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      <title>Introduction to Linux</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Introduction to Linux ]]>
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      <title>Project Management Professional Exam Prep Class</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Project Management Professional ( PMP® ) Certification is one of the world’s most in-demand certifications. Today,  PMP® Certified project managers are one of the most sort after professionals. It is recognized as the fastest growing, globally accepted professional certifications.Getting certified is not easy. That&apos;s why it is so highly regarded. But we make it demystified and set you up for success. In 4 Days, you get all the preparation necessary to Pass the PMP Exam. You will pass the PMP certification exam or you can have all your money back - that&apos;s the ProXalt Promise™!Your time is important.  ProXalt recognizes that.  We don&apos;t waste your time.  You will succeed in fulfilling your aspiration of being PMP® certified in far less time and with greater success with our 4 Day Fast Track Program.The course includes:• 35 hour on-line preparation course• 40 hours of classroom training led by our professional, PMP certified instructors• PMP application preparation assistance• PMBOK® 4th edition - the official manual of Project Management (ProXalt instructors are also contributors)• A resource kit and classroom materials• Practice exams with hundreds of questions, rationale, and exam taking tips• Full color study guides• Comprehensive online resources and access to ProXalt instructors before/during/after course• Daily meals, beverages, and snacks• and so much moreBut most important ~ your PMP success!  That&apos;s the ProXalt Promise! ]]>
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      <title>PRINCE2 Project Management</title>
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        <![CDATA[ TBC ]]>
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      <title>Software Engineering and project management / estimation classes</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Courses on the following topics: (details at http://www.processgroup.com/)• Requirements Elicitation, Writing and Analysis• Project Planning and Management• Project Estimation• Scrum• Supplier Management• Making Process Improvement Work• Inspection (Peer Reviews) • SEI Intro to CMM-Integration (development and services)• SEI CMMI Level 2 (development and services)• SEI CMMI Level 3• Doing More for Less• Measurement and Analysis• Decision Analysis and Resolution ]]>
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      <title>Proactive Software Quality Assurance™</title>
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        <![CDATA[ For many organizations, Software Quality Assurance (SQA) just means tail-end testing, catching errors right before they go out the door when they are too expensive and risky to fix.  Effective systems organizations realize SQA is not tail-end or testing executable software.  Rather SQA should be involved throughout the software process to assure that the software process in fact produces high quality, as well as catching and preventing errors early.  It’s not easy though—two-thirds of full-fledged SQA groups fail. This workshop explains the six functions SQA should perform that provide far greater value, analyzes why SQA groups so frequently have failed in IS, and presents practical approaches for successfully using SQA effectively to produce high quality systems.  Exercises reinforce learning. ]]>
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      <title>ROI Value Modeling™ for Decision Making</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Companies are demanding reliable financial measures of proposed projects’ value.  Yet, project managers often don’t know how to identify, calculate, or communicate a project’s REAL ROI™ (Return on Investment).  Traditional ROI calculations increasingly are being criticized for telling only part of the necessary story. The difficulty afflicts all types of projects but often is greatest in areas like IT, where benefits may seem intangible and frequent overruns impact estimates’ credibility.  This interactive workshop shows how to identify full-story key effects on revenue and expense variables, reliably quantify tangible and intangible costs and benefits, and convincingly communicate the business value of project investments.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to a real case. ]]>
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      <title>Test Process Measurement and Improvement</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Testing effectiveness is determined by one’s testing process—the way we do things that produces our results.  To improve test results, we must improve our testing process; and that requires meaningful, valid, and reliable objective measurement.  Defect data are the most obvious testing artifact to measure, but they must be put in context and coupled with other key factors that are critical to enabling improvement.  Not only do we tend to miss important measures, but we also often overwhelm ourselves with too many measurements.  This interactive presentation describes a minimum set of metrics that testing needs to know, ways to make those measures within appropriate contexts, and methods to analyze and report to guide improvement.  Techniques are suggested for overcoming resistance when getting started.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples. ]]>
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      <title>Managing the Test Execution Process</title>
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        <![CDATA[ This interactive workshop addresses management aspects of carrying out tests and reporting test results and test status.  Since test execution typically occupies the greatest portion of test time, it is essential to leverage limited resources to maximize defect detection and ejection.  That means isolating and reporting defects so they can be removed quickly.  It also means analyzing testing results to enable focusing economically on areas with the biggest payback.  Finally, it involves appropriate use of automated tools and other techniques to organize and handle often huge volumes of tests and test results.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice techniques with an actual case. 	This course is intended to complement the one-day Proactive Test Process Management course. ]]>
