Project Management CoE (Centre of Excellence)’ is an initiative led by seasoned project management leaders with an objective to establish a culture of excellence in project execution. Our Services range from taking ownership of end to end Project Management to staffing for Project Management requirements. PMCoE is one stop solution for all Project management/Transformation requirements.
Do you know what it takes to build a high-IMPACT PMO?
(attend the free training for this slideshare here: http://bit.ly/2Gu1I7S)
Whether you are starting a PMO for the first time, trying to get your PMO back on track, or just want to ensure that your PMO is as high-IMPACT as possible, this presentation will get right to the heart of what actually makes a difference, where you should start, and how to accelerate your PMO performance to deliver high-IMPACT outcomes for the organization.
It’s time to stop talking about “PMO survival” and ensure that YOU and your PMO are THRIVING!
This system has been developed leveraging more than 20 years of research and application of the most important techniques that Laura has used to transform the careers of hundreds of project managers, enabling them to become an invaluable strategic asset that business leaders are fighting over.
If you would like to attend the free training on this topic, go here: http://bit.ly/2Gu1I7S
After watching this presentation, you will be prepared to leverage a set of immediately applicable techniques to help you Get. It. Done.
The processes from the PMBOK® Guide — Sixth Edition are separated into colors according to their respective knowledge areas. Only the main connections are shown in this process flow.
See related content at https://ricardo-vargas.com/pmbok6-processes-flow/
Do you know what it takes to build a high-IMPACT PMO?
(attend the free training for this slideshare here: http://bit.ly/2Gu1I7S)
Whether you are starting a PMO for the first time, trying to get your PMO back on track, or just want to ensure that your PMO is as high-IMPACT as possible, this presentation will get right to the heart of what actually makes a difference, where you should start, and how to accelerate your PMO performance to deliver high-IMPACT outcomes for the organization.
It’s time to stop talking about “PMO survival” and ensure that YOU and your PMO are THRIVING!
This system has been developed leveraging more than 20 years of research and application of the most important techniques that Laura has used to transform the careers of hundreds of project managers, enabling them to become an invaluable strategic asset that business leaders are fighting over.
If you would like to attend the free training on this topic, go here: http://bit.ly/2Gu1I7S
After watching this presentation, you will be prepared to leverage a set of immediately applicable techniques to help you Get. It. Done.
The processes from the PMBOK® Guide — Sixth Edition are separated into colors according to their respective knowledge areas. Only the main connections are shown in this process flow.
See related content at https://ricardo-vargas.com/pmbok6-processes-flow/
Portfolio Management in an Agile World - Rick AustinLeadingAgile
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. Rick Austin illustrates how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary.
Program Management Office (PMO) tools shouldn't be overly complicated or difficult to use. With PMOView, your organization can quickly mash up data sources and build custom integration points between enterprise leading products like HP PPM, ALM, and Agile Manager.
Personally designed (content + graphics design), officially accredited MoP® Foundation courseware.
MoP® (Management of Portfolios) is part of the AXELOS Global Best Practice Guidance.
Trademarks are properties of the holders, who are not affiliated with courseware author.
A Project Management Office, abbreviated to PMO, is a group or department within a business, agency or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization. The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects.
Delivered to clients in U.A.E and Africa within the past month at their request. Clients had already put in place a project methodology but now wanted support in maximising the benefits.
***** PMP® Training: https://www.edureka.co/pmp *****
This Edureka tutorial on PMP® Certification will give you a complete insight of the PMP Certification and why it is so prestigious. It will help you to learn the following topics:
1. What is PMP® Certification?
2. Why PMP® Certification?
3. Advantages of PMP Certification
4. Project Management Framework
5. PMP® Exam
Discover the right tools for your Project Management Office (PMO)Hussain Bandukwala
No matter what the domain, having the right tools at our disposal can make a significant difference.
In relevance to the PMO, it dictates the shift in our focus from management to administration.
Project/Program Managers often find themselves scrambling around to collect pertinent and accurate information to update their statuses, while Resource Managers may have to connect with several people to determine if they efficiently staffed their resources and have sufficient bench to staff upcoming initiatives.
These are some of the reasons to compel PMOs to surround themselves with the right tools. But what are the right tools? How did we end up with the not-so-right-tools? Why are the right tools so important?
