Live Webinar May 27th, 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)

• Are you struggling meeting demands for quality and effective testing in your organization?
• Do you feel that there has to be a better, quicker way to get things done?
• Is your quality organization delivering effective and precise work?
• Are the processes that comprise your organization fine-tuned for excellence? Do you know the value that you are bringing to your organization?

If you don’t know or aren’t sure, this webinar is for you!

Topics Covered:

• 7 Lean Software Development Principles
• Applying lean concepts to quality assurance and testing
• Identifying Waste in quality assurance and testing
• Trimming the waste

Those of us in quality face many challenges in today’s software development world. Quality Assurance and even testing is often perceived as an extra, as overhead and generally, a cost center.

To some extent, this is true.

It is an investment in the long term and quality of your product or service in where the value can come back to you in any number of ways and most are not immediate or instant.

Quality organizations that know the effectiveness of their organization and can demonstrate value are much more successful.

This course takes a look at applying Lean principles to Quality Assurance and testing processes to see if we can eliminate waste and improve.

At the end of the Session you will have:

• Been introduced to basic lean concepts and their applicability to testing and quality assurance
• Looked at the quality assurance and testing process from a Lean perspective
• Been introduced to potential areas of waste in quality assurance and testing
• Been introduced to techniques to implement improvements for potential waste areas

Presenter: Clyneice Chaney (LinkedIn profile) holds certifications from American Society for Quality as a CQM, CQA , and as a PM with a PMP. Clyneice leads process improvement, methodology development, and reengineering projects for organizations wishing to improve their software development, testing processes, and tool implementations. She serves as an examiner for Virginia ‘s State Quality Award and is currently an instructor for the International Institute for Software Testing.  Clyneice is also an in demand keynote speaker at several Quality Assurance conferences.

Click to register for:
Trimming Down Your QA Effort
While Maintaining Quality

Live Webinar May 18th, 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

Why Implement A
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?

This session describes the purpose of the SD lifecycle and provides descriptions for the nomenclature involved. Learn where and how the SD deliverables can be applied.

Walk away with a general understanding of the SD lifecycle and the fundamentals that are associated with it.

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.

Click to register for:
Leverage the Software Development Lifecycle

Live Webinar May 4th, 2016, 8:00 am – 9:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar May 4th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Mobile apps are essential to the digital transformation of the enterprise and mobile app development is exploding, but the mobile environment and tools are in constant flux, with a new generation about to emerge.

Enterprises must adopt the appropriate tools, architectures and partners to help them scale mobile app development, or they will fall far behind their competition.

In this session Richard Marshall (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) will discuss:

• How mobile app development will evolve to address pent-up demand
• Which tools and services are essential for scaling development
• How to implement architectures that can adapt and transform

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 10 – Communications

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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’

Click to register for:
Mobile App Development: Scale Or Fail

Live Webinar April 20, 2016 – 5:30 am – 6:00 am EDT or
Live Webinar April 20, 2016 – 12:30 am – 1:00 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

In the life cycle of any project, unexpected problems and issues will always arise.

What matters most with this inevitability is the way you manage these issues, as unattended issues can threaten the success of the project, which is the last thing you want!

Tune into this live webinar to learn about:

• The issue management lifecycle
• Issue management best practices
• Issue logging
• Managing issues in SharePoint

Presenter: Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Eamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.6 Control Scope
• 6.7 Control Schedule
• 7.4 Control Costs

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’

Click to register for the 5:30 am EDT presentation:
How To Manage Project Issues With SharePoint

Click to register for the 12:30 pm EDT presentation:
How To Manage Project Issues With SharePoint

Live Webinar April 5, 2016 – 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Team members often find it hard to understand and deliver what is expected of them, and can therefore struggle to contribute to project success.

If you give team members a project site that focuses on their needs, you will empower them to contribute to the success of the project. SharePoint can be a fantastic tool to help you do this.

Learn 3 ways you can get team members to:

• Understand with a Team-focused Project Site
• Deliver with a Work Management System
• Collaborate with the Microsoft SharePoint Platform

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Eamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

Presenter: Jonathan Weisglass (LinkedIn profile) PMP, ITIL, JD, is a Customer Success Architect at BrightWork. Jonathan’s primary role is to assist organizations with the implementation of collaborative project and portfolio management software, through strategic planning, training, design, and template configuration. Jonathan brings many years ofPMO and software experience  enabling customers to efficiently implement the right processes and tools.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 10 – Communications 13 – Stakeholder

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.1 Collect Requirements
• 9.4 Manage Project Team
• 10.1 Plan Communications Management

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’

Click to register for:
3 Ways To Deliver Project Team Success
Using SharePoint

Online Webinar – Recorded June 30th 2011
Duration: 1 Hours + QA – 1 Category C Self Directed Learning PDUs
Presented by: SD Times (Software Development Times)

Note:  The current  SD times session is also sponsored by CM Crossroads and IBM but does not have a registration page link  at this time – but this may change soon – You can check here for the current webinar scheduled for March 29th, 2016 1 PM EDT.  Enjoy the recording of this presentation!

Do your software projects stumble over the deployment hurdle?

If so, you are not alone. Many software projects struggle achieving consistent deployment across their environments — from Test to UAT to Staging to Production. Successful deployments must account for differences between environments; coordinate development teams and environment owners; balance schedule pressures; and create the requisite audit trail.

When these challenges are compounded by error prone, inconsistent and inefficient manual processes, achieving a consistent deployment can seem impossible. The cost of this struggle is lost time, late breaking defects, and uncertainty.

The good news is that you do not need to choose between a careful, rigorous approach and a speedy but slapdash one. It is possible to implement a solution that provides consistency and audit trails while improving productivity for your release engineers, operations personnel, and testers.

In this webinar, we go beyond the whys of consistent automated deployments and examine best practices, helpful tools and common pitfalls encountered when seeking consistent deployments across environments.

In This Session Eric Covers:

• The pitfalls of manual deployments;
• Cultural barriers to improving deployment processes; and
• Best practices, such as self-service deployments.

Presenter: Eric Minick (LinkedIn profile) is a technical evangelist and consultant at UrbanCode. He has nine years of automation experience throughout the application lifecycle as a developer, test automation engineer, and production support engineer. Keep up with Eric’s latest insights on the UrbanCode blog.

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities
• 8.1 Plan Quality

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’

Click to register for:
Death To Manual Deployments!
Achieving Consistent Deployments Across Environments