Live Webinar August 14th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar August 14th, 2013 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm am EDT
Duration: 1.5 Hr Webinar Credits: 1.5 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: RBCS (REP #2986)

1. How can independent test teams guide an organization to success?
2. What organizational options exist for such teams? How does independent testing fit into the software lifecycle?
3. How can we measure success for such team?

In this presentation, Rex will help you find answers to these questions and more based on his 30 years of experience.

Rex will also help you establish—or improve—your independent testing team.

Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.

inar, Rex will discuss these points and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

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 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of The Sherpas of Testing Success: Studies of Successful Independent Test Groups

Live Webinar – August 14th 2013, 8:00 am – 9:00 am EDT
Offered by: Global Knowledge UK (REP 1999)
Duration: 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU

Note: Although Global Knowledge is an REP this opportunity may not have a course number Contact Global Knowledge for further information.

Service management education has many potential objectives…certification for certifications sake, changing attitudes and culture, service improvement, personal development…the list is a long one.

What isn’t always as well understood, are the questions around which courses to sit and what modalities are available to suit my personal or organisation’s needs.

During this one hour webinar, speaker Barry Corless seeks to demystify that maelstrom and demonstrate the number of different ways to skin the cat!

Presenter: Barry Corless (LinkedIn profile) is the current Chair of the UK Chapter of the IT Service Management Forum (itSMF UK), and has been the chief examiner for the APM Group in ITIL® version 2 since 2006. He has been managing and delivering service management education and consultancy solutions since 1999. In addition to his role with Global Knowledge, he is currently ex-chair of itSMF (UK), former ITIL version 2 Chief Examiner for the APM Group, a current ITIL senior examiner and a fellow in the PrlSM Institute.

Click to register for More Than One Way To Skin A Cat

Live Webinar August 13th, 2013 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C – Free PDU
Presented by Citrix Online – GoToMeeting Corporate

Discover practical and “next-day ready” tools
That will help you focus more
On the work that truly matters.

Attend this live, interactive webinar to learn:

• How to do less Good Work and more Great Work
• How online meetings can make work more manageable
• New ways of managing the Email Monster
• A formula for converting insight into action

Presenter:  Michael Bungay Stanier (LinkedIn profile),  founder  of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less good work and more great work.  He created the eight irresistible principles of fun, a short Internet movie that has been viewed by millions of people, and his first book, Get Unstuck & Get Going… on the stuff that matters, has won a number of publishing and design awards.  His book, Do More Great Work: Stop the Busy Work and Start the Work That Matters, contains 15 practical tools to help you find, start, and sustain more great work.

Stop the busy work

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 9 – Human Resources

• 9.3 Develop 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’

Click to register for 9 Essential Work Hacks for the Time-Crunched Manager

Live Webinar August 14th 2013 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Duration:1 hour Webcast – 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Event Code:170499 A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

1. Why should your business focus on Application Lifecycle Management?
2. What benefits will you see to your overall business?
3. How does ALM impact your bottom line?

Come attend this free webinar to discover all the answers!

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work

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 Top 10 Business Benefits of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Live Webinar August 14th, 2013 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

During the first part of this exclusive webcast eventO’Reilly® Webcasts welcomes Eric Ries author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses for a fireside chat with Ash Maurya author of Running Lean to learn the story behind “Running Lean” and how the material was chosen for the book.

While running experiments is a key activity in a Lean Startup, running effective experiments that lead to breakthrough insights is still considered more art than science.

At the earliest stages of the product lifecycle, when we have relatively few customers, we struggle with making sense of seemingly small scale and qualitative customer feedback.

Even though the mechanics of running experiments are quite straightforward, most lean practitioners fail to run effective experiments.

In this webcast talk, Ash Maurya will teach you how to avoid these pitfalls and instead use a systems approach to craft the right next experiment no matter the stage of your product.

Presenters:

Ash Maurya (LinkedIn profile, @ashmaurya) is the founder of USERcycle. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, which he frequently writes about on his blog, and which turned into his newest book: Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

Eric Ries, (LinkedIn profile @ericries) entrepreneur and author of the New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has consulted to new and established companies as well as venture capital firms. In 2010, he was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School and is currently an IDEO Fellow.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Planning Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Work
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality Management
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance
• 8.3 Control 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 The Art of Lean Testing