Learn all this (and more) in "Discover the right tools for your Project Management Office (PMO)"
It was my pleasure delivering “Having a PMO with an agile flavor” presentation to Adelaide, South Australia PMI Chapter on March 2015, Where I discussed the following areas:
- Revisiting Basics
- Establishing your PMO using Agile techniques
- Operating an agile PMO
- Agile PMO improvement
Is your business considering building a Program Management Office (PMO)? This slide depicts the questions to ask and tasks to address to successfully define, measure, analyze, improve and control a PMO.
For more information about building a successful PMO, please see www.tbointl.com
Transforming Business Operations: Our Name is Our Mission
TBO International, with offices in Houston and San Antonio, is recognized as a firm that consistently helps improve organizational performance through our expertise, objectivity and partnering. Our success is measured by achieving our client's business targets, whether performance, economic or behavioral.
An APM event hosted by the London Branch on 17 May 2022.
Speaker: Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton
The role of PMO has changed so quickly that it’s difficult to keep up. Emma-Ruth took the delegates through the PMO journey so far, and explored what the future looks like; even in organisations where the future is now.
Resilience in a Post Covid World. Without resilience we fail to grow. Following the year we have had, this is the time to start to build skills such as resilience to support the ‘new normal’ whatever that looks like.
During this engaging and interactive presentation, Emma-Ruth explored the state of resilience in 2022. She helped you to discover why resilience appears so hard to find, and identified key focus areas for becoming resilient, as well as uncovering some practical tips that can help you to do so both as an individual and as a team; whether you are a Project Management Leader or Practitioner.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-innovative-pmo/
هذه المحاضرة بعنوان
The Next Generation PMO
كنت قد قدمتها في مؤتمر
The Big 5 Saudi
بمدينة جدة وذلك يوم 10 مارس 2019 باللغة الإنجليزية والان قمت بتسجيلها باللغة العربية
حيث تناولت المحاضرة وضع مكتب إدارة المشاريع مستقبليا في ال
Disruptive World
وما هو الدور المنوط به في ال
Digital Transformation
وبعدها تطرقت للدور المستقبلي الإضافي المتوقع أن يقوم به مكتب إدارة المشاريع كجهة مسؤولة من ال
Value Delivery
في المؤسسة بدلا عن الاكتفاء بدور ال
Administration or Support
بحيث تمكن مكاتب إدارة المشاريع من أن تقوم وتشارك بتطوير ومتابعة الخطة الاستراتيجية والاشراف على ال
Benefits Realization Management
وأن يسهم المكتب بصورة فعالة في إدارة التغيير وان يتحول تدريجيا إلى
Agile PMO
ومن ثم انتقلت لتوضيح المهارات والكفاءات المستقبلية المطلوبة للعاملين على مكاتب إدارة المشاريع المستقبلية واختتمت الحديث بتعريف ال
High Performing PMO
There is no “one size fits all” method to construction delivery. Each project faces a unique and often complex set of circumstances. That’s why McCarthy provides public owners with flexible and creative alternative delivery methods. Learn more about Design-Build-Finance, Public-Private Partnership, Job Order Contracting, Integrated Project Delivery, Design-Assist and Construction Management-at-Risk.
Click here for even more on construction delivery methods: www.mccarthy.com/work/delivery-methods
Portfolio Management in an Agile World - Rick AustinLeadingAgile
When organizations move to agile for software delivery, there is often tension with traditional portfolio management. Rick Austin illustrates how an organization can move from traditional portfolio management approaches to one that embraces agile software delivery. Doing so enables organizations to become predictable, improve the flow of value delivered, and pivot more quickly if necessary.
Program Management Office (PMO) tools shouldn't be overly complicated or difficult to use. With PMOView, your organization can quickly mash up data sources and build custom integration points between enterprise leading products like HP PPM, ALM, and Agile Manager.
Personally designed (content + graphics design), officially accredited MoP® Foundation courseware.
MoP® (Management of Portfolios) is part of the AXELOS Global Best Practice Guidance.
Trademarks are properties of the holders, who are not affiliated with courseware author.
A Project Management Office, abbreviated to PMO, is a group or department within a business, agency or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization. The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects.
Delivered to clients in U.A.E and Africa within the past month at their request. Clients had already put in place a project methodology but now wanted support in maximising the benefits.
