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Metrics Imperative: Why Organizations Need Metrics to Plan, Build & Run Services
Join us for this webcast as Eric Feldman, Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager, CA Technologies highlights what you need to know about using metrics to plan, build, and run services, and why this is important for any IT environment. Learn how different industries use metrics to measure business capacity as well as practical tips and tricks to identify the cost of providing services to enable the business to understand their own consumption rates.
Other topics will include:
• IT Financial Management industry trends
• What is required to provide a working cost model
• Review standard cost allocation methods
• Practical steps and definitions for providing financial insight and transparency
Jan 17 2013
58 mins
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Eric Feldman, Sr. Principal Product Marketing Manager, CA Technologies
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Test Case Optimization for HP ALM
Huw Price, Vice President, CA Technologies and Jonathon Wright, Director, Hitachi Consulting
Oct 8 2015
49 mins
How good are your current test cases? How much coverage do they provide, and how do you know? And do your testers have the data they need, when they need it?
In this webcast, we will discuss ways to:
•create the optimum set of test cases, by importing requirements and existing tests from HP ALM, turning them into crystal clear requirements using visual flow charts and related tools
•find or synthetically create the right test data, linking them with expected results and directly to each test cases
•automate test execution where tests are automatically updated each time the requirements change, so you can eliminate testing bottlenecks.
Learn how you can optimize your HP ALM investment - with the smallest test cases for maximum coverage, and with the right test data - to get you on your way to a faster, better delivery of high quality applications to market.
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Using Data Security to address HIPAA and HITECH Regulations
Derek Tumulak, Vormetric VP of Product Management and Tricia Pattee, HOSTING Product Manager
Oct 8 2015
38 mins
Learn how data encryption and encryption key management address compliance for healthcare providers and payers. Join Derek Tumulak, VP Product Management at Vormetric, and Tricia Pattee, HOSTING Product Manager as they discuss how HIPAA/HITECH regulations impact electronic protected health information (PHI) and best practices to safeguard sensitive patient data.
Discover how:
• HIPAA and HITECH regulatory mandates impact data security for healthcare institutions
• Strong encryption and policy-based access controls provide a separation of duties between data security and system administrators
• Secure key management and policy management ensure consistency in applying policies and encryption keys to both structured and unstructured data
• Rapid implementation is achieved because encryption is transparent to users, applications, databases and storage systems
• The HOSTING and Vormetric cloud solution can satisfy HIPAA and HITECH compliance requirements in the cloud
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Subversion High Availability
Doug Robinson
Oct 8 2015
55 mins
What does "high availability" mean in practical terms? This webinar will detail what it takes to make your Subversion deployment highly available, including what you'll need and some of the trade-offs to expect.
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Food Safety, Hygienic Design, Cleanability...
Bürkert, supported by EHEDG members from Diversey-Sealed Air & Cargill
Oct 8 2015
57 mins
Hygienic design, regulations & compliances are increasing dramatically in the Food & Beverage market. Consequently, the questions raised are: how can you ensure food safety? How does Hygienic Design support the cleanability & Total Cost of Ownership of your plant? And with a practical example: What does a perfect flowmeter for liquids look like?
As well as speakers from Bürkert, this webinar features presentations from Hein Timmerman of Diversey-Sealed Air & Patrick Wouters of Cargill. Both are members of the European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group, EHEDG.
Patrick will discuss Cargill's overall goal to provide high quality, safe food, every time, everywhere; to this end, hygienic design is an important pre-requisite. This accounts for the choice of flow meters. Although hygienic design is a critical element, it is more important to have a correct measurement of the flow. This control point is of utmost importance, to ensure that specified functionality is achieved & food safety & product quality is ensured.
Hein will discuss Sealed Air's Value Added Services on cleaning applications & cleaning validations, which includes remote monitoring tools & software platforms to support their end customers' requirements for food safety & Total Cost of Ownership.
Bürkert's John van Loon will discuss their new technology, FLOWave. This answers the hygiene issues other systems could face, by employing surface acoustic waves in a stainless steel tube. As such FLOWave allows a flow measurement of liquids without any parts within the tube. Current methods in industrial flow measurement are mainly based on moving parts like paddle wheels or rigid fixtures such as a bluff body in the measurement tube. These flow metering systems have their specific weaknesses, limiting their range of applications. The measuring task must be fulfilled, reliably, throughout the entire life cycle of the device. Also, the daily operative handling effort should remain within reasonable limits.
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Tame the new style of app dev and testing for the "Wild West" of mobile
Genefa Murphy
Oct 7 2015
27 mins
In 2011 Mark Andreessen stated "software is eating the world." Fast-forward to 2015, and it's mobility eating the world. Today's mobile applications ignite business innovation and customer engagement. Success means transforming IT while engaging the business in mobile. Join HP software ADM, and see the latest App Delivery Management innovations. Explore a fast path to mobile software innovation and time to market. Learn how to deliver amazing mobile apps with confidence now.
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Data Breaches 2015: This Time It's More Personal
Jason Hart, CTO of Data Protection, Encryption Products - Gemalto
Oct 7 2015
46 mins
Last year, hackers targeted retail companies and their POS systems to steal vast amounts of credit card and financial data. This year, things have changed as cyber criminals are now going after identities, making data breaches much more personal. While credit cards can be easily replaced, personal identities cannot. This webinar looks at the major data breach trends in 2015. Who is doing the hacking, how they are doing it, and what industries are being targeted most. In addition, listeners can get a new understanding of how to approach to data security and "Secure the Breach".
