Online Webinar – Recorded April 20th, 2017
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Application leaders must understand the trends in application platforms to choose and plan new solutions, platform technologies, cloud services, architecture directions, skills, policies and organization models – with confidence.

Informed readiness today will translate to business competitive advantage tomorrow.

Discussion Topics:

• Where current application practices and technology choices fall short
• Key trends in the evolution of platform technologies towards the scale and agility of digital business
• Trends that will challenge application leaders to “think differently”

Join Yefim V. Natis (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) and review the 3 stages of platform planning

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3 Stages Of Platform Planning:
Modernize, Innovate, Reinvent

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Online Webinar – Recorded
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media  1 PDU – Free
Provider: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Explore the fundamentals of the software testing lifecycle (STLC). In this session you will learn how and why the STLC will be instrumental in achieving project success and delivering quality.

This general overview provides descriptions of the deliverables involved in the STLC and how to apply them to your projects.

Benefits

• Gain an understanding of the scope and objectives of the software testing lifecycle (STLC)
• Learn the phases of the software testing lifecycle
• Understand the interactions and dynamics of the software testing lifecycle with the project management lifecycle and the software development lifecycle

Who should attend:

• Project managers, Portfolio managers,
• Project team members, Project Leads,
• Project sponsors & function/business unit managers,
• Subject Matter Experts, Business Analysts, Scheduling Specialists and ….
• Other business stakeholders.

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Exploring The Software Testing Lifecycle

Live Webinar – July 12th, 2017 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: SD Times (Software Development Times)

For some companies, building analytics themselves is the right decision.

For others, buying from a third party makes the most sense.

The equation seems simple. If you have a development staff then you should build yourself but if you need to get to market buying a solution might make more sense.

What Nat Venkataraman (LinkedIn profile) & Michael McLaughlin (LinkedIn profile) found in talking with thousands of prospects is that the calculus is far more complex.

In this webinar Michael & Nat will discuss:

• What questions should I ask to decide if I should build or buy?
• How does UI/UX development factor in to my decision?
• What do I give up when I build or buy?
• How does the decision impact my developers?

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Build Buy or Both: Investing In Analytics That Last

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Live Webinar – July 12, 2017 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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Course Session – Certificate Provided
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training 16 PDUs
Provider:  udemy

In this FREE 16 Hour Course  you will learn to write real, working Android applications quickly and effectively, from the ground up with 15.5 hours of video ^ articles and a course completion certificate.

 This course received a 4.4 of 5.0 Stars (on 1,426 ratings)
And has had 69,850+ students enrolled

Curriculum For This Course:

• 96 Lectures including:
  • Nuts and Bolts: The Basics of Android Programming,  Introduction, Setting Up Your System, Creating An Emulator, Writing Hello World,
  • The EditText View, Buttons And Linear Layouts, Responding To Clicks,  Debugging With DDMS And Logcat,
  • Saving/Reading  Files To/From  Internal Storage, String Resources and Localization,
  • Creating Launcher Icons, Running On Your Phone,  Saving Program Data: Preferences,  Toasts: Alerting the User,  Adding a New Activity,
  • Displaying Images with the ImageView View, Getting Touch Coordinates, Alert Dialogs, The Event-Listener (aka Observer) Pattern,
  • Creating a Database,  Adding Data /Retrieving Data from Databases, Asynchronous Tasks: Running Stuff in the Background, Verifying the Passpoints: Getting Return Values From Asynchronous Tasks,
  • Supporting Different Screen Resolutions,  Intents and Launching Activities,  Nesting ViewGroups,  Option Menus, Passing Data to Activities,  Sub-Activites,
  • Taking Photos, Saving and Displaying Photos, List Views,  Dynamically Populating Lists,
  • Formatting List Items: Custom Adapters, Using Icons in Views, Styles and Themes,  Selectors,  Relative Layouts,
  • Browsing the Gallery,  Retrieving an Image from the Gallery,  The Activity Lifecycle and Saving Data,
  • Pre-Publication Checks,  Taking Screenshots of Your App,  Signing and Exporting Your App,  Publishing Your App
• Using 3rd Party APIs
  • Action Bars /Responding to Action Bar Menu Clicks
• Communications
• Layout Techniques
• Games and Animation
• Map Applications with Android V2 API
• Appendix 1: Source Code

Instructor: John Purcell (LinkedIn profile) Software Development Trainer After being a highly sought after software developer and contractor for over 14 years John made the switch to working as a  full-time as a private software trainer. A UK resident originally from Budapest, Hungary, John worked and consulted to many companies including  CSC, Proquest, SPSS and AT&T in the UK and Netherlands.

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Learn Android 4.0 Programming In Java

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Live Webinar – June 28th, 2017 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour s 1 PDUs free
Provider: IAG Consulting (REP 2858)

Demystify a wide range of agile & traditional requirements / development methodologies!

This session looks at the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and gives prescriptive guidelines to requirements leadership looking to improve results by striking a better balance between agile and disciplined practices.

These practices are not mutually exclusive – the real issue is to look at your current circumstances and find the right balance to maximize success.

This session refocuses the agility versus discipline dialogue.

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Harmonizing Agility & Discipline

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