Saturdays, June 15th & 22nd, (10am-4pm)

Crafting the Perfect Pitch for Getting Your Projects Funded through Crowdfunding

In this HANDS ON workshop you will create your fundraising pitch and set-up your profile on one of these crowdfunding websites: KICKSTARTER.COM, INDIEGOGO.COM, FUNDABLE.COM.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

• Sat, June 15th & Sat. June 22nd Classrooms, 10a - 4pm with a 1-hour lunch break
• Monday June 17th thru Friday June 21st: e-mail support
• Two conference calls during the Week of June 17th - 21st

INCLUDED IN THE WORKSHOP

• Workbook for creating a powerful pitch
• Guides for writing and producing content
• Budget planning worksheet (paper & .xls) to help estimate the project budget and pledge levels
• eMail and teleconference support the week between classrooms
• Links to helpful online resources
• Case studies of successful crowdfunded projects and summary of projects that failed and why
• List of the top crowdfunding sites for everything from projects to investment clubs.

After a review of the workbook, resource material & budgeting tools, we roll up our sleeves to begin the work of creating your project pitch and project marketing plan.

MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

We have so much confidence in the value of this workshop that we're offering a money-back guarantee. If you complete the workshop and are not satisfied with the value, request a refund in writing within a week of the workshop and we'll refund your workshop fee.

The DAMA Portland Chapter is dedicated to delivering thought provoking presentations that will make you more successful in your job. In June we take an exciting step away from the hard science topics to explore how to be more effective.

How many times have you delivered solutions that were never adopted or fell short in acceptance? If you’ve been around IT and projects long enough, you will know this truth - that success depends on the adoption of new systems, applications etc. by people. The skills that enable delivery are not the same skills that promote acceptance and use. While project management tends to focus on delivery of something, Transition Management (TM) focuses on the people part of solutions. At places like Nike, transition management is taken very seriously and all major projects have a Transition Manager assigned:

• Transition Management is a structured approach, and set of tools, to transition individuals, teams, and organizations from a current start to a desired future state

• A leadership competency for enabling change within organization

• A strategic capability designed to increase change capacity and responsiveness

No matter the project or change size, Transition Management should be always a consideration. Ignore TM at your own risk.

Transition management is more than just a learning plan. Done correctly, TM is a whole lot more. Nike's Transition Methodology is an evolution of the Bridge's Change Management Model.

Open Source Bridge is an open source developers conference, focused on bringing people from a range of technology backgrounds together to share their knowledge and explore what it means to be an open source citizen.

Find out more at http://opensourcebridge.org/

Business Wire Media Roundtable and Luncheon

Tuesday, June 18, at 11:30 a.m. PT How well do you know your local reporters, editors, bloggers and media decision-makers? Would you like to get to know them even better? Business Wire bets that you do as we know that building strong relationships with the people who cover Portland is the key to successful media relations.

Join us for Business Wire's Media Roundtable Discussion and meet with some of Oregon's most prominent media outlets to learn more about their continued transition to the digital world, pitching do's and don'ts, how they use mobile technology and much more. You will participate in small group discussions with executives, editors, reporters and writers from a variety of news outlets including The Oregonian, OPB, The Silicon Florist, KOIN Local 6, The Portland Business Journal and KATU News.

This event will be a great opportunity for you to develop new relationships and build upon your existing ones with some of Portland's most influential media. Please bring your business cards and questions.

We'll see you there!

Register by Friday, June 14 at bwportlandevent.eventbrite.com (seating is limited)

Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Time: 11:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Registration and lunch 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.: Media introductions and roundtable discussion

Location: The Governor Hotel Second Floor Library 614 SW 11th Ave. Portland, OR 97205

Cost: $10 for Business Wire members $20 for non-members

Note: tickets are non-refundable after Friday, June 14.

Visit www.businesswire.com to view a calendar of Business Wire's award winning webinars and local events.

Contact Brian Matt at 800-371-2638 with questions.

Come join an amazing group of ladies! No specific agenda, just network and have fun!

New Relic is hosting us in their amazing downtown offices. Come enjoy food and bevys and get to know some of the smart ladies behind New Relic!

PDX Women in Information Technology exists to celebrate professional women in the Portland-metro area who work with, manage, lead or have an interest in technology. Whether you are developing event-driven, non-blocking applications in node.js or setting technology strategy for a Fortune 500 company–or anything in between–come join us!

@PDXWiIT

vendors: This is a friendly networking event only

Today distributing applications is relatively easy, until you get to the data side of things. This is where the complexity in most applications comes into focus, where does the data go? How do I replicate or synchronize the data? How do or where do I cache data? What’s the geographic issues with data in one place and applications in another? How does the gravity of the data affect my application?