***** PMP® Training: https://www.edureka.co/pmp *****
This Edureka tutorial on PMP® Certification will give you a complete insight of the PMP Certification and why it is so prestigious. It will help you to learn the following topics:
1. What is PMP® Certification?
2. Why PMP® Certification?
3. Advantages of PMP Certification
4. Project Management Framework
5. PMP® Exam
Discover the right tools for your Project Management Office (PMO)Hussain Bandukwala
No matter what the domain, having the right tools at our disposal can make a significant difference.
In relevance to the PMO, it dictates the shift in our focus from management to administration.
Project/Program Managers often find themselves scrambling around to collect pertinent and accurate information to update their statuses, while Resource Managers may have to connect with several people to determine if they efficiently staffed their resources and have sufficient bench to staff upcoming initiatives.
These are some of the reasons to compel PMOs to surround themselves with the right tools. But what are the right tools? How did we end up with the not-so-right-tools? Why are the right tools so important?
Learn all this (and more) in "Discover the right tools for your Project Management Office (PMO)"
It was my pleasure delivering “Having a PMO with an agile flavor” presentation to Adelaide, South Australia PMI Chapter on March 2015, Where I discussed the following areas:
- Revisiting Basics
- Establishing your PMO using Agile techniques
- Operating an agile PMO
- Agile PMO improvement
Is your business considering building a Program Management Office (PMO)? This slide depicts the questions to ask and tasks to address to successfully define, measure, analyze, improve and control a PMO.
For more information about building a successful PMO, please see www.tbointl.com
Transforming Business Operations: Our Name is Our Mission
TBO International, with offices in Houston and San Antonio, is recognized as a firm that consistently helps improve organizational performance through our expertise, objectivity and partnering. Our success is measured by achieving our client's business targets, whether performance, economic or behavioral.
An APM event hosted by the London Branch on 17 May 2022.
Speaker: Emma-Ruth Arnaz-Pemberton
The role of PMO has changed so quickly that it’s difficult to keep up. Emma-Ruth took the delegates through the PMO journey so far, and explored what the future looks like; even in organisations where the future is now.
Resilience in a Post Covid World. Without resilience we fail to grow. Following the year we have had, this is the time to start to build skills such as resilience to support the ‘new normal’ whatever that looks like.
During this engaging and interactive presentation, Emma-Ruth explored the state of resilience in 2022. She helped you to discover why resilience appears so hard to find, and identified key focus areas for becoming resilient, as well as uncovering some practical tips that can help you to do so both as an individual and as a team; whether you are a Project Management Leader or Practitioner.
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-innovative-pmo/
هذه المحاضرة بعنوان
The Next Generation PMO
كنت قد قدمتها في مؤتمر
The Big 5 Saudi
بمدينة جدة وذلك يوم 10 مارس 2019 باللغة الإنجليزية والان قمت بتسجيلها باللغة العربية
حيث تناولت المحاضرة وضع مكتب إدارة المشاريع مستقبليا في ال
Disruptive World
وما هو الدور المنوط به في ال
Digital Transformation
وبعدها تطرقت للدور المستقبلي الإضافي المتوقع أن يقوم به مكتب إدارة المشاريع كجهة مسؤولة من ال
Value Delivery
في المؤسسة بدلا عن الاكتفاء بدور ال
Administration or Support
بحيث تمكن مكاتب إدارة المشاريع من أن تقوم وتشارك بتطوير ومتابعة الخطة الاستراتيجية والاشراف على ال
Benefits Realization Management
وأن يسهم المكتب بصورة فعالة في إدارة التغيير وان يتحول تدريجيا إلى
Agile PMO
ومن ثم انتقلت لتوضيح المهارات والكفاءات المستقبلية المطلوبة للعاملين على مكاتب إدارة المشاريع المستقبلية واختتمت الحديث بتعريف ال
High Performing PMO
There is no “one size fits all” method to construction delivery. Each project faces a unique and often complex set of circumstances. That’s why McCarthy provides public owners with flexible and creative alternative delivery methods. Learn more about Design-Build-Finance, Public-Private Partnership, Job Order Contracting, Integrated Project Delivery, Design-Assist and Construction Management-at-Risk.
Click here for even more on construction delivery methods: www.mccarthy.com/work/delivery-methods
A Balanced Scorecard approach of step-wise refinement
from Vision to Implementation of projects can be achieved
by integrating the Balanced Scorecard approach with
Project Selection Process. This will increase the quality of
the project portfolio and improve the confidence of
business sponsors that their Investment in projects will
return benefits that they perceive to be of value.