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Financial Services Extensions with SAP HANA Cloud Platform
George Asgari, Architecture & Tech Strategy, SAP and Thorsten Leiduck, VP ISV Ecosystem, SAP
Oct 6 2015
72 mins
The SAP HANA Cloud Platform is a platform-as-a-service offering that allows SAP's partners to build, deploy and operate applications in an open and standards-based cloud environment.. It is an in-memory cloud platform especially designed for today's increasingly networked, mobile, social, and data-driven world.
In this session we will outline the market opportunity for partners in SAP's Financial Services industries, describe how to get started with the SAP HANA Cloud Platform and answer participants' questions.
•SAP HANA Cloud Platform Overview
•Market opportunity
•Use cases for Financial Services
•How to get started
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Assurer la sécurité dans un contexte de migration vers le Cloud
Nicolas Massé, Senior Consultant chez CA Technologies
Oct 6 2015
33 mins
De plus en plus d'entreprises se lancent dans un vaste projet de migration de leurs applications et services dans le Cloud. Mais ces applications qui étaient auparavant protégées on-premise sont maintenant exposées aux menaces sur internet.
Pour autant, il n'est pas opportun de remettre en question la pertinences de ces projets, il faut être capable de proposer le même niveau de sécurité, que l'application soit on-premise ou dans le Cloud.
Le 6 octobre 2015 à 11h00, rejoignez Nicolas Massé, Senior Consultant chez CA Technologies, pour découvrir comment l'offre Sécurité & API de CA peut aider votre entreprise à accompagner ses projets de migration tout en assurant une sécurité optimale.
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Safeguarding PCI Data in the Cloud
Imam Sheikh, Vormetric Director of Product Management and Tricia Pattee, HOSTING Product Manager
Oct 1 2015
52 mins
Learn how to take control of your data by using advanced encryption, centralized key management and cutting edge access controls and policies. In this session, Imam Sheikh, Dir. Product Management at Vormetric, and Tricia Pattee, HOSTING Product Manager will discuss how to proactively address PCI Compliance in the cloud, protect intellectual property and comply with data privacy and system integrity regulations. Join this informative webinar to learn about HOSTING and Vormetric data encryption security solutions and best practices that have helped leading Fortune 500 businesses protect their sensitive data across their private, public and hybrid cloud environments!
What you'll learn:
• How data encryption helps prevent data breaches
• How to address PCI compliance requirements in the cloud
• How to safeguard cardholder information that is stored in a variety of different databases and versions
• The HOSTING and Vormetric approach to securing data in motion and at rest
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Maximize SAP performance and availability
CA Technologies
Oct 1 2015
56 mins
See how CA manages and monitors our own CA SAP environment
SAP applications and the business processes they enable often represent the very core of your business. Customers, partners, and employees expect availability, responsiveness and secure access, while the CEO expects that budget objectives will be met and efficiencies exploited to improve the bottom line. CA Technologies provides a robust portfolio of SAP certified IT management solutions which help reduce the cost and risk associated with delivering your SAP enabled business processes, while helping to enable the service levels needed for more optimal business operations.
In this session you'll learn:
• The business drivers, technical challenges and importance of SAP in the daily works of CA
• How CA manages its own SAP implementation with CA APM solutions
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Transforming Value: Implementing PPM for the Organization You Have
Jan 12 2016
6:00 pm
60 mins
Mark Mullaly of ProjectManagement.com
Implementing PPM organizationally isn't about defining the structure you need. Effect PPM is about making it work in the structure that you already have. The focus of PPM is about the envisioning, evaluating and delivery of effective value. Value gets delivered at the front-line of the organization, and that is where PPM needs to best play a role.
Too many PPM implementations assume that PPM is focused on only one part of the organization, or on one type of projects. Worse, there is often a presumption that to implement PPM requires organizational restructuring and the creation of new organizations, roles and processes.
The most effective organizations leverage PPM to enable making and delivering on their strategic priorities. Success is not about structuring the organization in order to adopt PPM, it's PPM serving the needs of the organization. In this presentation, Mark Mullaly highlights the strategies, approaches and principles necessary to bring your strategy to life and ensure it delivers value. He defines what it takes to realize success in the organization that you have today. You'll get practical, pragmatic insight about harnessing PPM as an approach that serves your requirements, not one that drives your processes.
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How IT Can Make The Case: Selling PPM As An Organizational Approach
Dec 8 2015
6:00 pm
60 mins
Mark Mullaly of ProjectManagement.com
You have seen the value of PPM. You understand its promise, and you embrace its principles. You endeavor to deliver the best possible value to your customers, and PPM is an essential tool to help you do that.
Yet if PPM is only being used within IT, it is only living up to a fraction of its potential. While PPM has helped IT organizations get control of their resources and priorities, it is often seen to be focused on solving IT's problems, not the organization's. It doesn't have to be that way. But making the case for PPM means you need to demonstrate what it can do for the organization as a whole, not just what it does for you.
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly guides you through making the case for PPM as a tool for the whole organization. If you are an IT executive that values PPM but struggles to communicate that value to the rest of the organization, this is the presentation for you. In it we'll guide you through building the case for change in adopting PPM organizationally. You'll explore how to present PPM as a tool for collaboration and cooperation, not just command and control.
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Resource Management & Planning for Successful Clinical Trials
Nov 11 2015
6:00 pm
60 mins
Rick Morris, President of R2 Consulting & Edward Davis, Director of Advisory & Solutions at Kforce Inc.
