Live Webinar August 2nd, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

In this session Alexander Dymo discusses what really makes Ruby and Rails applications slow, what can make them faster, and the steps you should take to optimize performance.

Presenter: Alexander Dymo (LinkedIn profile) is an entrepreneur, Y Combinator alum, software executive, free software developer; and the author of the bestselling Ruby optimization book; Ruby Performance Optimization: Why Ruby is Slow, and How to Fix It .

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 5.3 Define Scope
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 9.3 Develop Project Team

As a Category C, ‘Self Directed Learning’, activity remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder.’

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Ruby & Rails Performance Optimization

Live Webinar July 26th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

We can think of computer systems as human bodies, comprised of cells of various types.

In computer systems, these “cells” can be hardware or software, and they can behave in similar ways to cells observed in a human body.

Software units can be made with the ability to self-heal. Self-healing can be applied to almost any type of architecture but provides best results when combined with microservices; in general, the smaller software units are, the easier it is for them to self-heal, recuperate from failures, multiply, or even be destroyed if needed.

Viktor Farcic explores the practices and tools required to set up fully autonomous self-healing systems capable of both reactive recuperation from failures and proactive prediction of steps that should be taken to prevent failures before they happen.

Presenter:  Viktor Farcic  (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) Sr. Consultant CloudBees; speaks at  conferences, and is the author of The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit: Automating the Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Containerized Microservices and Test-Driven Java Development.  Viktor is passionate about microservices, continuous integration, delivery, and deployment (CI/CD), and test-driven development. HE has coded using a plethora of languages including Pascal, Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .Net suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.Net, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and more. His current favorite is Go.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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Self-Healing Systems

Live Webinar July 20th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour  Credits: 1 PDU Category B  – Free PDU
Presented By: PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)
In Cooperation With: Core Performance Concepts (Rep #1399)

Note: Please record this as a Category B Presentation – You will receive a Category B certificate from PROJECTInsight

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 June 8th, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Quality engineering (QE) is a process by which software quality is not simply “assured,” it is tested, analyzed, and improved throughout the application development lifecycle.

When implemented correctly, QE drastically shortens testing time and creates more speed, flexibility, and reliability throughout the development lifecycle.

Transitioning from QA to QE provides huge benefits to performance, but it also requires significant changes to people, processes, and tools.

Attend this web seminar to learn the practical steps required to facilitate a shift from quality assurance to quality engineering, including:

• Getting started with a QE initiative
• Evolving your processes for QE
• Adapting job roles for a QE environment

Unable to attend the live event? Just reserve your seat and you will receive instructions on how to watch it at your convenience once the archive launches.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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Shift To Quality Engineering
To Better Test, Analyze & Deliver Software

Live Webinar June 7th, 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

Don’t worry whether you are Agile, a couch potato or a CMMI Level 5 superstar:

Chat with Neil about some great practices that organizations do when they build software that works!

In this session, Neil Potter (LinkedIn profile) author of Making Process Improvement Work: A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners will talk about some great practices that organizations do when they build software that works.

Learn About:

• A summary of some great practices
• Typical life cycles used — does it matter?
  • Waterfall, Agile/Scrum, Pros/Cons
  • Doing either and making them look similar
• Quality practices:
  • Finding defects early — not relying solely on final test
• Lean practices — are you Lean or Agile?
  • Reducing waste, non-value added steps, bottle-necks
• Systematically improving:
  • Collecting, organizing and using best practices & lessons learned
  • Deploying practices (and allow resources to move between projects)
  • Training, mentoring, monitoring, auditing
• Raising the bar

Presenter:  Neil Potter (LinkedIn profile) is co-founder of The Process Group, a company formed in 1990 that consults on leadership challenges, software engineering, process improvement, Agile/Scrum, CMMI, and project management. With 28 + years of experience in software and process engineering, Neil has c0-authoredthe definitive process guides: Making Process Improvement Work for Service Organizations: A Concise Action Guide and Making Process Improvement Work: A Concise Action Guide for Software Managers and Practitioners. Neil is also a is a Certified Scrum Master, CMMI-Institute certified lead appraiser for SCAMPI appraisals, CMMI instructor (development & services) and Six Sigma Greenbelt. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Essex (UK)

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Typical (Great) Industry Software Development Practices:
Just Do Them!

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Live Webinar June 3rd, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
By: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

As an introduction to her PSQT tutorial, Isabel discusses the increasing importance of understanding the user experience.

As IT teams, our skill sets and comfort zone is often in the technical detail.

• But does a technical focus sometimes cause us to miss the big picture of what the customer and the business really needs?
• Do we focus on software quality at the expense of human and commercial factors?

“Quality in use” measures products and services looking at human, business and societal impacts.

This includes usability, accessibility, and flexibility for the customer and business, as well as commercial, human and environmental safety and freedom from risk. For the people selling, supporting or using our products, this is the beating heart of the customer experience.

• How well are people supported to efficiently and efficiently carry out their tasks?
• Is the product accessible to all the people who want to use it?
• What is the user experience?
• Are they engaged and excited?

Without these “big picture” attributes, delivered software will not be acceptable, will not keep our organisations in profit, and may not be legal.

The benefits of designing in and testing these attributes will make everyone more effective, more efficient, and increase the marketplace for our products and services.

Three key take-aways:

• Importance of focusing on stakeholders
• Quality in use as a measure of what customers require
• Balancing the big picture and the detail

After hearing the “why” of user experience in this webinar, join Isabel in San Diego at PSQT for a tutorial that will teach you the “when, where, who, what and how” of user experience testing.

Presenter: Isabel Evans (LinkedIn profile) has 30+ years experience in IT quality mgmt &  testing in the financial, communications, and software sectors. Encouraging IT teams and customers to work together, delivering results via flexible processes, Isabel is a popular speaker at software quality conferences worldwide. Isabel authored  Achieving Software Quality Through Teamwork and chapters in Agile Testing: How to Succeed in an eXtreme Testing Environment; The Testing Practitioner and Foundations of Software Testing. Isabel is a Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and Programme Secretary of the BCS SIGiST.

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Quality In Use:
Why Do We Need To Understand The User Experience?