Shift to New IT with NSM LLC Software Testing Services.
Read about the NSM LLC Application Testing Services that will helps to improve business resilience by providing solutions that integrate deep industry insights, leading technologies and future-ready processes.
Mixing testing types to improve your testing resultsPractiTest
How to mix different testing types to optimize your testing results.
Test type classifications and examples of "mix and match" practices.
Full webinar recording can be viewed here:
https://www.practitest.com/qa-learningcenter/webinars/mixing-testing-types-to-improve-your-work/
Affording college module 3 saving for collegeFloyd Saunders
The cost of college is increasing faster than almost any of expenses and student debt is a record high levels. What's the alternative? Savings and investing in the right accounts. Learn more about how you can increase the changes you can save for college expenses and afford college. Part three of our workshop. Leader's guide available if you want to present this program. contact us.
Cigniti Technologies is an Independent Software Testing Services Company, headquartered
in Irving, TX. Our test offerings include TCoE, Testing on Cloud, Enterprise Mobility
Testing, Big Data Testing, Functional, Automation, Security and Performance Testing
services. Our workforce is equally distributed between NA & India with a vision to be your
local partner. Cigniti's SMART Tools and Cloud Enabled test labs provide cost effective
solutions with early Return on Investments.
Getting Started with Financial Security Module 1 Floyd Saunders
The seminars are available to anyone including financial planners, and other professionals in the financial services industry who would like a set of the materials, participant's workbooks or the Family Financial Freedom book (discounts for volume purchases)You can now view the presentation here, order the Family Financial Freedom book from any of the ebook sites for iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Nook, Kobo reader etc. contact me at floyd.saunders@yahoo.com for a copy of the presentation or more information on how to get seminar materials.
Managed Test Services Is:
1 - Having a strategic partner manage all software testing needs of the organization.
2 - Ensuring that uniform testing standards are implemented across the organization.
3 - Managing the risk factors of testing processes centrally.
4 - Running it akin to a factory.
The 5 Critical Elements to Creating a Project Management Center of ExcellenceFlevy.com Best Practices
Original article from the Flevy business blog can be found here:
http://flevy.com/blog/the-5-critical-elements-to-creating-a-project-management-centre-of-excellence/
Creating a Project Management Centre of Excellence is the driving force that takes an organization forward to realize their project management mandate. It encompasses the process of creating a strategy for project management, re-shaping the culture to be more focused on the consistency in the management of projects and implementing a project management process.
Creating a Project Management Centre of Excellence
project_management_COEA Centre of Excellence is a business unit that has organization-wide authority. The key elements of a successful Project Management Centre of Excellence include:
Vision and Strategies
A clear vision of what it represents and the strategies to identify how it will reach this vision in the short and long term.
Competencies
The selection of resources based on project competency requirements compared to actual project resource competencies. The identification of coaching, training and other developmental activities to close any competency gap.
Culture
How to re-shape the organizational culture to be more supportive of the consistency in the management of projects.
Processes
The right processes, tools and templates that are helpful and meaningful to project managers and their teams.
Quality
The quality criteria for the project management framework, processes and documents.
1. Create the Vision and Strategies
One approach to creating a vision for the Centre of Excellence is to brainstorm ideas that focus on what the future will look like. Start by creating scenarios that describe what the Centre will be doing 5 years into the future. What are some of the things that they will be doing that reflect a successful Centre of Excellence? What will employees and customers be saying about them? How did they get there?
The outcome of this process is the creation of a vision statement for the Project Management Centre of Excellence. Determine how this vision aligns and supports the organization’s strategic direction.
The alignment of the Centre of Excellence to the goals of the organization is key to driving strategy implementation. Strategies translate this vision into reality. They close the gap between the present and the “ideal” future described in the vision scenarios. These strategies must be described clearly so that the organization understands and accepts them.
The introduction of a project management framework will provide a structured and managed approach for projects within your company.
With the right framework in place it will allow projects of all sizes and priority to be planned effectively. This ensures that at all times the cost of the project is managed while delivering quality and the right level of performance and control across project management.
هذه المحاضرة تتحدث عن مكتب إدارة المشاريع الرشيق
The Agile PMO
قمت في هذه المحاضرة بتعريف الإدارة الرشيقة للمشاريع او ال
Agile
وعرفت أيضا مكتب إدارة المشاريع
PMO
ومن ثم شرحت معني مكتب إدارة المشاريع الرشيق
Agile PMO.