Clinical Trial planning and resource management can be one of the most complex management challenges facing life sciences organizations and CROs. Often these organizations are managing hundreds of studies across thousands of sites and investigators making it extremely difficult to understand how and where to deploy costly clinical resources. With the variability of the studies and the massive competition in the industry, finding a solution to understand how and where all clinical resources are being utilized and a solution with the ability to perform predictive analysis on this information to improve site and investigator selection can give companies a competitive edge.
CA PPM for Clinical Research Planning from R2 Consulting gives you all of the tools needed to perform predictive analysis, plan and manage resource utilization, lower costs on expenses, and gather valuable information to assist in recruitment planning for sites and investigators.
Join us for a webinar on Tuesday, 10/13 to learn how several life sciences and Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) have been able to leverage CA PPM for Clinical Research Planning to lower the complexity associated with clinical trial design resulting in reduced costs and more effective clinical trial management.
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How Portfolio Management Aligns with Scaled Agile
Nov 4 2015
6:00 pm
60 mins
Andy Jordan of ProjectManagement.com
As Agile has gone from acceptance to leadership in project execution for many organizations, it is only natural that those organizations look to implement Agile philosophies at the strategy level. Organizations must now learn to harness the power of their Agile teams to drive delivery of the right products, applications and features at the right time.
In this webinar, Andy Jordan will provide insights on how the business is scaling agile across their organization. Learn how businesses can set strategic guidance and create organization alignment from strategy to product to delivery, including:
•Prioritizing portfolio elements using Agile principles
•Balancing portfolio needs with financial restrictions in an Agile world
•Ensuring Agile teams are delivering optimal results for their work
•Communicating Agile approaches to the organization in ways they can understand and leverage
This webinar will challenge your thinking of portfolio definition and execution, register now to ensure you are able to effectively and efficiently add Agile to your annual planning processes.
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Put Your Application Portfolio Management Strategic Initiatives into Practice
Oct 28 2015
5:00 pm
60 mins
Mark Feher, Director of Portfolio & Project Management Services, Empowered Networks
As companies grow and change in today's dynamic business and technical environment the need to control and manage application(s) investment and usage is increasingly critical to an organization's success. How to get this control and management becomes a pressing issue for many companies whether their applications are on site or cloud based.
Using a tailored enterprise specific approach, EmpoweredAPM expands CA PPM to provide clients with deep insight into how their application portfolios are performing, including an application's business capabilities, value, health, risks, inter-relationships/dependencies, supporting products, total cost of associated services, and other key information related to their current and future software applications.
Please join us for a webinar on Wednesday, October 28th where EmpoweredAPM will demonstrate how enterprises can leverage CA PPM (Clarity) to provide effective application portfolio management through the integration of control and management.
At the end of the Webinar, you will be able to answer the question: How can your business achieve control, management, and cost effectiveness or your suite of applications, now and in the future to reduce you total cost of services supported by SW Applications?
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If You're Only Using PPM for IT You're Missing Out
Oct 20 2015
5:00 pm
60 mins
Mark Mullaly of ProjectManagement.com
Project Portfolio Management is often seen—and sold—as a tool for IT. PPM is embraced by IT as a way of gaining control of their world to focus on managing scarce resources and making or prioritizing decisions. Guess what, IT isn't the only team with scare resources, making bad decisions and no priorities. If a company is only using PPM for IT they are missing the real value. Managing all types of business strategies through projects is a must for every business, and successful customers have realized the real value of PPM to make better choices, balance opportunities and meet goals.
In this webinar, Mark Mullaly examines how the role of PPM can be expanding and why PPM isn't a tool for just one part of the organization; it is a way of thinking and working that can benefit everyone.
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Driving Strategically Aligned Business Outcomes w/Resource Mgt 1 PDU
Sep 30 2015
59 mins
Steve Romero, Founder of Romero Consulting
Every company needs to be a technology company to survive in the application economy. Business and customer expectations are immediate and changing on a daily basis. This continuous and disruptive flow of new demand requires an effective approach for managing and consuming centralized resource management insights. Organizations have improved their investment review and approval process but it is more important to determine if an organization "can" take on the desired effort.
This Webcast will focus on how resource management processes play a key role in potentially providing the insights necessary to answer the "can we" question that must be asked before allowing any new project or program for inclusion in the enterprise portfolio.
•Do we have the resource capacity?
•Do we have the resource capability?
•Can we supplement our existing resources with 3rd-party resources?
•What are the resource cost comparisons and ramifications?
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Manage for Value: Optimizing Business Transformation Initiatives with PPM
Sep 22 2015
49 mins
Dan Greer of Rego Consulting & Kael Wray Pratt of CA Technologies
There's no escaping change. And organizations that cling to the "tried and true"—whether it be existing business models and processes or perceptions of market conditions and customer preferences—are doomed to continually play catch-up in the marketplace.
But, even recognizing the inevitability of change isn't the same as managing the challenges it presents.
Change is opportunity. Successful organizations embrace change and leverage the outcomes into growth and competitive advantage. Join Rego Consulting and CA Technologies for an informational webinar where we'll share how organizations are successfully managing business transformation initiatives with CA PPM. Key topics of discussion include demonstrating how organizations are utilizing CA PPM to:
•Effectively prioritize and select which change initiatives to fund and pursue
•Manage all the moving pieces of transformation across organizational and geographical boundaries
•Efficiently and effectively track progress and measure success
•Document and report the benefits realized to the appropriate stakeholders
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Simplifying Resource Management in CA PPM with Add-Ins from itdesign
Sep 10 2015
43 mins
Joerg Leute, CEO, itdesign GmbH
Resource management is one of the most trending topics in Project Portfolio Management. The itd Assignment Editor allows users to plan assignments directly via the CA PPM web interface without connecting to Open Workbench or Microsoft Project.
