing effort and return to their job when the UAT is completed. The problem is that not everyone is a good tester.

Business users without knowledge in testing often lack an eye for recognizing patterns and may be focused on using the application only for their particular task.

They may also not have a curious mindset to execute negative tests, things that the system should not do. Additionally, UAT usually happens at the end of the delivery cycle when it may be too late to correct any significant problems. That’s the last thing you want in Agile.

In this webinar, Philip Lew discusses how Agile ideals fall short when it comes to UAT and how to adapt Agile as well as traditional views on what UAT is in order to reach the overall quality objective of meeting business requirements through quality software.

Listen in as Phil breaks analyzes and breaks down the problems and then discusses strategies for implementing UAT through methods that can be adapted to each organization’s flavor of Agile.

Presenter: Philip Lew  CEO at XBOSoft, as a corporate executive, development manager, product manager, and software engineer, Philip has managed teams to tackle broken processes, develop solutions to difficult problems, and coached others be leaders, managers and experts. Leveraging his academic background in operations research, industrial engineering, and computer science combined with hands-on work experience with programming, predictive modeling, and algorithm development he works with clients and colleagues around the world to improve their software processes. Philip also speaks internationally on a broad range of technical and management issues that currently challenge the software engineering community.

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User Acceptance Testing In Agile Environment

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Live Webinar August 10th, 2018 – 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Whether your project is agile or not, it is critical that you practice good requirement and/or user story management.

Requirements and user stories do not just exist by themselves. Instead, they are linked to other artifacts such as test cases and test sets, scenarios and/or acceptance criteria, code and design components, tasks, risks, and actions.

Requirements and user stories also change during the course of a project and over the lifecycle of an application.

Some requirements or user stories originate from user requests, some evolve from bug reports or issues, and some are even enhancements to existing functionalities. A good requirement/user story management tool must support all these aspects of features.

This webinar will demonstrate how the requirement / user story component of Rommana ALM supports all these aspects and more.

The intent is to help you understand true requirement and user story management so that you can make an informed decision regarding tool selection and tool adoption.

If you are already using a tool to manage your requirements and/or user stories, this webinar should help you customize your tool to support all these aspects.

Presenter: Dr. Magdy Hanna PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His highly rated seminars in various topics over the last thirty-five years have spanned various aspects and capacities of software projects and processes.

He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of IIST, now the Bug Free Zone.

Dr. Hanna is Founder, CEO, and Chairman of several organizations:

• International Institute for Software Testing,
  • leading educational and professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software test and quality professionals around the world.
  • Dr. Hanna serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board for the Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) and the Certified Test Manager (CTM) credentials.
• International Institute for Software Process
  • leading professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software process improvement professionals around the world.
  • Dr. Hanna serves as the Chairman of Advisory Board for the International Software Process Improvement Certification (ISPIC).
• International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing,
• International Conference on Software Process Improvement,
• RommanaTM Software
  • In this role, he is the Chief Architect of an Integrated Software Lifecycle Management System.

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Effective Requirement Management
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