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Conference PDUs

Project Management Institute (PMI®) Professional Development Units for Continued Certification (PDUs)

If you are a software development professional and you hold a PMI designation (including the new PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP℠), this collocated event is an outstanding resource to help you adhere to PMI’s Continuing Certification Requirements (CCR) program.

Project Management Institute Global Registered Education Provider

Better Software Conferences are a Global Registered Education Provider (R.E.P.) for the PMI. The designation as a PMI R.E.P. indicates that an organization has met PMI’s rigorous quality standards and can deliver world-class, effective project management training and education. PMI is the world’s leading not-for-profit membership association for the project management profession, with more than half a million members and credential holders in more than 185 countries.

PMI® PDU video thumbnailThe program for Better Software Conferences West includes many courses offering the PDUs you need to maintain your credential. The conference features over one-hundred approved sessions. Attend one or combine multiple sessions all week to earn up to forty PDUs. Keep track of all presentations attended throughout the week, and report all PDUs earned by searching for the title in the PMI's Continuing Certification Requirements System (CCRS). You can download an instructional PDF, or you can also pick up a copy at the registration desk during the conference. If you would like more interactive instructions, you can click the image to the right. When the video starts click the "How Do I Claim My PDUs?" section to the right. If you have any further questions please feel free to contact Client Support at 888.268.8770, 904.278.0524, or [email protected].

For more information on PMI designations or the benefits of choosing a PMI Registered Education Provider, visit www.pmi.org

Classes with PDUs

Sessions with PDUs

Session Titlesort descending Session Type Number of PDU's Date / Time

A Case Study in Metrics-Driven DevOps

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

A Simple Tool for Speaking Honestly and Constructively

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

A/B Testing: Improvements through Continuous Experimentation

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Acceptance Test-Driven Development

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Advanced Test Automation in Agile Development

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Agile Anti-Patterns: The Leader’s Guide to Agile Traps, Tripwires, and Treachery

Leadership Summit Session 1.50 Friday, June 10

Agile Hacks: Creative Solutions for Common Agile Issues

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Agile Leadership Is Essential to Agile Transformation

Leadership Summit Session 1.00 Friday, June 10

Agile Leadership Team Roles: Balancing Autonomy and Alignment

Leadership Summit Session 1.00 Friday, June 10

Agile Metrics: Measuring Outcomes and Results

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Agile Project Failures: Root Causes and Corrective Actions

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Apply Phil Jackson’s Coaching Principles to Build Better Agile Teams

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Architecture vs. Design in Agile: What’s the Right Answer?

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Avoid Critical UX Mistakes to Delight Your Users

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Blending Product Discovery and Product Delivery

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Borrowing Best-of-Breed Software Delivery Techniques for the Internet of Things

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Building Mob Programming Teams Using Lego® Serious Play®

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Command Query Responsibility Segregation at Enterprise Scale

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Configuration Management: Robust Practices for Fast Delivery

Tutorial 6.50 Monday, June 6

Continuous Delivery: Rapid and Reliable Releases with DevOps

Tutorial 6.50 Tuesday, June 7

Continuous Discovery: The Path to Learning and Growing

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Continuous Integration as a Development Team’s Way of Life

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Continuous Testing to Drive Continuous Integration and Deployment

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Create Brainstorming Commandos for Creative Problem Solving

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Decision-Making Tools for Leaders and Teams

Leadership Summit Session 1.00 Friday, June 10

Determining Business Value in Agile Development

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Developing a Rugged DevOps Approach to Cloud Security

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

DevOps and the Culture of High-Performing Software Organizations

Keynote 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

DevOps Is More than Just Dev and Ops: Don’t Forget Testing

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

DevOps Is Only Half the Story to Delivering Winning Products

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Disrupting Ourselves: Moving to a “Teal Organization” Model

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Don’t Make These Scrum Mistakes

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Eight Steps to Kanban

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

End-to-End Quality Approach: 14 Levels of Testing

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Essential Patterns of Mature Agile Leaders

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Essential Test-Driven Development: A Hands-On Workshop

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Facilitation Techniques for Agile Meetings and Ceremonies

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Five Critical Elements for Successful Agile Data Management

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Fostering Sustained Agility

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

From Unclear and Unrealistic Requirements to Achievable User Stories

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Getting Things Done: What Testers Do in Agile

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Going Agile at Scale: A Mindset Transformation of Global Proportions

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Great Business Analysts “Think Like a Freak”

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Great Product Design with User Story Mapping

Tutorial 6.50 Monday, June 6

Help Retain Knowledge: Increase Engagement to Achieve Learning

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

How Far Can You Go with Agile for Embedded Software?

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

How to Do Kick-Ass Software Development

Keynote 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Identify and Exploit Behavioral Boundaries for Unit Testing

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Implementing Agile in an FDA Regulated Environment

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Improvisation for Agile Skill Development

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Integrate Regulatory Auditing with Agile

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Leading Change—Even If You’re Not in Charge

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Leading with Purpose

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Measurement and Metrics for Test Managers

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Mob Programming Workshop

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Mobile App Testing: Planning, Priorities, Execution, and Reporting

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Plan, Architect, and Implement Test Automation within the Lifecycle

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Planning to Learn and Learning from Delivery: Scrum, Kanban and Beyond

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Playwriting, Imagination, and Agile Software Development … Oh My!

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Predictive Test Planning to Improve System Quality

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Principles and Practices of Lean Software Development

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Producing Products and Coaching Agility: Making Agile Practices Matter

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

Product Management: The Innovation Glue for the Lean Enterprise

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Project Estimation: Myths, Taboos, and Inconvenient Truths

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Recruit, Hire, and Retain Top Software Talent

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Scaling Scrum with Scrum™ (SSwS): A Universal Framework

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Scaling, Spreading, and Succeeding: When to Do What and Why

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Slay the Dragons of Agile Measurement

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Team Leadership Is Like Big Band Drumming

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Testing in a Super-Agile Software Development Environment

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

The Challenges of Testing a Wearable Banking Application

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

The Issues Agile Exposes and What To Do about Them

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

The Lean Executive Agility Framework

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

The Power of an Agile Mindset

Keynote 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

The Soft Skills of Great Software Developers

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

The Tester's Role in Agile Planning

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Three Things You MUST Know to Transform into an Agile Enterprise

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Use Business Analysts for User Interface Design

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Use Feature Flags for Clean Deployments

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Using DevOps to Drive the Agile ALM

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

What DevOps Means for Testers: Tips for Getting Testers Involved

Tutorial 3.25 Tuesday, June 7

What Everyone on the Team Needs to Know about Test Automation

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

What Hollywood Can Teach Us about Software Testing

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Where Is Test in DevOps?

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Which Agile Scaling Framework Is Best?

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

White Box Testing: It’s Not Just for Developers Any More

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9

Why Agile Works—and How to Screw It Up!

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Writing Developer Tests for Untested Legacy Code: A Hands-On Workshop

Tutorial 3.25 Monday, June 6

Your User Stories Are Too Big: Yes, They Are!

Concurrent Session 1.00 Wednesday, June 8

Zorro Circles: Retrospectives for Excellence

Concurrent Session 1.00 Thursday, June 9