Live Webinar September 13th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training Up to 1 PDU – Free
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Migrating capability to the cloud comes with several planning and management challenges.

• How does an organization determine the right capability to migrate and the right platform for the migration?
• What challenges do the various cloud solutions (Infrastructure vs. Platform vs. Software as a Service) present?

This session discusses the various service models and presents a case study outlining the migration activities and other implications for migrating the “same” application on each of the three cloud solution models.

Join Alene as she presents the a case study outlining the migration activities and cost implications for migrating the same application on each of the three cloud solution models.

Presenter: Arlene F. Minkiewicz (LinkedIn profile @arleneMink) Chief Scientist at Price Systems, LLC With 30 + years of experience building cost models, Arlene is a software measurement expert dedicated to finding creative solutions focused on helping make software development professionals successful. Check out her Blog on the Pricesystems Site!

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Cloud Solutions – Infrastructure, Platform or Software:
Where Should You Go?

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Live Webinar September 13th, 2016 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  3 Hours  3 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

A 3 Hour Open Collaboration Conference!

 We have frameworks and languages for creating software projects, but successful projects include the human factor—communicating with people, including a growing community of users and contributors.

Communication, collaboration, and respect are the keys to making projects work, not just within your team but also among several teams, and often across organizations and the broader world.

In this online conference, you’ll hear from three experienced open source developers and contributors as they share their tips for effective and rewarding collaboration.

Forking Successfully

Forking in the open source world means branching off into different goals and design directions.

• How do you pick a winner?
• How do you become a forking winner?

Colin Charles presents practical examples from the MariaDB world (MySQL fork), as well as lessons from other projects like LibreOffice, LibreSSL, SuiteCRM, and Jenkins.

Using Open Source Software
To Connect Cuba To The Web Via Email

Salvi Pascual details how open source software can be used to change the world.

In Cuba, 23 percent of the population can only access email—just 5 percent can access the Web without restrictions.

Salvi offers an overview of his work with a nonprofit that connects thousands of Cubans to the Web via email and explains how you can contribute.

You have a unique opportunity to learn this technology and use your skills to make a worldwide impact.

Presenter: Salvi Pascual (LinkedIn profile) is a university professor, experienced software developer, systems architect, and technology trailblazer for social good through his open source project, Apretaste. His work has an immediate and positive affect on thousands of people internationally, and he has received national recognition as a technology innovator. Salvi earned a master’s degree in computer science & continues to teach and inspire future technology creators.

Optimizing Your Project For Contribution

As open source project maintainers, we are sometimes left wondering why our projects are overlooked and rarely receive contributions. This doesn’t need to be the case.

By taking a few straightforward but deliberate steps, we can lower the barrier to entry for our projects and increase the pool of potential contributors.

Joshua Matthews covers opportunities for automation, technology choices, communication styles, language hacks, and more that will increase the visibility of your project.

Using examples drawn from a variety of open source projects, Josh presents concrete strategies to attract, encourage, and retain new contributors.

He focuses his discussion on a set of five core goals:

1. Prioritizing useful information,
2. Reducing friction,
3. Making expectations clear,
4. Responding appropriately, and
5. Following through

Presenter: Joshua Matthews (LinkedIn profile) is a platform developer at Mozilla, where he gets to write a lot of Rust code. He’s a core contributor to Firefox and Servo and a keen mentor to new contributors. Josh gleefully demolishes any barriers to entry that he comes across in open source projects.

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Open Collaboration

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Live Webinar – August 23rd 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

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Join DCG and Their partner, The Spitfire Group, for a webinar focused on how to quickly and effectively move to a mobile environment.

Creating and executing on a mobile application strategy can present challenges for businesses beyond those normally experienced with building software.  Billy McCafferty, Tech Lead and Michael Byrne (LinkedIn profile) Practice Director of The Spitfire Group will walk through their project management strategy for keeping Agile projects on track.

An overview of common technology challenges and solutions will be discussed, including responsive design, and architecting a mobile application for maximum leverage.

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• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

During the webinar, join the conversation on Twitter using #DCGwebinar.

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5 Steps To Go Mobile – Fast!

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Live Webinar August 11th, 2016, 9:00 am – 10:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Organizations have long focused on Microsoft’s IE browser and related technologies as their “standard.”

However, modern requirements such as HTML5, SaaS, BYOD, mobile and digital business mean that organizations must provide these capabilities as well as support for their legacy former standard.

With Microsoft revamping its browser strategy and dropping support for legacy, and the rise of Google Chrome and multiple browser strategies, a bimodal approach makes sense for most organizations.

Join David Mitchell Smith, VP & Gartner Fellow (Gartner bio) and take a look at Legacy And Modern Web & Browser Strategies.

Discussion Topics:

• What the modern Web is and how it is impacting enterprise IT
• Strategies enterprises can utilize to deal with requirements for legacy and modern Web

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Legacy and Modern Web & Browser Strategies

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Live Webinar – August 3rd, 2016 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm  EDT
Offered by IAG Consulting (REP 2858)
Duration 2 hour 2 PDU or  2 CDU 2 Category A – Free PDU

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

Live Webinar August 3rd, 2016 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Complex projects carry significant risk of failure. Recently, iterative (and agile) project execution methodologies have been developed to mitigate project risks and increase the chances that the final solution meets the stakeholder’s expectations and the overall business needs.

In this webinar, you will learn how iterative methods differ from tradition waterfall methods and how specific iterative practices are used to reduce the chances for project failure.

Upon completion of this webinar, you will understand how to break a project into iterations, how to pick an iteration length, how to manage iteration and project scope, and how to introduce risk mitigation practices.

In this webinar, you will learn:

• Understand the difference between sequential (waterfall) and iterative methods
• Learn how to define iterations, milestones, and releases
• Increase the chances for project success and reduce risk factors
• Contrast iterative and agile methods
• Understand best practices for iterative (and agile) project execution

Presenter: Dr. Martin Schedlbauer (LinkedIn profile) has been leading and authoring seminars and workshops in business analysis, software engineering, and project management for over twenty years. Martin, an accomplished business analysis subject matter expert, is a recognized leader in software development practices, a practicing scrum master, experienced software architect, and also serves as an advisor for several industry conferences; additionally, Martin maintains an active research agenda in agile methods, requirements analysis, and human performance modeling.

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Iterative Projects:
Practical Tips & Best Practices for Business Analysts