Live Webinar September 20th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider:  Computer Aid Inc IT Metrics & Productivity Institute
(Rep 2733)

Some conditions that escalate technical debt aren’t technical.  In this webinar, Rick Brenner (LinkedIn profile)  willshow how to reduce technical debt by changing how we run our organizations, manage our teams, and shape organizational culture.

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10 Non-Technical Phenomena
That Lead To Technical Debt

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Live Webinar – September 11th 2018 7:30 am – 8:30 am EDT
Live Webinar – September 11th 2018 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM BT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Association for Project Management – APM

APM’s Real World Project Management Series

There is a current trend that says agile methods remove the need for project managers.

This webinar will show why that is not the case, but that project managers need to consider what can be taken from the methods in order to be more agile.

The presentation covers:

• Brief outline of agile methods
• What tools and techniques project and programme managers found most useful
• Common ways to adapt and blend agile methods if full scale adoption isn’t feasible
• What not to do!

Susan is a practitioner herself, so her presentation will be grounded in practical findings which attendees can instantly implement across their projects. Susan will also describe materials which will continue to support those who adapt agile in their day to day life.

Presenter: Susan Clarke (LinkedIn profile) is passionate about supporting the next generation of IT PMs and  has been a member of the APM NW committee for several years. She is the author of research papers on agile development and project management, including APM white papers on the practical adoption of agile and scaled agile methodologies.

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How To Be Agile A Way Of Thinking More Than A Method

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Live Webinar September 6th, 2017 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider:  Modern Analyst

We often hear comments like “There is no BA role on Agile projects, but since they interface with business stakeholders, they can fulfill the product owners (PO) role. Or “We don’t need requirements or project management on Agile projects.” Or BAs facilitate, so they should be the scrum masters.” Or a large part of the BA’s role is to document requirements and that’s not needed in Agile. There are so many myths swirling around related to roles on Agile projects that’s it’s difficult to tell fact from fiction.

Sort through these myths & explanations:

• Why grains of truth about Agile projects become myths
• Why when both business analysis is needed on Agile projects
• The difference between the roles of BA and PM and the work of business analysis and project management
• The difference between a BA and a PO
• The BA role on large Agile projects

• Myths relating to the Agile Manifesto, leadership styles, requirements, and testing on Agile projects
• Where we fit in on Agile projects
• How we can provide value as organizations adopt Agile

Presenter: Elizabeth Larson , (LinkedIn profile) PMP, CBAP CEO of Watermark Learning, Elizabeth has over 25 years of experience in business analysis, project management, training, and consulting. She is a frequent speaker at Business Analysis and Project Management conferences and co-author of the Practitioners’ Guide to Requirements Management, The Influencing Formula, and the  CBAP Certification Study Guide (2nd Edition). Elizabeth is on the team that is developing the PMI-PBA Practice Guide, was a lead contributor to the BABOK® Guide Version 2.0, Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring, PMBOK® Guide – Fourth Edition (Collect Requirements), and is the content lead for Scope Management for the PMBOK® Guide – Fifth Edition.  Elizabeth has been cited in CIO and PM Network and regularly contributes articles to BA times, Project Times, and Modern Analyst.

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BAs & PMs Are Not Needed On Agile Projects:
Or Are They?

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Online Webinar – Recorded October 9th 2017
Activity Type: Education – Online or Digital Media 1 PDU – Free
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

Note: ASPE has  Re-branded as Techtown  – TechtownASPE is an REP and attendees  will be awarded 1 PDU for this event.

Everybody knows DevOps Is About
Bringing Dev & Ops Together

But DevOps is also about understanding value, fast delivery, automation, quality, and tuning complex adaptive systems in a way that optimizes the whole.

In The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win  there are a lot of parallels drawn between the world of mass manufacturing and IT engineering. But even though it’s a fantastic book, Gene Kim and his co-authors only scratch the surface of these parallels.

If we are actually going to apply them, we need more. The total quality revolution of manufacturing offers more lessons for IT engineering teams than most of us realize…way more than the taste we get in The Phoenix Project would suggest.

Join Chris Knotts, PMP – (LinkedIn profile) and learn the lessons can be summed up in one word: Lean.

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Where’s The Lean?

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Live Webinar – August 1st 2018, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: Offered by Techtown  (REP 2161 was ASPE)

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They’re shiny. They’re new. And they’re what DevOps is all about! The cool toolsets that enable such amazing IT performance call out to us: “Download me! Install me! I’ll make your IT-life great!”

But don’t fall for their Siren Song!

While it is true that DevOps maturity requires a good toolset, it is also true that DevOps is much, much more than just implementing tools. DevOps is about people, and it is about the processes we use.

DevOps often requires us to rethink the architecture of our systems and services, even how our organization is structured. And DevOps will inevitably raise cultural challenges that no tools can address.

So, while we “automate everything we can”, we must take care about how all of these shiny new tools will work with the realities of the people, processes, architectures, organization, and culture of our IT shop.

In this webinar, Alan will take a look at some examples.

Alan Koch will cover:

• Infrastructure Configuration Management tools vs. organizational silos
• Deployment Tools vs. Change management and Release teams
• Test Automation vs. Developer/Tester relationships
• Any Tool vs. Security Team and small batch work

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DevOps Tools Are Not Magic Bullets

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Live Webinar July 20th, 2018 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: International Institute for Software Testing (IIST)

Sometimes we allow ourselves to drown in work… Mary Thorn hears it all the time: testers complaining at retrospectives to their teams that they do not have enough time to test everything.

Mary often sees testers work overtime the last week of a sprint to ensure the definition of done is accomplished.

1. Why do they do this?
2. Why do we, as testers, enable the bad behaviors of “Scrummerfall” or a lack of whole-team ownership of quality?

Mary aims to arm testers with techniques that allow them to test smarter, not harder, and enable the testers and the team to have better conversations that make it clear what they are testing in the sprint.

Most importantly, she wants you to come out of her session being able to answer the question, “What are you not going to test this sprint?”

Take home some approaches that allow you to swim, not sink, by focusing your own and your team’s efforts.

Presenter: Mary Thorn (LinkedIn profile) Mary Thorn Consulting & Chief storyteller of the book Three Pillars of Agile Quality & Testing: Achieving Balanced Results in your Journey Towards Agile Quality,  During Mary’s 20+  years of experience with healthcare, financial, and HR SaaS-based products, Mary has held director, manager- and contributor-level positions in software development organizations.  A seasoned leader and coach in agile and testing methodologies, Mary has direct experience building and leading teams through large scale agile transformations. Mary’s special expertise is a combination of testing, DevOps, and agile scaling skills that her clients find incredibly valuable.

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Help! I am Drowning In 2 Week Sprints….Please Tell Me What NOT To Test!

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