Archive for February, 2016

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Live Webinar March 2nd 2016 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Duration: 1 Hour 30 Min Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
By: Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (Rep 2733)

When projects fail, the failure to meet expectations is more often an estimation or business decision failure than a production or execution issue.

In this webinar Larry Putnam Jr. will take you through the key elements and step-by-step process for setting up an estimation center of excellence that will ensure your projects succeed.

Presenter:  Larry Putnam, Jr. (LinkedIn profile)  has 25 years of experience using the Putnam-SLIM Methodology. He has participated in hundreds of estimation and oversight service engagements, and is responsible for product management of the SLIM Suite of software measurement tools and customer care programs.

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Building An Estimation Center Of Excellence

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Top Security Trends For 2016-2017

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Live Webinar March 2nd, 2016, 1:00 pm – 2:00 am  EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

During 2015, we’ve continued to see changes in cybersecurity for organizations.

Threats are evolving, becoming increasingly sophisticated and more numerous. Traditional approaches to securing IT systems have expanded to include new requirements to meet the additional demands of operational technology and the Internet of Things.

In this webinar  Earl Perkins, (LinkedIn profile, Gartner bio) Research VP reviews the lessons learned and informs listeners how to use the past to create the future.

Discussion Topics:

  • What technology and market trends are occurring to meet the changing cybersecurity landscape
  • Which security technologies and processes have changed to accommodate the demands of digital business
  • How cybersecurity leaders in organizations can use these trends to their advantage

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

  • 4.1 Develop Project Charter
  • 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
  • 11.1 Plan Risk Management
  • 11.2 Identify Risks
  • 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’

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Top Security Trends For 2016-2017

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Live Webinar March 1st 2016 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST
Duration: 4 Hours Credits: 4 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly

 This Session Has 4 Hours Of Strategic Approaches!

This online conference dives into four key tracks from the upcoming O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference (April 10—14, New York Hilton Midtown, NY).

Join four seasoned software architects as they recount larger-than-life architectural challenges and share their strategies and solutions for dealing with them.

Covering microservices, integration architecture, reactive and its variants, security, and much more, this online conference will arm you with new strategies and practical approaches for coping with difficult real-world problems.

Zen Of Architecture

For the beginner architect, there are many options for doing pretty much anything. But for the Master architect, there are only a few.

In this information-filled session Juval will:

  • Explain his approach to large system analysis and design, using volatility to decompose a system into its comprising services.
  • Contrast it with the most common mistake in architecture: using functionality to identify services.
  • Show how to overcome:
    • the real hurdles architects face pursuing volatility-based decomposing,
    • simple and practical techniques for identifying areas of volatility,
    • common telltale signs or “smells” when your design is still functional.

Presenter: Juval Lowy (O’Reilly bio) is founder of IDesign, a master software architect specializing in system and project design and iMicrosoft’s Regional Director for the Silicon Valley. Juval is the author of COM and .NET Component Services (O’Reilly Windows) & Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus. He participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews for C#, WCF and related technologies. Juval is a frequent keynote speaker. Microsoft has ecognized Juval as a Software Legend as one of the world’s top experts and industry leaders.

Monolith To Microservices Isn’t Easy

Over 40 billion ads are served automatically each day on the AppNexus platform based on rules set up by clients through the API.

The breadth and depth of its features has caused the API to grow into a vast monolithic application.

Migrating from an application of this size to a microservices architecture presents a complex array of challenges—consistency is crucial and mishandling a client’s update can cost millions of dollars in a matter of minutes.

In this presentation, Larry will discuss the complexities of such a migration using real-world examples.

Larry will also share the open source software his team used along with the tools and processes they created to make such a change possible.

Presenter: Larry (Lawrence) Finn (LinkedIn profile) is a principal engineer at Appnexus. Studying computer science at Columbia University he spent a few years in the trenches of financial technology working on equities trading technologies. Lawrence has participated in growing the company from a fledgling startup to a technology powerhouse.

Designing A Reactive Data Platform: Challenges, Patterns & Anti-Patterns

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a tremendous surge in data volume, along with an unparalleled explosion of toolsets and solutions aimed at extracting the most value from this deluge.

Integrating these different technologies in a way that makes sense to the organization is a real challenge that has trampled many experienced engineering teams.

Alex discusses these challenges—their definition, mitigation, and potential solutions—and explains what makes a good design pattern (and what doesn’t) when architecting an integrated data platform.

Alex will cover the key architectural decisions Pluralsight made as it moved from a blank slate to a fully reactive self-service platform that is able to fulfill several business use cases.

Presenter: Alex Silva (LinkedIn profile) Chief Data Architect, Pluralsight, leads the development of the company’s data infrastructure and services. Instrumental in establishing Pluralsight’s data initiative by architecting their impressive  platform. Previously Alex was a principal data engineer at Rackspace, leading  the company’s data initiative. Alex has also held senior-level engineering positions at Walt Disney World Internet Group, Pentaho, OutStart, ESPN Emerging Technologies, and Travelatro.com.  With a reputation as a passionate & pragmatic data evangelist he is seen as a big data platform guru.

