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Course Description: Are you struggling to implement Agile tools at your organization alongside Clarity PPM? This class will review best practices for implementing Agile tools in conjunction with Clarity PPM while living in a bimodal world. We will discuss how Clarity PPM can govern both types of work and teams and how Agile tools should interface with Clarity PPM. -
Course Description: If I build a process in the Classic UI, does it still get triggered in the Modern UX? If I add a new attribute in the Classic UI, how will it be exposed in the Modern UX? This class will focus on the setup of Clarity PPM's Modern UX. It will include topics like turning on the Modern UX, setting up links, using blueprints, and configuring tiles and objects. We will explain how the Modern UX and the Classic UI interact when it comes to administration. -
Course Description: Are you tracking your vendor contracts outside of Clarity PPM? Have you considered moving the data into Clarity PPM? This session will review a set of use cases where Clarity PPM is being used to manage vendor contracts and how they are linked to resources, projects, and time to drive efficiencies in monitoring contracts and comparing actuals to invoices. -
Do you want to talk to other customers that are using or plan to use demand management? In this moderated round table, customers can share experiences and provide insights on process, configurations, challenges, and successes. We will divide into small groups and discuss customer selected topics—100% sharing. -
Course Description: No matter how hard we try many organizations cannot pry Excel out of the hands of project and resource managers. In this class, we will explore possibilities that embrace Excel as a great data entry tool. We will show useful case studies on quick Excel integrations deployed for customers. -
Course Description: Do you want to talk to other customers that are using or plan to use financial management? In this moderated round table, customers can share experiences and provide insights on process, configurations, challenges, and successes. We will divide into small groups and discuss customer selected topics—100% sharing. -
Course Description: We once had a client refer to the reports they developed as “Fisher-Price” reports. Reports should be built with consistency using graphic design principles. Join a Rego architect and UX designer to learn some fundamental graphic design principles such as grid theory, ink-to-data ratio, flow, balance, and more. Come prepared to be "wowed." -
Course Description: Have you ever wanted to build portlets that were not limited by Clarity PPM's out-of-the-box portlet types? This class will explore some of the options you can use to build helpful portlets with HTML, including calendars, Kanban boards, tile-based project lists, and some special Star Wars-themed communication portlets. -
Course Description: In the new bimodal IT environment, does your organization lack insights into what Agile work is being done and what value is being delivered? Learn how Apptio Agile Insights merges data from multiple Agile tools, including Clarity PPM, to bring together a total picture of the value IT is delivering. -
Course Description: The single biggest risk for CIOs and IT organizations today is not being able to make good spending decisions at the pace of digital business.- Challenges
- Investment Planning
- IT Financial Management
- Agile Financials
- ServiceNow ITFM Capabilities
- Apptio Introduction
- ServiceNow / Apptio Solution
- Best Practices
- Pitfalls to Avoid
- Apptio Details
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Course Description: Do you know what PPM, APM, Agile, ITFM, and other tools are available in the marketplace? Have you taken a strategic look at the key IT processes and tools that exist to support them? Have you been asked to evaluate and recommend a PPM tool? This class will review other ITBM tools and examine their pros and cons. We will also provide six keys to evaluating a PPM solution. -
Course Description: Do you already have a basic understanding of Jaspersoft Studio development? This session will include advanced topics like duplicating and modifying an OOTB report, multiple datasets, subreports, charting, widgets integration, and crosstabs. The detailed agenda is as follows: Jaspersoft Advanced – Out-of-the-Box Customization (2 hours) • Discover how to use OOTB reports, OOTB domains, resource bundles, and security access grant schemas. Jaspersoft Advanced – Chart Development (2 hours) • Explore multiple advanced charting techniques and types using built-in charting components, including properties (colors, plot options, sizing, gauges, etc.), dual pie chart, time series, and heat map. Jaspersoft Advanced – Scriptlets (2 hours) • Understand the basics of Jaspersoft Studio scriptlet development, utilizing Java libraries in custom Java classes to perform complex tasks in a simple manner. Jaspersoft Advanced – Roundtable (1 hour) • Understand crystal capabilities missing in Jaspersoft Studio, including sharing examples, report bursting needs, automation needs, and working with internal BI groups. -
Course Description: This unique session is divided into presentation and open discussion segments, where we will focus on offering philosophies and practical tips to increase the wisdom we have about ourselves as we navigate our corporate lives. Using conscious leadership principles as a guide, we will cover topics such as empathy in the workplace, understanding and working through internal drama, and the benefits of meditation and silence. -
Course Description: Does your IT organization struggle with IT budgeting and annual planning? Does your annual budget and planning process take months? This session explores leading approaches and purpose-built tools to shorten your budget cycle, align resources to business needs, and plan resources into future years while reducing errors and manual effort. -
Course Description: Are your reports and portlets performing well? This class will walk you through specific SQL tuning tricks to make queries run faster, increase end user satisfaction, and smooth-out system performance. This is an easy way to promote efficient future development and make a huge, positive impact on user experience. -
Course Description: Are you ready to implement a continuous improvement practice within your PMO? This class is a working session to help build and sustain a continuous assessment initiative within your PMO, helping to manage goals and objectives from start-up through maturity. We will also discuss growth mapping to processes, tools, and strategic objectives. -
Course Description: Does your organization struggle to understand your fully burdened TCO for the applications that enable your business? Do you use spreadsheets and disparate data sources to manually calculate TCO? This session explores the data sources needed to calculate the fully burdened TCO for applications. We will also cover marketplace tools that allow you to track spending, providing trends of applications broken down by run and development costs. -
Course Description: Do you want to improve the success of your projects? This class will discuss some lessons learned on making projects more successful. We will discuss things like: • Developing robust test plans, creating effective use and test cases, and implementing test scripts that make sense.- Why failures occur and what you can do to minimize the impact and plan for success—including a case study on lessons learned.
- Developing, testing, fine-tuning, and executing deployment plans for success.
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Course Description: Do you want to talk to other customers that are using or plan to use project management? In this moderated round table, customers can share experiences and provide insights on process, configurations, challenges, and successes. We will divide into small groups and discuss customer selected topics—100% sharing -
Course Description: Do you want to analyze the cost and utilization of Agile development resources? Do you struggle to integrate financial information with work execution information from Agile tools such as Rally Software®, Jira, or VersionOne? This session explores reporting and dashboarding approaches to provide technology leaders with KPIs and trends for Agile execution, along with views that relate Agile team activity with cost and delivery. -
Course Description: What is Technology Business Management (TBM) or IT Financial Management (ITFM)? Why is it important for IT? This session explores the need for TBM as well as how it drives significant cost optimization and more effective business-technology management practices. We will review the TBM framework, taxonomy, model, and how TBM processes and tools compliment your existing investment in PPM tools.

