Live Webinar October 25th, 2012 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code: 161003 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

Test environment vary based on release cycles

Sometimes you are releasing numerous products in a short time frame; sometimes your releases are sparse. While you are in crunch time, so is your hardware.

• Do you have enough test systems to support your testing needs?
• What do you do if your test environment needs exceed your hardware capacity?
• And what do you do with the excess hardware while you’re in a lul?

This Live Web Workshop will help answer these questions using Windows Azure and TFS 2012.

We’ll discuss and demonstrate how you can easily create test environments in the cloud, wire them up for use with TFS, and then tear them down when they’re no longer needed. Come join Imaginet for this free Live Web Workshop! ”

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 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’

Please Note: In order to attend the webinar series attendees will need to have a Windows Live ID. A link to set up this ID is located on the registration site. Please do this prior to the session

Click to register for On-Demand Test Environments

Live Webinar October 15th, 2012, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing or at least understand the basics. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test. How can you test dependencies and other tangled code?

How do you get out of the death spiral of testing?

Join this webinar and learn:

1. The problems with legacy code
2. How isolation helps
3. Hand rolled mocks
4. Mocking frameworks
5. Writing effective unit tests

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Introduction to Mocking: How to Test Dependencies & Legacy Code

Another Great Category C pduOTD Opportunity

Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking:
Testing Untestable Code

Even if you’re already a unit testing ninja like Gil, this webinar is for you! – EdmontonPM

Earn 1 category C PDU with this terrific video presentation. (Category C Documentation is provided on the page with the presentation).

Everyone is welcome but it is most appropriate for people with a background in unit testing with medium to advanced skills.

Check out Gil Zilberfeld’s, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) 1 Hour Online Webinar By Typemock – Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking: Testing Untestable Code.

Future of Testing: Are You Ready for the Impact?

Live Webinar October 9th, 2012, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds

• Social Media
• Mobile communications, and …
• E-Commerce

This social media revolution and the additional flexibility provided by cloud infrastructure and the capability to process information – has been enhanced by more granular pieces of information through analytics.

This has resulted in IT getting involved increasingly in critical decision-making.

Decisions affecting revenues cannot be implemented without IT’s support. As a result, IT organizations are now expected to deliver changes to the implemented functionality, as well as new functionality within days, if not hours.

In this interactive webinar you will:

1. Explore how organizations are pursuing a more integrated testing approach to mitigate risks in introduction of new channels (such as social media and mobile communications) to increase the risk of change that customer interaction in one channel will impact another.
2. Explore the heightened importance of non-functional tests such as security testing, accessibility testing, and assessment of operational readiness.
3. Learn how QA can put to work the new tools such as cloud infrastructure and on-demand testing (Testing-as-a-Service) as options to meet demands.
4. Explore the role of new tools in the market that enable QA to pass through this paradigm shift.

In this web seminar, Manoj Narayanan (LinkedIn profile) and Murali Bandaru analyze the changes that QA organizations are making to adapt to this need for faster responsiveness. While agile is a favored response, many organizations, especially retailers, are increasingly adopting a rapid iterative approach coupled with a strong focus on shift-left testing.

Manoj and Murali conclude with a transition framework that QA organizations can adopt to facilitate a planned transformation attuned to the demands of the world of digital commerce.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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 Future of Testing: Are You Ready for the Impact?

Turn Your Organization into a Quality Assurance Center of Excellence

Live Webinar October 11th, 2012, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: StickyMinds

Many organizations have either already begun or are planning to begin implementing a quality assurance center of excellence (QA-CoE) into their IT operations. The journey through a successful QA-CoE implementation is exciting yet challenging for the organizations.

Some organizations succeed and others do not ….
So what are the successful organizations doing differently?

In this interactive webinar you will:

1. Learn how to objectively set the goals and objectives of a QA-CoE
2. Understand how risk is mitigated through the QA-CoE transformation approach
3. Discover the critical success factors and how to overcome the challenges

In this hands-on workshop Gaurav Kapoor shares the journey of a large corporation undertaking the QA-CoE transformation.