Requesting capacity for projects is now simpler and easier than ever.
Joerg Leute will demonstrate and explain in this webcast how to use CA PPM and the itd assignment Editor to improve the resource management process.
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Driving Business Benefits from Digital Innovation Efforts (1 PMI PDU)
Aug 6 2015
53 mins
Will Yester, Senior PPM Manager with Kalypso and Charisse Jacques, partner of Kalypso
Digital initiatives are very cross-functional by nature. Gaining and maintaining alignment on priorities can be quite difficult, particularly given the fast pace of retail and siloed nature of most retail organizations. Thus, the drive to achieve business benefits from digital initiatives can be elusive. In this webinar, we will discuss importance of governance and managing digital initiatives as a portfolio.
Attendees will learn:
•Leading practices for driving alignment on digital priorities
•How to ensure digital efforts meet changing business needs and lead to business benefits (both near-term and longer term).
This event qualifies for Project Management Institute (PMI) 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU).
In accordance with its Privacy Policy, CA Technologies may disclose your registration information with its partner(s) which assist with this presentation. For more information about CA's disclosure practices, please visit the CA Privacy Notice here http://www.ca.com/us/privacy.aspx.
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How to Deliver the Right Products and Features to Propel Growth (1 PDU)
Jul 28 2015
56 mins
Andy Jordan of ProjectManagement.com
The application economy has fundamentally changed the relationship between the enterprise and its customers. The trends of this new business world—the cloud, mobile and social—mean that software is now the predominant choice for consumers to experience companies and their brands. Have you ever considered how you differentiate your products and applications for success in this fast paced application economy?
In this webinar, Andy Jordan discusses innovative ways to deliver intuitive, engaging products and applications in this fast moving, highly competitive environment. He will explore how organizations are selecting the right products, applications and prioritizing feature requests while staying in alignment with business strategies. You will also learn about:
•Efficient and effective resource investment – how to get the most return from your people in the fast paced modern environment
•The need to focus on net benefits, not project constraints
•The need for clear, consistent top down guidance
•The need to effectively respond to (and predict) shifting strategic needs
Don't miss this thought provoking webinar that's guaranteed to make you rethink how to deliver the products and features that will deliver real results.
This event qualifies for 1 Project Management Institute Professional Development Unit (PDU) credit.
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Streamline Your Project Intake Process (1 PDU)
Jul 22 2015
60 mins
Aditya Angrish of WinMill Software & Rob Stroud of CA Technologies
Does your organization have a reliable way to intake project ideas? Do you struggle with how to determine whether project requests align with business strategy? How do you know if the costs will outweigh the benefits?
Join us for a webinar, where we will explore these topics and more. We'll discuss:
•Providing a standardized idea Input form, making it easier to evaluate potential projects
•How to determine whether ideas align with strategic objectives
•How to determine relative priority across ideas
•The best way to evaluate costs and benefits of high priority ideas
•How to use Idea portfolios for what-if scenarios
•Converting ideas to projects
•Using workflows for Approvals, Action Items and Governance
After discussing these best practices, we'll use CA PPM show how they can be implemented as a real world, practical solution!
Register today!
This event is approved for 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU) credit.
In accordance with its Privacy Policy, CA Technologies may disclose your registration information with its partner(s) which assist with this presentation. For more information about CA's disclosure practices, please visit the CA Privacy Notice here http://www.ca.com/us/privacy.aspx.
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Obtaining Value: How to Get Started with Portfolio Management (1 PMI PDU)
Jun 30 2015
58 mins
Noland Eidsmoe of Excers and Robert Stroud of CA Technologies
Today it is generally recognized that projects must deliver value. But what is value, how do we ensure that it is delivered, and how do we group the set of investments into our portfolio to deliver the most value?
Industry established standards and practices should form the basis for the approach to implementing portfolio management. These will guide us in the steps to prioritize and select the highest value investments.
This presentation very simply walks through the steps to create and maintain portfolios within these best practice standards and practices.
In accordance with its Privacy Policy, CA Technologies may disclose your registration information with its partner(s) which assist with this presentation. For more information about CA's disclosure practices, please visit the CA Privacy Notice here http://www.ca.com/us/privacy.aspx.
This event qualifies for Project Management Institute (PMI) 1 Professional Development Unit (PDU).
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Using PPM to Assure Business Transformation Success (1 PMI PDU)
Jun 17 2015
56 mins
Steve Romero, Founder of Romero Consulting; Sonja Furneaux, CA Technologies
Too many businesses are relying on the heroics of their people to accomplish business transformations mistakenly treating them as little more than operational changes. In fact, business transformations have all the hallmarks of the most complex projects and programs and the challenges can be just as overwhelming. Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) can save they day by providing the foundation and means to:
•Identify and select the initiatives to create desired changes to the business
•Enable the oversight necessary to monitor and adjust projects and programs to ensure successful execution
•Provide the ability to measure results and realize maximum business value
Join us for a webcast focusing on how PPM can be used to assure the transformation of your enterprise.
All attendees are eligible to earn 1 Project Management Institute (PMI) Professional Development Unit (PDU).
