Live Webinar Feb 12th, 2015 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm EST
Duration:1.5 hour Webcast + Q & A – Up to 1.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU
A Microsoft Event Presented by: Imaginet

What Is Your Quality Like?

Imaginet is going to show you…

• How to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and coverage of your software testing by using Microsoft’s automated coded UI testing tools.
• How to improve your overall software quality by using automated testing to increase the depth and scope of tests.
• Learn how to save valuable testing time that translates directly into cost savings.
• How to effectively leverage Microsoft’s Automated Coded UI Testing tools to make all of this happen!

Presenter: Colin Dembovsky (LinkedIn profile) is a senior ALM Consultant for Imaginet based in East London, South Africa and has been an ALM MVP since 2011. He is passionate about helping teams improve the quality of their software, and do it more efficiently. Besides consulting and training, Colin is a frequent guest speaker around the world.

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Work
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 8.2 Perform Quality Assurance

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 Deliver Higher Quality Software with Automated Coded UI Testing

Live Webinar January 27th, 2015 – 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm EST
A Microsoft Worldwide Event Presenter: Brightwork
Duration: 30 Minutes 0.5 Category C PDU – Free PDU

Do you have teams, who are new to SharePoint
Or new to formal project management?

See how SharePoint can be extended with the BrightWork Projects and Work Tracker template to provide a really simple way to manage a number of small projects in a single SharePoint site.

During this live webcast, you will see a live demonstration on how to:

1. Add projects to the Projects and Work Tracker
2. Add tasks and issues to a specific project
3. Enable team members to get a project focused view

Join Microsoft Project & Certified Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) Silver Partner, BrightWork for a series of education webcasts and Hands on Learning labs (HOL).

Presenter: Eamonn McGuinness (LinkedIn profile) CEO BrightWork has been involved in the development of commercial software products on Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange 2000 webstore, SharePoint 2001, SharePoint 2003, SharePoint 2007 and now SharePoint 2010, with the same basic product mission (process driven project management). Éamonn has been on various Microsoft SharePoint advisory councils since 2001. He has over 25 years of executive experience at various technology organizations

PDU Category C (PMBOK 5) documentation details:
Process Groups: Planning, Monitoring & Controlling
Knowledge Areas: 4 – Integration 6 – Time

• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 4.3 Direct and Manage Project Execution
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 6.6 Control Schedule
• 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 Lightning Fast Project Management On SharePoint 2013

Live Webinar – January 23 2015, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Note: Although ASPE is an REP presentations may have to be recorded as a Cat C PDU Event – Contact Traci Lester Marketing Specialist at ASPE for more information

Don’t spend so much time chasing down information! Instead of project tracking, start project managing with the Kanban board in TFS 2013.

• Kanban boards offer a way to visually manage your work.
• You can easily understand what work is in progress, understand where issues are, and spot bottlenecks.

Join Bryon Brewer (LinkedIn profile) for a live demo that will walk you through using the Kanban board as well as how to customize the board for your team!

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

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 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 Using Kanban With TFS 2013

Live Webinar January 13th, 2015, 9:00 am – 10:00 am  EST or
Live Webinar January 13th, 2015, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm  EST
Duration:1 hour Webcast – Up to 1 Category C PDU – Free PDU
Hosted By: Gartner Webinars

Application development life cycle tools are evolving to support enterprise agility and to take advantage of cloud and social computing technologies.

Learn how the decision factors in making tool selections are changing, and how DevOps is fundamentally changing the Application Development Life Cycle.

Discussion Topics:

• What new AD tools are being developed to support agile development
• How DevOps is influencing the selection of new tools and methodologies

Presenter: Nathan Wilson, Research Director (LinkedIn profile)

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
• 5.3 Define Scope
• 8.1 Plan Quality
• 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’

Click to register for Modern Application Development Life Cycle Management

Live Webinar January 6th, 2015 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EST
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly Webcasts

Just as developers use design patterns in software development, architects use well-defined architecture patterns to define the characteristics and shape of the architecture.

Using the wrong architecture pattern (or no pattern at all) can sometimes be a very costly mistake resulting in an architecture that doesn’t work. It is therefore vital that architects are aware of and understand the various architecture patterns available.

During this webcast Mark will discuss several common architecture patterns, including the traditional layered architecture, microservices architecture, space-based architecture, event-driven architecture, and microkernel architecture.

Along the way he  will show real-world examples to demonstrate how the patterns work, as well as describe the pros and cons of each pattern.

Mark will also discuss how requirements and operational aspects can drive which patterns to use. Using the right architecture pattern for your system is critical, because as we all know, once in place the architecture is very hard to change.

Presenter:  Mark Richards MSc (O’Reilly bio) is a hands-on software architect involved in the architecture, design, and implementation of Microservices Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures, and distributed systems in J2EE and other technologies. Since 1983, Mark has developed significant experience and expertise in application, integration, and enterprise architecture. He is the author of several technical books and videos, including “Software Architecture Fundamentals” (O’Reilly video), “Enterprise Messaging” (O’Reilly video), and “Java Message Service 2nd Edition” (O’Reilly book).

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

• 4.1 Develop Project Charter
• 4.2 Develop Project Management Plan
• 5.2 Collect Requirements
• 5.3 Define Scope

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 Software Architecture Patterns

Online Webinar – March 19th 2013
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU
Course Id: WS072412

Sometimes we wonder how Microsoft ever came up with SharePoint. SharePoint is the perfect enterprise integration platform and Microsoft is the perfect transactional, product-focused, marketing company. It just doesn’t fit, which is the main problem surrounding the poor adoption and use of the most powerful business application on the market, SharePoint 2010.

The reality is, for a large enterprise to gain the competitive advantage and efficiencies SharePoint can provide, it must look at HOW or better yet WHO is driving adoption.

Here is why the SharePoint BA is so critical. It isn’t about governance or basic administration. Yes, those things are important, but they are the chicken before the egg. The egg is USE!!!

We are right in the middle of the transformation of power in IT systems moving from geeks to the users, because the users are becoming geeks. SharePoint is the pinnical of user enabled IT power.

This web seminar will discuss at a high level

• The vast potential real world applications for SharePoint.
• ASPE will dig into the traditional role of a business analyst
• And they will discuss what the roles and responsibilities would be for a SharePoint business analyst

The optimal goal is to provide details on how organizations can increase the use of SharePoint in the enterprise, which will save a significant amount of money and time and lead to much quicker time to market.

Click to register for The SharePoint Business Analyst