How To Make Threat Modeling Work For You

Threat modeling helps you think about what could go wrong and how to prevent it.

In building software, we either skip threat modeling for secure design or we try threat modeling but can’t figure how to connect threat models to real world development and priorities.

In this presentation, you will learn practical strategies in threat modeling for secure software design and apply risk management to deal with the threats.

Presenter: Robert Hurlbut MVP (ISC)2 CSSL  (LinkedIn profile, @RobertHurlbut) is an independent software security consultant, architect, developer, and trainer through Robert Hurlbut Consulting Services.  Robert has over 20+ years of industry experience in secure coding, software architecture, and software development and has served at times as a project manager, chief architect, and director of software development for several clients. Check out Robert’s Blog, where he shares links and other useful information.

PDU Category C documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning Executing
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 5 – Scope 6 – Time 8 – Quality

  • 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
  • 5.2 Collect Requirements
  • 5.3 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’

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Strategic Approaches To Real-World Architectural Challenges

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Live Webinar March 3rd, 2016, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By:  StickyMinds/Techwell

The Internet of Things is starting to drive everything from wearable household consumer goods and medical tech, to automotive safety and entertainment—and enterprise businesses are not far behind.

All of these products have three things in common:

  1. Internet connection,
  2. Embedded software/sensors, and …
  3. Major quality risks – many must interconnect with mobile devices and apps.

Although IoT/embedded systems testing has much in common with application testing, there are key differences you need to understand.

Embedded testing is now a key player in all things produced for enterprise and industrial IoT as product development continues to accelerate with the risk of compromising quality versus lightning speed releases.

Join this web seminar to learn how product reliability, continuity across devices/Internet services/hardware/platforms, and security are all risks that you need understand and properly mitigate so that quality isn’t compromised.

You’ll also learn:

  • The differences between embedded systems testing and traditional software testing
  • New challenges for testing teams and why software quality has never been so important
  • The test practices and techniques that work best for IoT and embedded systems
  • Which test tools are best for embedded systems

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
  • 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’

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Test Strategies & Risk Mitigation For IoT & Embedded Systems

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Online Course – With Chuck Cobb
Duration: 5 Hours
Credits: 5 Category B PDUs

Regularly $99 USD
On Sale $15 USD until Feb 27, 2016
Presented by: Udemy

Get A 5 Hour Head Start On Your PMI-ACP®!

This course introduces agile Project Management and includes a number of case studies showing how to apply this knowledge in a typical real-world situation.

This course will:

  • Help you unravel the confusion about Agile Project Management;
  • Develop a totally new perspective to see both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices in a new light
    • as complementary to each other rather than competitive
  • Learn to develop an adaptive approach to project management to blend those principles and practices together in the right proportions to fit any situation.

The course covers most of the knowledge required for PMI-ACP® certification in a very practical, real-world context.  This course provides a much deeper understanding of the principles behind the certification.

Presenter: Chuck Cobb (LinkedIn profile) is the author of the recent, best-selling book “The Project Manager’s Guide to Mastering Agile: Principles and Practices for an Adaptive Approach.”  and an Adjunct Professor at Boston University where he teaches Agile Project Management courses.  Chuck has a very pragmatic, “real world” approach to Agile. With 20+ years of hands-on program/project management experience in a broad range of industries & areas Chuck shares his passion helping project managers understand the convergence of Agile and traditional project management principles and practices. Chuck is an In-demand keynote speaker at numerous PMI, Agile, and Executive-level events.

PDU Category B (PMBOK 5) 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 B ‘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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Mastering Agile Project Management for Project Managers

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Live Webinar – February 29th 2016, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – ASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event – More information will be available at the session.

DevOps Tools …
Why Are they your lowest priority?

DevOps means a lot of things to a lot of people, and it impacts a lot of different work centers in the IT organization.

One thing not really up for debate is the fact that at some point, tooling is an inevitable part of any DevOps conversation.

However, that’s where the debate begins:

  • Which tools are best?
  • Which tools are newest?
  • Which tools are working for other organizations?
  • Do I even know which tools my own teams are using in my own organization?

There’s no doubt that tooling is a critical enabler for DevOps, and good grief…how many tools there are!

A trickier topic is how to begin approaching and selecting tools – and more importantly, how does the adoption of new tools fit into the overall strategic implementation of a DevOps practice?

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) as he delivers a speedy overview of many of the most popular tools associated with the DevOps movement and how they’re used as DevOps enablers.

Chris will also discuss the correct philosophical approach to tools, and help you understand the strategic mentality that must be in place before the first tool is ever selected.

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Critically Important DevOps Tools & Why They’re Your Lowest Priority

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