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Comment booster son système de pilotage des projets de portefeuilles avec CA PPM
Jun 16 2015
55 mins
Filomène Dossantos, Chef de projet boost Clarity chez BNP Paribas (BDDF), Vincent Kolb, Principal Consultant CA Technologies
Le processus de pilotage de vos projets est complexe, dépassé, pas assez aligné sur les besoins et attentes de vos équipes, ou peut-être les trois ?
Pour y remédier, CA Technologies et ISPA Consulting vous invitent à découvrir lors d'un webcast de 40 minutes, comment BNP Paribas-Banque de Détail France (BDDF) a boosté son système de pilotage et amélioré les leviers de gestion opérationnelle et budgétaire de ses projets et portefeuilles avec la solution CA PPM et l'accompagnement d'ISPA Consulting.
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Mythbusting Project Management
May 28 2015
56 mins
Rick Morris, R2 Consulting
There are many myths that project managers and executives simply accept about project management. Dates are mandated. Project managers own the project. Resources are unlimited. On the other side, there are many excuses such as things will never change here. You don't understand our corporate culture. Our organization can't work like that. If you have heard any of this or believe any of this, than this session is perfect for you. Come hear world renowned speaker Rick A. Morris, President of R2 Consulting, LLC Mythbust Project Management for you! Rick is an expert in down to earth delivery of simple and executable tips and tricks to get you on a path of powerful change! In a quick hour, walk away with some simple facts and stories that can change the way you think about project management.
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What's New In CA PPM 14.2
Apr 22 2015
50 mins
David Werner, CA Technologies and Lonnie Haire, VersionOne
CA Technologies has just released CA PPM 14.2, the latest version of the industry-leading Project & Portfolio Management solution. In this live webcast, David Werner from CA Technologies will discuss the exciting new features and functionality in the 14.2 release. Joining David in this webcast will be Lonnie Haire of VersionOne to discuss the available integration of VersionOne's industry-leading Agile solution with CA PPM. Both speakers will answer questions from audience.
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Symptoms that Signal the Need for Portfolio Management in Product Development
Mar 24 2015
58 mins
Will Yester, Kalypso and Rob Stroud from CA Technologies
Ineffective new product development (NPD) pipeline management is a condition that affects many organizations looking for sustainable results from their new product efforts. In most cases, organizations struggle to understand what the symptoms they experience are telling them about their pipeline, and how to focus their energy on initiatives that will make the most impact. In this webcast, CA and Kalypso will review the most common indicators of a faulty NPD process and help diagnose the causes.
Attendees will learn:
- The common pain points and symptoms that indicate poor NPD pipeline management
- Why organizations experience these symptoms, and the underlying causes that produce these pains
- How to tailor portfolio management principles to treat the symptoms of poor NPD pipeline management, including example that illustrates how portfolio management can drive sustainable results
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Realizing the Full Potential of PPM – A Simple Approach
Mar 4 2015
46 mins
Steve Romero, Romero Consulting
A recent analyst study found that 88% of organizations are "doing Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)." This finding could lead many to believe all is well with this critical business process so essential to strategic success. This is hardly the case as studies also show PPM is still generally immature in enterprises today. The lack of maturity is largely due to the fact that most organizations are addressing only a subset of PPM capabilities. So though almost every organization can lay claim to doing PPM, few are actually doing PPM for all its worth. Many of these organizations will continue to miss out on the incredible possibility and promise of this essential business capability until they grasp and appreciate the full scope and potential of PPM.
One of the greatest barriers to realizing the full potential of PPM is an enterprise-wide awareness of the span of PPM and the likely gap that must be overcome to achieve it. There is a plethora of great PPM insight contained in the numerous books, methodologies, and frameworks available today, but using this volume of information to get everyone on the same page is a daunting challenge. The key is to use a simple approach and model to quickly establish a common understanding of this critical business discipline and to easily foster the conversations and discussions to drive the endeavor to raise PPM proficiency.
This brief webcast will present a PPM model that is easy to remember, easy to communicate, and proven to quickly illuminate the gap between existing immature PPM processes and the full scope and potential of comprehensive Project and Portfolio Management.
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Aligning Resources to Strategic Goals
Mar 3 2015
46 mins
Alan Guibord, Founder & Chairman and Jim Noble, CEO of the Advisory Council International
Portfolio planning activities have struggled to gain respect in most businesses. Lack of enterprise-wide orchestration arises from a lack of effective involvement and intimate business knowledge – not simply of operations and processes, but of business imperatives, obstacles and desired outcomes. And the information systems aspects continue to be planned in splendid isolation from the business, causing IT people to mistakenly celebrate victory when a new IT system goes live. However a project only really starts when the IT goes live, and so the planning needs to be fully integrated. This can only be accomplished first by building strong relationships with business peers that will result in measurable value creation. The next step is to implement a sophisticated PPM system that can handle the extreme complexity of orchestrating all the business and related technology portfolio of initiatives, capable of optimizing the plans (and the outcomes) as the business environment changes.
To achieve this, a new PPM model needs to be created to look at portfolio management in a holistic way, enterprise-wide. Planners need a capability that will generate multiple scenarios and real-time decision support. This dimensionality and complexity is well beyond the capacity of the human brain. By implementing such a tool, IT would be positioned as a critical partner with the business – not just in implementing mainstream information systems, but also in helping the business with a much better way to plan and manage all of its key initiatives effectively
This session focuses on how enterprise leaders and divisional leaders and IT leaders should be working in harmony to orchestrate great business outcomes, rather than looking after their parochial interests.