بعد ذلك شرحت الأسباب التي أدت لقيام مكتب إدارة المشاريع الرشيق
Agile PMO
والفوائد الناتجة من تطبيقه في المؤسسات.
ومن ثم تطرقت للطرق الأربعة التي يمكن أن يلجأ إليها مكتب إدارة المشاريع الرشيق
Agile PMO
وذلك لجلب الرشاقة او ال
Agility
للمؤسسة التي يعمل فيها ال
PMO.
OpEx Digital Consulting - Performance Improvement at the Speed of DigitalJason Assir
This PDF goes through who we are, our areas of expertise, and how we work and deliver value to our clients. We look forward to working with you on your most difficult business challenges!
If your company needs to submit a Project Handling Proposal Template PowerPoint Presentation Slides look no further.Our researchers have analyzed thousands of proposals on this topic for effectiveness and conversion. Just download our template, add your company data and submit to your client for a positive response. http://bit.ly/377RHca
The Five Phases of Agile Maturity (Part 2): Phase 3 and 4Cprime
The journey to agile maturity is neither fast nor straightforward. What do you need to know? What challenges might you face? Which tools will best meet your organization where it's at?
Explore what you should expect to see across the five phases of Agile maturity. In part 2 of this series, we will focus on Phase 3 and 4. We'll share valuable advice about negotiating the turns, avoiding roadblocks, and enjoying the ride in your agile maturity journey. Plus, we’ll talk about the optimal tools to support you—enterprise product management software, like Atlassian Jira Align.
Learn:
- Common maturity elements of Phase 3 of agile maturity (The Scaling Agile Organization) and Phase 4 of agile maturity (The Agile Enterprise)
- Challenges you may face in your agile maturity journey and how to overcome them
- How Jira Align’s features and functionality can support scaling
This Masterclass is used to provide an introduction to the world off multi-national consulting, problem solving, client relationship skills and project management for first year post MBA Associate Consultants. We have used this introductory module and others in the series to help McKinsey, BCG, Deloitte and KPMG in Africa, China and Australia bring their new hires up to speed
A dedicated Sr. Project Manager with ability to work on complex Infrastructure projects and manager End to End program. Looking for opportunity to handle more challenging program/project. Is an able leader to handle large team, make the team work under pressure and deliver within team lines. Still maintaining the high team spirit.
14. Developing Custom Processes For IT ProjectsBhuWan Khadka
Chapter 14 of ICT Project Management based on IOE Engineering syllabus. This chapter tell us about developing IT project management methodology, moving forward with customized management processes, code of ethics, future trends etc. Provided By Project Management Sir of KU.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
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"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
3. ‘Project Management CoE (Centre of Excellence)’ is an initiative led by
seasoned project management leaders with an objective to establish a culture of
excellence in project execution.
Our leadership team comes with rich Project delivery experience , high levels of
certifications and publications in Project Management .
Our mission is to “make projects succeed in providing the required business
value”
Our Services range from taking ownership of end to end Project Management to
staffing for Project Management requirements
We can deliver a ‘ Transformed Organization’
Delivering Excellence in Project Management3
Introduction
4. PMCoE brings to the Customers the following advantages:
• Access to team of skilled Project Managers with experience in multiple Domains and
Industries
• Access to team with experience of managing many projects of varied complexity
• Access to mature Processes , Methods , Tools and Templates
• Faster speed to Market due increased success rate of Projects
• Options of Remote , Virtual & On site models
• Significant reduction in costs due remote / virtual delivery and availability of skilled
resources at Fractional /Part time or Pay by use model
• Project office support by highly experienced professionals . Resources support multiple
projects and can work on fractional or pay per use model
• Ability to meet additional requirements of resources for peak workload on short notice
• One stop solution for all Project Management / Transformation requirements
Delivering Excellence in Project Management4
Why Project Management CoE ?
5. • Help select the right vendor
• Develop contract documentation
• Complete transition
• Manage the vendor/s on client's behalf
• Make the vendor perform at peak :
• Provide special , industry , domain and PM skills on as required basis.
