Live Webinar March 23rd, 2016, 8:00 am – 9:00 am  EDT or
Live Webinar March 23rd, 2016, 11:00 am – 22:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Whether you’ve got too much software or not enough, uncontrolled software costs are a drain on your IT department, consuming resources that could be better utilized elsewhere.

Setting up SAM can help IT departments identify and eliminate waste, cutting cost and reducing risk as a result.

Join Victoria Barber (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio)  to assist you with your SAM (Software Asset Management)!

Discussion Topics:

• What SAM is and (why) to do it
• What you need to do to establish SAM
• Tools and resources needed for effective SAM

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

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope

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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Fundamental Principles Of Software Asset Management

Live Webinar March 22nd, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm  EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

The Internet of Things (IoT) will impact device providers enabling the smart workplace and future business environments.

The smart workplace will aim to improve effectiveness of employees and enable them to contextually interact with connected “things.”

Initial focus for IoT implementations in the business environment will be on information sharing, communication and asset management, as well as access control, security and privacy.

This will require the integration of new connectivity technologies into devices and the creation of new vertical solutions and partnerships.

The IoT will also enable the linking of physical and digital worlds, encouraging device providers to expand or create partnerships around immersive and collaboration solutions.

In this webinar Annette Jump (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) provides recommendations to device product managers around technology changes and necessary investments areas in devices for the short term, mid-term and long term around “the smart workplace”.

Discussion Topics:

• What impact IoT will have on device providers and how it will enable the creation of smart workplace
• How the ongoing changes in connectivity landscape around IoT will impact device providers and device integration in the next 6 – 12 months
• How the ongoing changes in connectivity landscape around IoT will impact device providers and device integration in the next 6 – 12 months
• Long-term opportunities for device providers around smart workplace and IoT

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details
Process Groups: Executing
Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

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

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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Enabling Future Smart Workspaces With IoT

Live Webinar March 15th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

In today’s digital landscape, the ability to scale an application up and down based upon the transaction load makes microservices an ideal architectural style.

However, there are pros and cons with implementing this architecture, especially as it relates to the Producer Consumer design pattern.

This pattern is a classic concurrency or threading pattern that reduces coupling between the Producer and Consumer by separating identification of work with execution of work.

While this pattern allows for rapid application scaling and may look to be an ideal fit for migrating to microservices, care has to be taken when choosing the queuing model in relation to its impact on performance.

In this webcast, Asad will look into ways to optimize Java application code that uses the Producer Consumer design pattern by showcasing real-world examples from our own experience with Dynatrace server code.

You’ll walk away from this discussion with specific ideas, guidelines, and techniques you can start using right away to architect your Java applications for improved modularity.

Presenter: Asad Ali  (LinkedIn profile, O’Reilly bio) is a technical product evangelist with over 15 years of experience in OOP, databases and scripting languages. His vast expertise includes application performance for Java, .NET, containers, and mobile. Asad leads a team of technical resources for the Dynatrace application monitoring product extending and enhancing the application monitoring capabilities and assisting with large scale deployments.

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

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

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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Java-Based Microservices: Understanding Benefits & Boundaries For Your Application Structure

Live Webinar March 14th, 2016, 11:00 am – 12:00 am EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Digitalization is moving from an innovative trend to a core competency for every enterprise.

Digital is different for every enterprise, and presents unique challenges for each in terms of talent, structure, innovation and the role the CIO plays in all of these.

Join Lee Weldon (Linkedin profile, Gartner bio) For These Discussion Topics:

• The digital journey is deepening – how CIOs should respond
• How CIOs can exploit and explore the bimodal delivery platform in 2016
• How CIOs can evolve their talent platforms to overcome their greatest barriers

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

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

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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2016 CIO Agenda: Building the Digital Platform

Live Webinar Feb 26th, 2016 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C  – Free PDU
Offered by  International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Agile methods, principles and techniques are core to how many IT organizations develop and maintain software. However, even though techniques like Test-Driven Development and scrum are widely practiced, one common complaint is that it is difficult to scale these practices.

In large projects and programs, this is code for “testing gets squeezed as though it were 1999.”

Scaling Agile, in general, and Agile testing, specifically, requires having a framework to help teams, stakeholders and program managers to identify what is needed to deliver quality and value.

• The Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) is a framework for effective testing in an Agile environment.
• The TMMi is not prescriptive; rather, the model is outcome-focused.

Using such a framework to scale helps teams and organizations to make decisions that ensure that testing is not only cost efficient but also effective.

In this webinar Tom will outline the TMMi and provide a process for using environmental, technical and project context to effectively integrate testing into an Agile development environment, measuring the effectiveness of the process.

Presenter: Thomas Cagley (LinkedIn profile @TCagley) David Consulting Group Mr. Cagley is the Vice President of Consulting for The David Consulting Group and author of Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. Read Tom informative blogs about software development and management topics. Tom also edits a podcasts of essays and interviews titled Software Process and Measurement Cast The blog and podcast serve as a platform to share information with development industry and to foster a continuing dialog. Sharing and dialog is a means of paying it forward.

Do you connect on social media networks?

• DCG LinkedIn,
• DCG Twitter

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

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

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Scaling Agile Testing Using the TMMi

Live Webinar February 11th, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Webinar Duration: 1 Hour ea Credits: 1 Category A – Free PDUs
Presented by: Modern Analyst

NOTE: We have listed this as a Category A as the provider has stated that this session is ** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. ** This most likely will be a category A presentation presented by Diversified Business Communications (Rep #1811 – parent company). More Information will be available will be available at the end of the session.

In this webinar you will learn how you can manage requirements for highly complex products in 5 easy steps.

Modern Analyst will show you an innovative and collaborative approach to requirements management which can ensure your process will become simpler and more efficient for all your stakeholders.

The agenda for this event includes:

• Online Authoring allows for flow of all imported documents
• Traceability and Audit Trails – automatically know who’s behind them
• Works with any methodology or workflow
• Web-based collaboration
• Reuse data easily as all changes are automatically synced
• Test Case Management execution on a single platform
• Text, drawing and diagramming all easily expressed

** Eligible for PDUs, CDUs. **

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Requirements Management Made Simple: In Just 5 Easy Steps