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In order to react swiftly to rapidly changing business environments, organizations need to perpetually plan and communicate strategic objectives and priorities. The goal is to manage a balanced portfolio of innovation and enterprise growth with ongoing maintenance efforts. Both IT and the business benefit from having dynamic business plans that drive clear initiatives designed to achieve optimal return on investment throughout project execution and product delivery.
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Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patient care by developing novel medicines in the areas of hepatitis C and oncology. For the treatment of chronic hepatitis C, the Company is developing two potentially complementary agents, ANA598, a non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor and ANA773, an oral TLR7 agonist prodrug. The Company is also developing ANA773 for the treatment of cancer.
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Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in
nature constitute "forward-looking statements." Such statements include,
but are not limited to, references to (i) the expected timing and planned
trial design of the ANA598 Phase Ib study, including Anadys' expectation
that it will have viral load data from all three cohorts in the first
quarter of 2009; (ii) predictions of future antiviral activity based on
plasma drug concentrations seen in the healthy volunteer study and
preclinical results to date; (iii) the potential for once-daily or
twice-daily oral dosing and the belief that it should not be necessary to
take ANA598 on an empty stomach in order to achieve desired plasma drug
levels; (iv) the ability of Anadys to transition into Phase
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Equine-Assisted Therapies: Complementary Medicine or Not?
Ratliffe, Katherine T., Sanekane, Cindy, Australian Journal of Outdoor Education
Equine-assisted therapies are interventions that use the unique qualities of a horse to assist persons with disabilities to improve their gross motor, language, social, and self-help skills. Programs offering these services are varied and operate on all major continents across the world. The effectiveness of equine-assisted therapies is generally supported by research, although most studies have been small and the rigor of much of the research has been less than optimal. This paper describes the different types of riding programs and reviews research examining their effectiveness for children and adults with developmental and acquired motor or cognitive disabilities, and psychological or psychiatric impairments. Recommendations are made for future research to provide evidence of the broader benefits of using horses to enhance the lives of people with disabilities.
Animal-assisted therapy has been used for years to promote human well-being, and has been shown to improve outcomes for people with Autismspectrum disorders, illnesses, behavioral problems, and poor emotional well-being (Nimer & Lundahl, 2007). Equine-assisted therapies, the use of horses to promote development of skills and behaviors, are used internationally to complement medical intervention for individuals with many disabling conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury, emotional disabilities and multiple sclerosis (American Hippotherapy Association, 2007; Debuse, Chandler, & Gibb, 2005; Hammer et al., 2005; North American Riding for the Handicapped Association, 2008; Pichon Riviere, Augustovski, & Colantonio, 2006; Riding for the Disabled Association, 2008; Riding for the Disabled Association of Australia, 2008). The recent film and book, The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson (2009) brings this approach into the public eye. Isaacson highlighted his son's affinity with horses and their potential to help him learn to make sense of his world as the family traveled to Mongolia to find help for Rowan's autism.
Horseback riding and related activities using horses are believed to help people develop motor skills, balance, and muscle control; improve social, communication, and self-help skills; and improve psychological constructs such as self-esteem and well being (Brock, 1989; Casady & Nichols-Larsen, 2004; Macauley & Guterriez, 2004). The unique experience of working with a large animal can assist children and adults to work through fear, develop empathy, cooperate with others, and to develop self-confidence (Frewin & Gardiner, 2005). Although evidence is emerging to support these benefits, rigor in research addressing outcomes for children and adults has been lacking. As a result, many insurance companies in the United States consider equine-assisted activities experimental and will not fund them as interventions for individuals with disabilities (Aetna, 2008; Pichon Riviere et al., 2006).
This paper explains the history and terminology around the therapeutic use of horses for people with disabilities as well as reviews research evidence of its effectiveness in promoting positive outcomes in children and adults. First, we will describe different types of equine-assisted therapies, the populations served, and the geographical scope of these interventions. Then we will review the literature on outcomes and effectiveness for different population groups. Finally, we will summarize the evidence, point out limitations in the research to date, discuss why equine-assisted therapies are so popular, and identify needs for future research. This information is necessary to evaluate equine-assisted therapy programs and assess outcomes in light of established costs and benefits.
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paul wheaton
Joined: Apr 01, 2005
Posts: 17182
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
Jan 20, 2012 08:41:12
This has been my policy at JavaRanch for ten years. And it has been wonderful. Here is the official position:
Click on "my profile" at the top and you will be able to request a name change.
This thread is a great place to ask questions about this policy. but I warn you, if you say "I won't do it" I will lock your account. I fully expect a lot of people to refuse to use permies.com any more because of this path, and I am okay with that. I think the upsides outweigh the downsides.
If you use a name that is not your real name, but sounds like a real name, that is great. I have only one requirement in that space: never publicly announce that your name is fake.
As for "why": because I wanna. Why does an painter use blue instead of teal? Why does a sculptor use clay instead of granite? It has been my experience for over 25 years of running on-line forums that this is the path I want to follow.
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Kat deZwart
Joined: Aug 13, 2011
Posts: 103
Location: Limburg, Netherlands, sandy loam
Jan 31, 2012 07:54:16
Due to family-issues I hadn't been on permies for a few months, and when I just logged back on, I wondered when I got married to a certain mcCoy :')
I'll submit the changerequest in a minute... or I'll get in trouble with my SO.
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Feb 07, 2012 20:17:55
Sometimes I like addressing people by their names in posts, but if you're called "mrstinkybutt McCoy" (or whatever), I feel funny talking to you...