Gaurav discusses the key business objectives, expectations, and approaches undertaken throughout this process—as well as the challenges they encountered. Lastly, Gaurav will share some of the lessons he has learned along the way that helped QA-CoE transformations to succeed. He discusses what to avoid and the critical factors that can make the difference between success and failure.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 8 – Quality

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Perform Quality Control

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 Turn Your Organization into a Quality Assurance Center of Excellence

Live Webinar September 27th, 2012, 11:00 pm – 12:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

According to Forrester Research, “It’s time for software development professionals to stop sitting on the fence where Agile is concerned.”

With so many failed efforts, IT managers and developer leaders are reluctant to try again and build an Agile development process
without an effective plan and processes.

In this webinar, Typemock’s Product Manager, Gil Zilberfeld, will provide a roadmap to building effective Agile Development Processes.

In this webinar Gil will explain:

1. How do I get started? Building an Agile Strategy
2. Scrum is not enough: XP isn’t just a version of Windows
3. Basic Communication & Feedback Practices
4. Three Times a Charm: Refactoring, Unit Tests, Continuous Integration
5. How Not to Fail: What Not To Do

Read Gil’s Blog “Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings” It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

LIKE….

Gil interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa “A Product Owners Perspective” on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 9.4 Manage 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.’

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Click to register for Step by Step Guide for Building Effective Agile Processes

Looking For Another Great Category C PDU?

Check out Gil Zilberfeld’s, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) 1 Hour Online Webinar By Typemock – Real Life Unit Testing & Mocking: Testing Untestable Code.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 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.’

Live Webinar – August 28th, 2012 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by: Enfocus Solutions
Duration: 1/2 hour 0.5 PDUs Credits: 0.5 Category C PDU- Free PDU

Enfocus Solutions Inc. CEO John Parker (LinkedIn profile) discusses the complexities of agile requirements, sharing lessons learned and best practices specific to this iterative and incremental approach to development.

The webinar covers agile requirements in large enterprises, the role of business analysts, and how user stories can be defined and elaborated using test scenarios, user conversations, and functional and nonfunctional requirements.

The 60-minute presentation is a must-attend for organizations looking to move to agile, and for product owners, scrum masters, and agile teams in organizations already using the method.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning

Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule

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 Agile for Enterprise Projects

CANCELLED – Live Webinar August 21st, 2012, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
CANCELLED – Live Webinar August 21st, 2012 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm BST
Duration:1 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Typemock

You may have already started unit testing. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test

Join this webinar and learn different methods and tools that help create unit tests that can mock dependencies.

How do you apply unit testing to code that wasn’t designed for testability and normally breaks when testing?

In this interactive webinar Typemock will:

1. Take an application
2. Add tests to it
3. Refactor the code
4. Discuss readability, and where to begin.

This is an intensive demonstration of automated testing hard-core legacy code. If you are a programming ninja, or want to truly understand the value of powerful and professional unit testing, check it out.

Presenter: Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, (LinkedIn profile, @gil_zilberfeld) Product Manager, Typemock- Gil has been writing software since childhood (Logo Turtles) and hasn’t stopped since. As the product manager at Typemock, working as part of an agile team in an agile company, creating tools for agile developers. He promotes unit testing and other design practices, down-to-earth agile methods, and some incredibly cool tools. Gil blogs at http:⁄⁄www.gilzilberfeld.com on different agile topics, including processes, communication and unit testing. He also writes at the Typemock blog and presents locally and abroad on these topics.

Read Gil’s Blog “Geek Out of Water – Gil Zilberfeld’s Ramblings” It’s full of great ‘Agile stuff’, ‘People stuff’ & Other Cool Cool Stuff!

LIKE….

Gil interviewed Lisa Crispin (LinkedIn profile, @lisacrispin ) a leading expert in the ‘Testing World’, Agile Testing Practitioner, Coach & co-author of “Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams”. Read Gil’s interview with Lisa “A Product Owners Perspective” on Lisa’s Blog or visit her website LisaCrispin.com.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 4.4 Monitor & Control Project Work
• 5.2 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 Real Life Unit Testing: Testing Hard to Test Code