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      <title>Meaningful Software Measurement</title>
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        <![CDATA[ To know what you are doing, you must meaningfully measure the right things at the right times in the right ways.  Clearly, IT&apos;s frequent poor project results are due in large part to poor measurement.  Not only do we tend to miss important measures, but we also often overwhelm ourselves with too many measurements.  This interactive presentation describes a minimum set of metrics that IT needs to know and the context needed to make the measures meaningful.  Ways to measure effectiveness of our practices also are shown.  Techniques are suggested for overcoming resistance when getting started.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples. ]]>
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      <title>Defining and Documenting Software Processes</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Your software process is the way you do things that produces your results.  To improve your software, you must improve your software process; and first and foremost that requires accurately identifying your REAL software process, which often is not readily apparent.  Life cycle and process capability maturity models can provide guidance but frequently by themselves are not sufficient for defining your specific software process.  This interactive workshop describes how to identify and use a variety of techniques to document procedural aspects of your software process.  Moreover, it addresses the vitally important and seldom-recognized non-procedural aspects of your software process which so influence procedural effectiveness and efficiency.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples. ]]>
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      <title>Proactive Test Process Management</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Your testing process is the way testing is done in your organization and involves much more than merely procedures and paperwork, such as the people and organizational issues essential for support and success.  This interactive course describes key elements a testing process needs in order to be effective and efficient and explains how Proactive Testing™ can go well beyond traditional reactive testing to deliver higher quality systems quicker and cheaper.  Managing the testing process involves defining, monitoring, and actively guiding/adjusting how individual testing projects plan, design, organize, direct, and control testing of specific systems under test (SUT).  Techniques are shown to identify testing and necessary supportive tasks; estimate required time, effort, and resources; keep testing on track; and monitor and evaluate the testing process itself.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice techniques. ]]>
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      <title>7 Low Overhead Software Process Improvements</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Software process improvement doesn’t have to be synonymous with expensive formalized approaches, such as the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model (SEI CMM).  This interactive seminar workshop describes it along with seven alternative approaches that can provide significant software productivity and quality improvements without extensive bureaucracy or organization-wide cultural change. Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples. ]]>
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      <title>Writing Testable Software Requirements and Use Cases Workshop</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Poor software requirements are a major cause of costly rework, defects, delays, and dissatisfaction.  Of all the factors that can impact requirements, lack of clarity is the most apparent.   In turn, Testability—the ability to demonstrate that a requirement has or has not been met—is perhaps the single most effective indicator of clarity.  If one cannot define how to test that a requirement has been met, then it’s unlikely the developer will be able to tell how to meet the requirement correctly; and regardless there’s no way to confirm the requirement was met.  This interactive workshop consists largely of hands-on practice exercises writing clear and testable product/system/software/functional requirements/specifications and Use Cases. This seminar focuses on the form in which software requirements and use cases are written.As such, it complements our related book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, and our other seminars, Defining and Managing User Requirements and 21 Ways to Evaluate Requirements Aequacy, which primarily address business requirements content.   ]]>
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      <title>Credibly Estimating and Controlling Resource-Constrained Projects</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Many projects today (and virtually all IT projects) are resource-constrained, which means that who performs a task is as important to success as what the tasks are.  For instance, in IT it’s widely recognized that a few superstars routinely accomplish 10-20 times as much as the typical worker.  Traditional project management techniques, such as resource leveling, inadequately address critical resource variables.  These projects commonly also have rampant scope creep and dependence upon seat-of-the-pants techniques, all of which together cause up to 84 percent of projects to fail.  In turn, project managers often lack credibility, which they seldom recognize and which further impacts their effectiveness.  This course shows project managers how to earn credibility by defining scope that doesn’t creep and estimating/scheduling appropriate resources that can deliver required quality on time and in budget.  Using an IT example, case study exercises provide practice applying the techniques to a resource-constrained project. ]]>