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Feb 25, 2012 15:31:56
Please change folks
gani et se
Joined: Apr 24, 2011
Posts: 215
Location: Douglas County OR
Mar 04, 2012 21:52:56
if you're called "mrstinkybutt McCoy"...
Oh Leila, that's Rich!
Pardon my pun.
I guess you could address mister McCoy -- unless that's Mrs. Tinky Butt.
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Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Mar 05, 2012 00:39:01
*Snort*. My mother's fond of irony and she's always said if some nutter insisted on getting her a personalised plate for whatever old dunger she's got, it would have her name on it ME Rich
Mrs Tinky Butt sounds much...nicer...somehow.
Are you familiar with Beatrix Potter? That name sounds like one of her small English animals, dressed up fetchingly in people-clothes.
gani et se
Joined: Apr 24, 2011
Posts: 215
Location: Douglas County OR
Mar 08, 2012 23:11:01
Yes Leila, I of course know Beatrix Potter. I can see Mrs. Tinky Butt. I also thought that if there is a Mrs. Tinky, then maybe teletubby Tinky Winky isn't gay after all
Okay we're WAY off topic. I've kind of been waiting to see if I get questioned about my odd name. Asked to show my driver's license if I ever make it to one of the gatherings.
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Mar 10, 2012 01:59:26
Your name's so unusual that there's no way that I would feel qualified to question it!
By the way though, how do you like to be addressed? If names don't fit the standard 'first-name-plast-name' template, I get a bit shy about taking a guess.
Bill Sullivan
Joined: Mar 05, 2012
Posts: 18
Location: New York State about 25 miles south of Syracuse.
Mar 10, 2012 18:39:54
"use a real sounding name" I am humored by such a request. Not only is it totally politically incorrect but what if my name was Running Bear or Sitting Bull would that be any different then Billy Goat? Humor me and explain what your hang up is about using a name that is as unoffensive as Billy Goat or was it just too Islamic sounding?
gani et se
Joined: Apr 24, 2011
Posts: 215
Location: Douglas County OR
Mar 10, 2012 20:56:59
Sorry, I usually sign with my name the first time I post to a thread -- takes out the ambiguity. I forgot this time.
Also, a pronunciation guide: the g is hard, the a is ah -- say it like Bonnie with a hard g.
p.s. unless you will always think of me now as Mrs. Tinky Butt?
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Mar 11, 2012 14:59:32
Hi Bill,
I take your point, but can't for the life of me imagine how
Billy Goat
could sound Islamic
We're all doing our best, I promise.
Bill Sullivan
Joined: Mar 05, 2012
Posts: 18
Location: New York State about 25 miles south of Syracuse.
Mar 11, 2012 16:46:25
Love your site.
Lloyd George
Joined: Jan 25, 2012
Posts: 159
Apr 02, 2012 19:17:45
Ima Pseudonym smith?
Matt Smith
Joined: Feb 04, 2012
Posts: 181
Location: Central Ohio, Zone 6A - High water table, heavy clay.
Apr 02, 2012 19:28:19
Followed the rules when I joined, and was disappointed to find that most folks were breaking the rules.
I'll continue to use my real name here.
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Apr 03, 2012 01:48:57
Thanks for following 'the rules' Matt!
People have their individual reasons for things on both ends of this name change thing. Not every request results in instant...compliance...and it's not much fun harassing people
Hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to harass I go
Nomad, 2nd
Joined: Nov 04, 2011
Posts: 10
Apr 08, 2012 10:47:27
I've been working 75-90 hours a week since January, so I haven't been here or elsewhere much at all.
I just checked my email and Leila sent me a PM.
Since we are invited to ask on this thread I'll ask what I asked her:
I've been using the same name all across the internet since before Y2K everywhere I've gone.
(If you will excuse the 'sounds like
')... People know me.
How am I going to do this and not loose contact with people as we have drifted in and out of various forums and places?
How will people know 'its me'?
Thank you
paul wheaton
Joined: Apr 01, 2005
Posts: 17182
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
Apr 08, 2012 10:50:19
Easy: set your "location" to be "aka _____". Or, you can also set your signature to "aka _____". And then set your display name to a real sounding name.
Nomad, 2nd
Joined: Nov 04, 2011
Posts: 10
Apr 16, 2012 19:43:20
Ya'll just go ahead and delete my account. I see no use for having 'real sounding names that don't haveta be your real name'.
Your place your rules.
I'll play elsewhere when I have time to do so again. I have other things to worry about at the moment.
paul wheaton
Joined: Apr 01, 2005
Posts: 17182
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
Apr 16, 2012 20:10:26
account locked
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
May 04, 2012 01:55:35
We're trying hard to get everyone's names changed. It's getting there, but it's happening pretty slow!
It would be really, really great if all those who have been asked change
If you haven't been asked, but think you should, please change
Michael Brant
Joined: Jan 05, 2012
Posts: 12
Location: Ontario, Canada
May 15, 2012 16:52:15
One thing I don't understand is why people wouldn't use their real names. Can someone please explain to me why it is so important to fight this simple request by the management? My real name is Michael Brant and I have no problem having it out there. Are people afraid of identity theft?
Mary James
Joined: Mar 18, 2011
Posts: 145
Location: NW MT Zones 4/5 Rollins Mt
May 15, 2012 18:09:47
We now go by both of our names combined out of respect for Paul..