• Provide a large pool of skilled Project Managers with varied Industry experience
• Making skills available on fractional / pay by use model to meet additional requirements
• Recovering the troubled projects
• Managing Risks
• Provide additional skills to ensure that the projects deliver adequate business value :
• Org Change Management
• Requirement traceability and verification Matrix
• Cut over Plan
• Data Migration
• Testing/Project Office Support
Delivering Excellence in Project Management5
Client Project Manager
6. • Access a complete CIO service at an affordable cost . Critical knowledge of IT
professionals without taking on the salary commitment.
• Crucial strategic and tactical services
• Planning and execution of complete IT based business transformation from
business case preparation and alignment to business strategy , technology solution
, vendor management , org change management . We deliver a ‘Transformed
Organization ’
• More productivity, increased marketplace agility, and achievement of big-picture
corporate goals by business
• Options of pay by use services /or purchase limited hours services and pay as you
achieve results
• Industry-proven results-based methodology, tools, processes, templates and large
vendor network.
Delivering Excellence in Project Management6
Virtual CIO
7. • We offer 3 different types of services for Project Delivery
• End to End Ownership
• Be a consulting Partner
• Represent Client
• Our Leadership team have delivered many large scale projects in the following
domains
• IT services
• IT Infrastructure
• Social Sector
• We have experience in all most all Industries
Delivering Excellence in Project Management7
Project Delivery
8. • We recover troubled projects and can put them back on track
• Our leadership team has proven track record of recovering troubled projects
• Our Consultants will
• Review commitment of Key stake holders
• Validate the project is being directed towards providing envisaged business
benefits
• Confirm requirements /Scope clarity and scope change management process
• Check skills availability , Clarification on roles and responsibilities &Team
morale
• Validate schedule base lines & estimates
• Management Risks
• Intervene in any other required area
• Our consultants deploy proven methods to bring projects on track to meet the
business goals and reduce the losses to minimum possible.
Delivering Excellence in Project Management8
Troubled Project Recovery
9. • We provide expertise for setting up a Project Management Office (PMO), the critical
nerve centre of any large project or multiple projects, or even multiple PMOs.
• A PMO is designed to ensure that Project Management approach is applied to all
disciplines and functions of an organization . PMO ensures that the projects are
using the framework, methodology, and project management guidelines set by the
company
• We set up Project based infrastructure, i.e. methods, processes and tools needed to
manage execution by projects and programs, and relate this discipline and data to
the management of portfolios
• We will train or provide Skilled and experienced project management professionals
for the PMO
• Our SMEs can set a Project Portfolio Management process to help organizations
decide the priority of the projects that align with corporate strategy
• We can Build, Operate & Transfer or Run the PMO for you
Delivering Excellence in Project Management9
Setting up Project Management Office
10. Delivering Excellence in Project Management10
Project Management Maturity Assessment
When maturity lags, projects take longer, teams fail to stick to the budget, and
the quality of the end-product suffers
Level 1
Project Management
techniques do not exist and
are not used.
Beginner
Disciplined
Processes
Standard
Consistent
Processes
Predictable
Processes
Continuously
Improving
Processes
Level 2
Getting Started
Basic existence of Project Management
techniques used infrequently and
inconsistently. Techniques are in
developmental stages.
Level 3
Functional
Project Management techniques are
deployed. Project Management
culture exists in the organization .
Processes are standard and
consistent.
Level 4
Well Established
Project Management system is fully functional.
The techniques are well integrated in to the
organization and consistently used with
predictable results.
Excellent
Project Management system being practiced is
best available . Adequate resources are invested i
Feedback is used for continuous process
improvement and preemptive planning.
Level 5
Varying levels of Project
Management Capability
Project management capability
assessment is required for
progressing towards setting up
Project management culture
11. • One of the main reasons of Project failure is Poor Risk Management .
• Our trained Risk Managers follow a rigorous discipline of assessing – planning and
controlling risks
• Our risk management services will ensure that the
• Risk management plan is fully implemented, maintained, and supported.
• Risks are proactively sought in meetings and discussions and are dutifully
identified, documented, and assigned for follow-up.
• Risk tracking and reporting are timely.
• Mitigations are effective.
Delivering Excellence in Project Management11
Project Risk Management
12. • Many businesses are becoming more and more reliant on the speed their projects
can deliver . Agile methodologies have allowed these businesses to rapidly develop
new IT or product capabilities and refine them quickly to get the final product.
