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Live Webinar April 8th, 2015 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Did you ever wonder why your colleagues sometimes look at you funny when you’re explaining your test results, or ask you strange questions like, “Why don’t you find all the bugs in testing?”

Maybe they don’t understand what you do or even why you do what you do. In this free webinar, Rex will reveal ten common misunderstandings that your fellow software professionals have about testing, and discuss ways to resolve those misunderstandings to promote better communication.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 2:00 am – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of Ten Things Managers & Developers Should Know About Testing…But Usually Don’t

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of Ten Things Managers & Developers Should Know About Testing…But Usually Don’t

Live Webinar March 25th, 2015, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

Because priorities constantly change at the business level, teams struggle to communicate changes to everyone—slowing down development and delivering business value.

SAFe is a proven process framework for scaling lean and agile across the enterprise.

Combining SAFe with the IBM DevOps approach provides a comprehensive process and tooling framework for an optimized end-to-end lifecycle.

The result is a solution that supports enterprises—from the small IT shop to the large, regulated IT environment—in addressing critical business imperatives.

In this web seminar, you’ll learn how to apply lean and agile principles with multiple teams and implement powerful DevOps tools and practices.

Learn to:

1. Eliminate waste and reduce delivery cycle time
2. Get up and running quickly with out-of-the-box infrastructure to lead a SAFe project
3. Improve agility and predictability with DevOps practices
4. Simplify change to culture and process with access to SAFe guidance

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor and Control Project Work
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 6.2 Define Activities

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 A SAFe Approach to DevOps

Live Webinar – March 16th 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Adoption of automating tests has not happened as quickly as organizations need.

As more companies move to implementing Agile Development as their software development life cycle, more features are implemented to production quicker.

This leaves less time for full regression testing of the system, but yet this still should occur. Manual testers need to transform into test automation testers as well.

Test automation professionals are largely believed to have deep knowledge of a development scripting language.

Many manual testers believe they have to learn a development language in addition to the functionality of the tool to be effective. Add to that the in-depth or SME knowledge one must have for their system under test, along with development and management support required, and it may not seem clear where to start.

Session Takeaways:

• How to look at the application differently from manual to automated testing
• How to start in automation without a programming background
• Where a manual tester should start with automation, such as test structure, object recognition and results interpretation

Join Jim Trentadue (LinkedIn profile) as he describes how to “Break Into Test Automation Without Programming Skills

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

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 How Manual Testers Can Break Into Test Automation Without Programming Skills

Live Webinar March 11th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Want To Learn When To a/b test & When To Usability Test?

In this live training, Laura Klein, author of UX for Lean Startups, explains how to combine qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in order to build better products.

Join Laura and learn a step-by-step process for using both metrics and interviewing to discover problems with your product and find effective solutions.

Presenter: Laura Klein (LinkedIn profile  @lauraklein)  author of UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design has spent years as an engineer and designer. Laura helps lean startups learn more about their customers so that they can build better products faster. Her popular design blog, Users Know, teaches product owners exactly what they need to know to do just enough research and design. Laura offers consulting and training in Lean UX for startups and large companies.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Initiating & Executing, Planning
Knowledge Areas: 10 – Communication 11 – Risk

• 11.1 Plan Risk Management
• 11.2 Identify Risks
• 11.3 Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis
• 11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• 11.5 Plan Risk Responses

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 Qualitative vs. Quantitative: Using Better Data to Improve Performance & Design

Live Webinar March 11th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Presented by: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

5 Key Software Maintenance Questions

In this webinar Ian Brown (LinkedIn profile) will examine the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) framework and apply it to software maintenance to come up with the key items you should be measuring after software is deployed.

Click to register for 5 Things You Always Wanted To Know About Software Maintenance Measurement But Were Afraid To Ask

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Live Webinar – February 19th, 2015 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour PDU Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Sponsored by: DCG – David Consulting Group (REP 3525)

Note: Although DCG is an Rep this event may not have a course number contact DCG for further information

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.

This webinar 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.

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NOTE: Calendar conflict? Register below and receive the link to the recording to view at a later time.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 9 – Human Resources

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

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 view Scaling Agile Testing Using the TMMi