But the reason we wished to use our Happy House name was because that is the name we use on all forums we participate on, as well as facebook and such.The Happy House is what people who know us are familiar with both online and off. Since both James and I write as well it covered that aspect.....Take now he is talking and cooking while I am typing so I cannot just say hey it is me alone...When we teach in public we go by the Happy House home to Alan Westerman memorial gardens,, so when we refer others to this site now we have to take the time to forewarn them about our name here..Other wise they come in look around and say well your not there ...We very much understand Nomad's concerns because we are dealing with that at this time helping those who we bring here to know who we are..over again...However if we wish to reach out and share,,,, this is a part of handling it ,,,Lol,,means extra on line time that we are having to learn to do double duty while doing work on the computer...We think reaching out sharing and offering suggestions for others to consider is worth it..
As to others people not wanting to do the name changes not sure,, but that is why it took us so long to do the change over,,While it is nice for the persona here on the site we have found it is extra work for us with those we refer but is working out okay...
Mary and James
Michael Brant
Joined: Jan 05, 2012
Posts: 12
Location: Ontario, Canada
May 15, 2012 20:17:36
I totally get your explanation Mary James and it makes perfect sense. You have an actual need to keep a consistant handle. I too have a 'handle' that I use all over the Internet, but since I'm really just a lurker, it doesn't bother me to use my real name on this one site.
Isawela Yonah
Joined: Nov 17, 2009
Posts: 51
Feb 12, 2013 23:17:23
How does someone delete their account? I'm just not fond of the fact that all of my posts are searchable via google without someone being a member...I'd prefer to be removed and would do it myself if I could figure out how. And will the posts be removed?
paul wheaton
Joined: Apr 01, 2005
Posts: 17182
Location: missoula, montana (zone 4)
Feb 12, 2013 23:58:01
Do you understand the difference between a real name and a real sounding name?
Cortland Satsuma
Joined: Mar 17, 2013
Posts: 319
Location: (Zone 7-8/Elv. 350) Powhatan, VA (Sloped Forests & Meadow)
Jul 22, 2013 15:38:20
Well, now that I read through this, I am at least glad I was not personally targeted; and, the numerous no attempt to be a name (IE hippy in holland, etc) will be changing. As to it being annoying when you have a very clear and defined name in all your other activities online, simply do not recommend this site to those contacts ever. If this site helps you, stay; if not, then why are you complaining? Life is filled with rules; many of which are completely and totally arbitrary...but, they are the rules none the less. So you can pack up your pail and shovel and find a new sand box or do as the sand box owner says.
A side thought on the real sounding name issue: There are victims of crimes who do not want their real name or location known to the criminal; a real sounding name allows them to participate in safety.
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Dale Hodgins
Joined: Jul 28, 2011
Posts: 5358
Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada
Jul 22, 2013 20:14:06
I've personally met a few folks who go to great lengths to hide their identity while on the net. One of them, named Rob, has a distorted view of his importance in the world. He has very little to say online, spending hours with games and social media. Rob thinks the whole world is interested in his inane chatter and that he's being watched by a number of government agencies. This gives him something to hold onto. Although he is ignored or dismissed by many who meet him, his spy games on line which includes false names, encrypting and routing messages to a dozen different countries make him feel very important. He's had email accounts shut down because of this shenanigans and this re-enforces his delusions.
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Jul 23, 2013 07:59:41
I have one word PRISM.
Dale Hodgins
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Location: Victoria British Columbia-Canada
Jul 23, 2013 08:12:11
S Bengi wrote:
I have one word PRISM.
When communicating in single words, it's best to include a definition. I'm probably in the majority as someone who will not bother to look this up.
Leila Rich
Joined: May 24, 2010
Posts: 3999
Location: Wellington, New Zealand. Temperate, coastal, sandy, windy,
Oct 15, 2013 16:27:22
There's quite a few new members with names that don't fit the 'real-sounding-first-second name thing.
It would be really great if you put in a name-change request in 'my profile'.
It's also a good opportunity to add signatures, live links and location/climate info if you'd like to.
Matu Collins
Joined: Feb 24, 2011
Posts: 1774
Location: Southern New England, seaside, avg yearly rainfall 41.91 in, zone 6b
Oct 15, 2013 21:11:23
Sometimes people who are famous prefer to have a chance to be "just regular"
Perhaps the fellow who spends a lot of time online has an inflated sense of his own importance, but in the current surveillance state, people who are actively and successfully working for change have every reason to be cautious.
Dale, PRISM is the once-secret surveillance program where the government has been watching and storing private phone records and emails without warrants or oversight.
Craig Dobbelyu
Joined: Dec 22, 2011
Posts: 1165
Location: Maine (zone 5)
Oct 16, 2013 06:15:16
I think it's kinda funny that people have a hard time with this. It just has to sound real, it DOES NOT have to be your real name.
I think it makes folks uncomfortable to have to have a real sounding name that isn't their real name. It's like you're not yourself, even though in most cases you're real name was given to you without your input into the matter. Isn't it odd though that we don't have any trouble at all in coming up with a typical screen name type thing? We get to pick a screen name that would more accurately describe us as a person in most cases and we give it very little thought. But when you need to choose a real sounding name, everything goes haywire.
So there's the real life you: _______ <--- real name there
and the online you: ________<---- (farmkid1, bowling4u, orwhatever screen) A chosen name you control
And on permies :________<---- A real sounding name that is not your own but could have been given to you by reasonable parents.
While I'm sure there are many people using their real name, there are folks that just can't for one reason or another. That's OK, there are plenty of baby name websites where you can go pick one from an enormous list. Some even give the historical or translations of names.
It's fun!
Here's mine
Now you try
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