Live Webinar May 23rd, 2019 – 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  The Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )

The debate continues as to what the next generation of leaders will need to be successful. While competency models have become the established standard we use to grow and gauge leadership capability, we must also equip our leaders with the ability to successfully navigate a VUCA (volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous) world.

Current research indicates that the more “competent” our leaders get, the more likely they are to become fixated on what they’ve been good at in the past.

As a result, even successful leaders can lose sight of what they need to become good at next for continued success. Like it or not, most of what worked for past generations does not work in today’s business environment.

We have an agility gap.

This webinar will cover:

• The Three Levels of Leadership Agility
• The Character Strengths of Agile Leaders – Why These Strengths Make Us Better
• The Four Super Skills of Agile Teams – How They Are Revolutionizing the Workplace
• Putting It All Together – Assessing Leadership Agility: Developing Agility in Our Leaders and within Our Teams

Presenter: Lorraine Leahy (LinkedIn profile) Trainer, Coach, & Consultant Corporate Education Group, has 20+ years of corporate leadership experience. Lorraine has successfully navigated teams through dynamic organizational and technological changes, including three IPOs, multiple internal mergers and several acquisitions. She is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt and is certified to deliver and analyze several leadership and personality assessments, including Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Tilt 360 Coach, and Interactive Styles.

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Move Over Leadership Competencies:
Make Room For Agility

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Live Webinar May 23rd, 2019 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

In the world of software development, requirements engineering has been recognized as an important discipline for the past couple of decades.

Without proper requirements software development was bound to fail. But is this still true in the current Age of Agility?

• Requirements engineering was a natural fit in the waterfall approach.
• It was an upfront activity in the first phase of the project, the analysis phase.
  • In this stage the overall business requirements were:
    • Elicited,
    • Documented and
    • Validated,
      • And served as a contract for the remainder of the project.
• During functional design these business requirements
  • Were supplemented by user requirements and
  • Technical design added the system requirements.

Modern software development often follows agile approaches like Scrum and XP.

The role of requirements engineering is less obvious in these instances. Given that there are no distinct phases, requirements engineering continues throughout the process and may be part of every iteration.

Agile approaches are not very keen on upfront activities (‘Responding to change over Following a plan’) nor documentation (‘Working software over Comprehensive documentation’).

As a consequence, developers tend to neglect requirements engineering in agile projects. They seem to believe that requirements engineering is some old-school thing that doesn’t fit into agility.

Requirements are deemed to be the exclusive responsibility of the Product Owner which the rest of the team takes for granted. They often find out too late that this is a mistake.

Requirements engineering is an essential part of any development endeavor, irrespective of its methodology.

In every approach it should not be confined to an upfront analysis phase, but get attention throughout the lifecycle. In this webinar Hans van Loenhoud will address four common misunderstandings about requirements engineering and agility:

• Upfront is Evil
• User Stories are Enough
• Documentation is Waste
• Only Working Software Counts

Hans will also will talk about the points of engagement where professional requirements engineering fits into an agile iteration and about some techniques that can add value there.

Professional requirements engineering fits perfectly into agile principle #9 ‘Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility’. This is a principle we have learned and practiced for a long time.

 It is not Requirements Engineering or Agile,
But Requirements Engineering at Agile!

Presenter:  Hans van Loenhoud MSc (LinkedIn profile) Taraxacum; is a consultant and teacher in the Netherlands. He has been working in software development for more than 35 years, starting as a Cobol programmer and later on specialized in test and quality management. In this role, he has been teaching various ISTQB test courses and has been chair of TestNet, the Dutch association of professional software testers. In recent years, he joined IREB to build a bridge between software testing and requirements engineering.

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The BA’s Friend Or Foe?
How To Fit Requirements Engineering Into Agility

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Live Webinar May 24th, 2019 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing
(IIST – Rep 4514) – A Rommana ALM Webinar

The success of any project depends on how requirements are being managed, and how changes are being controlled through out the project.

When things get hectic and the schedule slips, it becomes crucial to get back to the customer as soon as possible with some adjustments to functionality being delivered. In fact, it is even more crucial to avoid that schedule slippage in the first place.

Most importantly, it is critical to any project manager or QA manager to provide accurate estimates for each feature to be delivered, with accurate time frame when it will be delivered.

Agile projects also must have better control over increments to make sure specific functionality is delivered at the right time.

In this presentation, Dr. Magdy Hanna will show how Feature-Based Project Management™ adopted by Rommana ALM sets a new standard for managing software projects.

Some of the features that will be discussed in this presentation are:

Presenter: Dr. Magdy Hanna PhD (LinkedIn profile) is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His highly rated seminars in various topics over the last thirty-five years have spanned various aspects and capacities of software projects and processes.

He has trained over 50,000 professionals around the world over the last 20 years. As a professor of Software Engineering at the University of St. Thomas , he taught graduate courses on several software engineering topics with emphasis on practical software quality techniques.

Dr. Hanna developed new approaches and methods in software engineering including the Scenario-Based Development and Testing (SBDT), Requirement-Based Project Management (RBPM), Software Quality Engineering Methodology (SQEngineer), the Unified Data Model (UDM), and the Data-Driven Object Model ( DOM ). Dr. Hanna and his instructors conduct hundreds of free online webinars each year.

Dr. Hanna also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Software Test Professionals, a publication of IIST, now the Bug Free Zone.

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Feature-Based Project Management
For Agile & Non-Agile Projects

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Live Webinar May 22nd, 2019, 10:00 am – 11:00 am EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Gartner Webinars

Gartner Answers Your Questions

Digital business demands agility by IT leaders and their teams, and that calls for a shift from project management to product management.

What exactly does this shift entail, and more importantly, how do we get there?

In this webinar, Gartner application strategy expert Bill Swanton, (LinkedIn profile) Gartner VP Distinguished Analyst; answers these two major questions and the most pressing questions you and your peers are asking as you make this mandatory shift in IT management.

Discussion Topics:

• The difference between project and product management
• How you can ensure your senior management and business colleagues commit to this shift
• How project managers can seamlessly become product managers

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The Shift To Product Management

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