• Higher productivity and lower cost
• Improved employee engagement and job satisfaction
• Faster time to market Higher quality
• Improved stakeholder satisfaction
• Comprehensive build and test metrics
• Enhance code
• Our Agile consultants and help organizations/ PMO s to
transform to agile method
Delivering Excellence in Project Management12
Agile Transformation
13. • Our Transformation experts offer the following services to any organization
embarking on transformation exercise
• Business case preparation
• Organization readiness assessment
• Organization Change Management
• Business Benefits realization measurement
Delivering Excellence in Project Management13
Organization Transformation Services
14. • Our Change Management Experts will assess the likely changes and develop a
future organization design .
• We will understand the skill gaps and will carry out Training need analysis.
• Recommend types of training to imparted - Learning Labs, Classroom
trainings, Computer based simulations, Web lectures and web pages ,,
• Specify training group and quantum of training
• We will also work on Communication need analysis
• Develop a Communication Plan Stating what , by whom, when and how the
required communications are to be made
Delivering Excellence in Project Management14
Organization Change Management
Business
Strategy
Future State
Organization &
People
Process
Organizational Change Management
Information
Technology
Current
State
15. • We can validate realization of business benefits as envisaged in the business case
• The benefits could be measurable as
• Systems Sunset
• Resource Savings
• Contract Saving
• Control Points automation
• The benefits could be soft as
• Staff Efficiency
• Employee Morale
• Company Branding
• Such measurements at a significant milestone can validate the
expectations and if required can result in mid course corrections
Delivering Excellence in Project Management15
Business Benefit Realization Measurement
16. • Our Trainings are focused on making Project Managers as Project leaders, who
are keen to develop skills to manage complex Projects .
• In addition to complete range of Project Management Trainings , we also provide
following trainings
• Stakeholders’ Management
• Project Financials Management
• Building Effective Teams
• Managing Change in the organizations
• Managing Cross Cultural Global team
• Delivering large Projects in virtual / remote environments
• Conflict Management
• Negotiation Skills
• Our training delivery modules include Face to Face , Virtual and Online
Delivering Excellence in Project Management16
Trainings
17. • Our Team Members / Project Managers can be positioned to work as a PM for
your projects .
• Our staffing services include contract to hire offerings.
• Majority of our team members are PMI certified with long track record of
managing projects .
• We work with our clients to understand the requirement , develop job description
and place a suitable candidate.
• We also offer placement services for Project Managers.
Delivering Excellence in Project Management17
Staffing Services
18. • We provide Project office support
• Our Project office associates are highly experienced since they manage multiple
projects
• The support is available as full FTE as well as thru shared resources.
• Our specific support comes in
Delivering Excellence in Project Management18
Project Office Support
• Collection and collation for information /periodic status
reports
• Update to Project Plans
• Support preparation of various communications
• Custody , vetting of various supplier contract documents
• Maintenance of team rooms /documents
• Support Project accounting
• Support Project Travels
• Issue list
• Update to Risk Mitigation Plan
• Scope change process management follow up
• Maintenance of scope change management register
• Any other requirements
• We can support our clients with required templates .
• Our resource are trained to work in virtual as well as cross cultural environments
• They come with excellent communication and presentation skills
19. Deepak ( Sachdeepak Arora )
• Deepak is an expert in Program Management. He has over three decades of
_________ experience, including 18 years in managing large business transformation programs
_ and projects, three years in recruitment and selection and 12 years in aviation services.
~~~~~~~~~ He has successfully managed complex and high valued IT/SAP implementation
programs and roll outs; with team size of more than 300 resources spread across multiple
locations. He has proven acumen in leading global multi-million dollar SAP business engagements
and transformation programs in multiple domains like Finance, Procurement and HR.
• IBM certified Senior Project Manager, certified Project Management Professional and Certified SAP
Consultant. He is a certified Instructor and examiner in Project Management.
• MBA and M.Phil. in Organization behavior
• Has published and presented many papers at global forums on Project Management, Change
management and business benefits realization.
• Has served in IBM for more than 11 years and performed various leadership roles in IT based
business transformation programs.
