Live Webinar May 20th, 2014, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hours – Up to 1.5 Category C PDUs – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

Learn How Project 2013 Can Be Integrated With Social Media In Your Organization.

BSA is a midsized technology firm that provides financial management software mainly for the public sector. They are growing rapidly and were looking for a better way to manage their implementation projects and their business at a portfolio level.

As part of their solution they wanted to ensure that their clients had remote access to view their project status without having to set up individual accounts for each client.

Pcubed implemented Project 2013 and integrated it with social media access by logging into a PWA using an authentication provider other than Windows Active Directory, such as social sites like Windows Live ID, Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo, and Twitter. Technology used SharePoint, Project Server 2013 and Microsoft Project 2013.

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Live Webinar May 6th, 2014 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)

Model-based testing (MBT) has received a lot of attention in recent years.  Still MBT is not in wide-spread use.

Based on empirical studies of testers using MBT vs. manual testing, we have concluded that one of the most important reasons is the lack of user-friendly and agile MBT tools.

The effect is that testers using MBT spend great efforts on activities that are not directly related to testing, e.g. debugging very long automatically generated test cases.

To address this problem, we have developed an approach based on a free MBT tool that helps the test engineer create and debug the initial model all the way to running test cases in less than one hour.

Once the model is in place, model changes can be done in minutes and new executable test cases can be generated instantly.

In this webinar, we will describe the results from our empirical studies on MBT vs. manual testing. We will also describe the approach and the MBT tool along with several examples of testing of NASA systems. Ater the webinar, participants will be able to download the tool for free.

Presenter:  Dr. Mikael Lindvall (LinkedIn profile)

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Live Webinar May 1st, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar May 1st, 2014 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

Did you know that dealing with a single problem employee can consume as much as 50% of his or her manager’s time?

Imagine how that reduces the manager’s effectiveness!

This is why making smart hiring decisions is one of the most important and central roles for test leads and test managers.

However, it’s also one of the hardest roles we face.

In this webinar, Rex Black, having hired dozens of testers and coached managers around the world on how to improve their hiring practices, will share some of the techniques you can use to ensure that your next hiring decision is the best one you’ve made—so far.

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

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Live Webinar April 22nd 2014, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hours Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds/Techwell

In today’s project-centric work environment, the ability to coordinate multiple projects with distributed teams, and making high-level strategic decisions based upon consolidated project progress, risk and resource usage information is critical. Project Online is a cloud based, enterprise-wide project management platform designed to meet these challenges.

Join Dux Raymond Sy PMP as he shares how you can best leverage Project Online to manage enterprise projects.

In this interactive webinar you will learn how to:

1. Build and Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) solution based on Project Online
2. Create a portfolio of projects using new and existing project plans
3. Manage and optimize project resources across the enterprise
4. Collaborate with geographically distributed project team members
5. xIntegrate existing tools like Microsoft Office, Windows, mobile devices to Project Onlinex
6. Develop relevant reports and dashboard to visualize key performance indicators

Presenter: Dux Raymond Sy is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner/PMI REP. Dux authored SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint. As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of collaborative tools with quantifiable goals. He is very much involved in the greater SharePoint community and is an event chair for SharePoint Saturday, a free community driven conference that has been held worldwide. Dux regularly writes about project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

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Live Webinar April 16th, 2014, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
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What if you could automate many tests
As an integral part of the development process?

In both agile and traditional development environments, the most common practice for automating regression tests is to script manual tests after development is done and the build is deployed.

With the Indium Sprint-Cycle Testing (SCT) approach, coupled with a powerful automation tool such as Borland Silk Portfolio, you can learn how to develop and run automated tests in parallel with developers so the regression test set is updated immediately after the build is complete.

Find out how to transform your test automation with the SCT approach:

• Identify test cases to automate—and ones to not automate
• Automate the tests in parallel with development
• Estimate the effort for test script automation
• Develop and execute automated tests during and after build process
• Reduce automation backlog and improve regression suite coverage

NOTE: Adopters of the SCT process report 30% faster test execution times, 35% reduction in regression efforts, and 60% of defects caught earlier in the development process when using Borland Silk Portfolio.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 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’

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Live Webinar Feb 18th, 2014 – 11:00 am – 12:30 Pm EDT or
Live Webinar Feb 18th, 2014 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hr Webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

The software profession is evolving rapidly, and software testing is also evolving.

• Some people talk about software and software testing as a “craft,” but are we doomed to remain in such a primitive state, like medieval swordsmith’s guilds?
• As the phrases “software engineering” and “test engineer” have long implied, can we advance to a true engineering profession. What is the history?
• What can other engineering professions teach us?
• What do other engineering professions have, and how can we go about creating analogous resources for software engineering?
• What will a true software engineering profession mean for testing?

Join Rex for this imaginative trip into one possible future, based on science and engineering facts.

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 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT presentation of Towards a True Engineering Profession

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