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      <title>Managing Testing Projects</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Testing is a sub-project within an overall development project.  To be successful, testing needs to be managed effectively like any other project, while also addressing testing’s unique aspects, which can make it even more challenging than the already difficult job of managing a typical project.  This intensive interactive seminar workshop shows how to manage testing as a project so it provides effective testing on time and in budget.  This course also helps test managers learn to better communicate the value of their testing and negotiate for scarce time, resources, and influence.  Exercises provide practice applying the techniques and learning how to avoid common pitfalls. ]]>
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      <title>Estimating and Controlling Testing</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Unreliable estimates are a major reason managers allocate inadequate time and resources to testing.  Historically, estimating has been so weak in IT that some people simply assume it is impossible to estimate IT activities accurately. Test estimates are especially prone to problems because they often depend on other (unreliable) estimates.  In fact, though, it is possible to estimate accurately; and huge direct and indirect benefits can result. This interactive seminar describes key principles of effective estimating and how to apply them to the unique aspects of testing.  And, rather than just being a static up-front exercise, the course shows dynamic techniques that effective estimators use throughout the project to control progress as well as to refine and improve their estimates and estimating skills.  Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples. ]]>
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      <title>Reviewing Requirements and Design Adequacy (Testing Early in the Life Cycle)</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Most organizations do not know how to assure that requirements and design are accurate and complete.  At best, they use one or two weak methods which are insufficient to help prevent costly rework and up to two-thirds of the errors which traditionally plague finished systems.   This unique seminar workshop shows numerous ways to static test up-front, where payoffs are greatest.  Applying the techniques successively to a real case, participants discover that each review technique reveals additional, otherwise-overlooked defects; and finding more important issues also improves meaningful customer involvement and communication. ]]>
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      <title>Proactive User Acceptance Testing</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Projects aren’t complete until users/customers are sure the systems they depend on actually meet business requirements, work properly, and truly help them do their jobs efficiently and effectively.  However, users seldom are confident or comfortable testing system acceptability.  Project Managers and Testing professionals need to know how to guide and facilitate effective acceptance testing without usurping the user’s primary role.  This intensive interactive seminar shows what users need to know to confidently make the best use of their time planning and conducting acceptance tests that catch more defects at the traditional tail-end of development, while also contributing in appropriate ways to reducing the number of errors that get through the development process for them to catch in UAT.  Exercises give practice using practical methods and techniques. ]]>
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      <title>Proactive Testing™:  Risk-Based Test Planning and Design</title>
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        <![CDATA[ Proactive Testing™ enables you to do more effective testing in less time, while also providing the value that overcomes traditional user, manager, and developer resistance to testing.  By continually refocusing on the highest risks, and applying special techniques that spot many ordinarily-overlooked risks, Proactive Testing™ makes sure the most important testing is done in available time.  Moreover, by catching more defects earlier when they are easier to fix, and actually preventing many showstoppers and other errors, Proactive Testing™ also can cut developers’ time, effort, and aggravation.  Following establishment of core concepts, this interactive workshop shows Proactive ways to apply powerful proven structured test planning and design techniques that produce value, not busywork.  To enhance learning, participants practice each key technique in a series of exercises with various aspects of a real case fact situation. ]]>
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      <title>Making You a Leader</title>
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        <![CDATA[ We do projects to make change.  Yet, change will not occur without leadership, and leaders are rare.  Leaders make others want to do what the leader wants done.  Leaders cause ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things.  Managing is not the same as leading, and titles do not make leaders.  Seminars can teach you to manage, but they cannot teach you to be a leader.  Rather, making a leader takes special techniques--such as our personal development clinics--that can change deep-seated behaviors learned over a lifetime.   However, since clinics usually last about ten weeks, this mini-clinic was devised as a more convenient alternative.  This format places responsibility upon the participant to carry out an extended informal follow-on program after completion of the formal seminar workshop session.  During the follow-on period, the participant uses time-condensed methods that simulate the lifetime learning which makes a leader.  Therefore, commitment to carrying out these exercises is essential for successful transformation. ]]>
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