Delivering Excellence in Project Management19
Our Leadership Team
20. Shilbhdra Mukherji
• Shil has around 25 years of management / IT consulting experience, managing large
__ ____ transformation programs for top global clients.
• An Engineer (Jadavpur University, Calcutta) did his Management course from IIM
Kolkatta and is a SAP certified consultant from SAP US. He worked in various leadership roles with
IBM (Associate Director) , PwC (Managing Consultant) CMC (Sr Consultant)
• Has extensive working experience at the CXO level with top Business Houses. Few of his clients
are :
• National : ITC, Exide, Carrier Aircon, BOC (now Linde), Haldia Petrochemicals, Areva, L&T,
TATA Metaliks, Siemens, SAIL, CEA, DVC etc ;
• 15+ International clients (some among the Top Fortune list) spread across North America,
Canada, Norway, France, Japan, Australia, Thailand.
Delivering Excellence in Project Management20
Our Leadership Team
24. Project Delivery – End to End Ownership
• We take ownership of Project Management Services and will be responsible for on time , with in budget
quality project deliverables .
• Our deliverables include
• Project Charter
• Scope and scope change management
• Project Kick off
• Detailed Project plan
• Project Organization Structure & Team charter
• Cost Management
• Schedule Management
• Communication Management
• Stake holders’ Management
• Risk Management
• Testing
• End users’ training plan
• Org change management
• Project Closure
• Business Benefits realization confirmation
25. Project Delivery – Consulting Partner
• We will partner and consult on implementing Project Management Principles .
• We will provide periodic status reviews on project status with recommendations .
• We will review the following documents /deliverables . Make recommendations on improvements
• Project Charter
• Project Kick off Plan
• Scope and scope change management Plan
• Detailed Project plan
• Project Organization Structure & Team charter
• Cost Management Plan
• Schedule Management Plan
• Communication Management Plan
• Stake holders’ Management Plan
• Risk Management Plan
• User acceptance testing
• End users’ training plan
• Org change management Plan
• Project closure plan
• Business Benefits realization measurements Plan
26. Project Delivery – ‘Represent the Owner’
• We provide services required by a client Project Manager to manage the service provider and
internal clients ( Business ) .
• We will work towards ensuring that the service provider/s or third party project manager
delivers the benefits /value as envisaged by the business .
• Our experts will represent the business to ensure that the following deliverables are provided
on time , with in budget and are of acceptable quality
• Scope & Changes in Scope
• Detailed Project plan with appropriate dependencies
• Project Organization Structure , Team charter and availability of business users
• Cost Management
• Schedule Management
• Communication Management
• Stake holders’ Management
• Risk Management
• Testing
• End users’ training
• Org change management
• Project closure
• Business Benefits realization measurements validation
27. Transformation Services- Business Case
Preparation
• Our experts will work along with client leadership in developing a business case
which will address the reason for project being taken , funding and return on
investment
• The business case will normally
• Describe the project
• Tell why the project is necessary, and why it is the best solution.
• Outline the most important benefits of the project.
• Describe Return on Investment.
• Outline the costs and major disadvantages, if any.
• Summarize the most important reasons for recommending the project.
• Our consultants will work with key stake holders and will address their perceptions
on envisaged business benefits
28. Transformation Services – Organization
Readiness Assessment
• Our experts can assess the readiness of the organization for transformation .
We can recommend required actions to bring the organization readiness to an
appropriate level to reap the required return on investment from
transformation initiative.
• Many Organization transformation initiatives failed or met with part success
since the organizations were not ready to embark such initiative.
• Our assessment methodology & tools will address both
• The softer issues like Identification of managers’ and employees’
motivations for change
• More tangible issues like readiness of business processes and availability of
sanitized data.
29. Managing Projects in virtual environments
/Delivering Remotely
• Our project managers bring in long experience of managing projects
in virtual environments
• We share the benefits of managing projects virtually with our clients.
We have experienced that virtual teams
• Quickly address customer problems, develop products, deliver
services.
• We are able to tap a more diverse pool of skills across the
organization/s.
• The project work continues 24 hours a day
• The costs are significantly brought down
• By deploying skilled resources from countries with low salary
requirements
• Bringing down travel costs.
• Bringing down facility costs .
30. Managing Projects in virtual environments
/Delivering Remotely
• Our Project Managers are trained to manage work across
distance, time, and/or organizational boundaries.
• Special attention is paid to communication and collaboration
leadership development & tools.
• We prepare a team charter and agree to communication and
collaboration methods. The team behaviors are explicitly
specified, and controlled. Cultural sensitivities are addressed
• Our Project Managers are trained to manage suppliers and
partners who may have conflicting goals and sensitized for
various organizational cultures
• We believe that virtual project team managers need to take a
different approach to managing their teams – less
management, more leadership.