This talk will hone in on key details around implementing a true distributed system across geographically dispersed areas and how to provide the end user a solid synchronized experience while using the application. Examples will be provided with hybrid computing solutions and distributed software solutions including distributed databases, PaaS Deployment packaging and other key technologies.

It's been a couple months since the last Portland Startup Weekend, and it's time we buy the PDXSW community a beer, share some Maizey's Kettle Corn, and spend some time catching up!

There's so much going on! Companies that are moving forward, more startup weekend events are happening, like Tech4Change and NEXT. You can hear about all of this plus get some inspiration and ask for connections and resources needed for your PDXSW Startup.

Reserve your ticket here: http://pdxswalum.eventbrite.com/

You can think of Vert.x as an Actor-model-based, functional event-driven, messaging passing platform that speaks in modern protocols (JSON, WebSockets, etc) and can be used from many JVM based languages but bridges the communication gap between the browser and the server in a new way. Convincingly Vert.x is like a Node for the JVM, but with some fun enhancements.

We'll cover:

• What, Why and Who of the Vert.x project
• Discuss the problem space it is good for
• Demonstrate and discuss concepts and features of Vert.x
• Show a variety of demo apps illustrating how it works
• Current State of the Project

The Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics meeting

For want of a venue keyholder, we will congregate at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne for the topics of your choice.

This month we're meeting at the Eliot Center during Open Source Bridge in room B202/203.

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby. Bring questions. Drink $beverage. Hack. Experienced Rubyists welcome; we want you to share your expertise!

If you have a question or a topic you'd like discussed at the meeting, feel free to post to the mailing list.

pdxruby.org

14 PDUs available for this course.

Course Description

Quit doing all manual work in Excel! Come learn to use a dynamic, resource driven reporting tool from industry experts. This course is designed to help you manage and master MS Project from simple task management to Program and Portfolio management.

Learn how to create and maintain easily dynamic schedules, and address resource demand and capacity, over and under allocations all with visual reporting and proven techniques by 20+ year industry veterans. This course trains participants how to plan, forecast, build, and manage project tasks and resources and to combine issues, risks, deliverables and dashboards in one central tool

Learning Objectives

• Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
• Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
• Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
• Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
• Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
• Use reporting functions more effectively

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 book.

Who should take this course?

Project managers, project team members, project schedulers… and anyone who has used Microsoft Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted!

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Effective Use of Microsoft Project
  • MS Project Overview
  • Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project
  • Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
  • Creating task relationships & dependencies
  • Setting task constraints and outlining
• Managing and Tracking of Projects
  • Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
  • Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
  • Advanced resource scheduling techniques
  • Managing costs, tracking baselines
  • Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
  • Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
  • Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules
• Applying Resources and Calendars
  • Creating and utilizing resource pools
  • Applying layers of calendars
  • Utilizing project views
  • Formatting schedule layouts
  • Utilizing project reports
  • Understanding printing
• Working with External Data & Applications
  • Linking data between applications
  • Importing & exporting data
  • Hyperlinking and web pages
  • Utilizing business analysis templates
• Customizing for Better Management Results
  • Using filters, tables, details and groups
  • Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
  • MS Project scheduling methodologies
  • Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise where the participants can have actual tactical experience creating a schedule, linking tasks, creating custom views, along with best practice knowledge transfer on topics such as critical path methodology, project tracking, and Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts. Participants will also walk away with an understanding of how the schedule engine within Microsoft Project functions and will no longer need to ‘game’ the software, but can now let the software work for them.

Registration

Register at http://managing-projects-with-microsoft-project-2010.eventbrite.com/

A lunch meeting for Software Configuration Management engineers, build engineers, source control administrators, install package developers, DevOps personnel, and any related to meet and greet.

An opportunity to share perceptions of industry realities and changes and what those might mean for the practical engineer on the line.

NEXT is a complete hands-on program for developing and validating your business idea based on a comprehensive curriculum rooted in Steve Blank's Customer Development methodology, built around in-person interactions with potential customers and delivered by our accredited NEXT instructor - Tim Clark.

What you will learn: how to generate assumptions to validate about your assumed customer's needs, motivations and their behaviors; how to find and reach out to people for interviews that match your assumed customer segments; how to define experiments that validate or invalidate assumptions you have about your business model; how to develop your own customer discovery interview plan; how to conduct effective customer discovery interviews; and how to turn customer feedback into real insight.

• Week 1, The Art of Customer Discovery, June 19th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
• Week 2, Opportunity Assessment, June 26th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
• Week 3, Team Presentations, July 3rd 6:00pm to 9:00pm
• Week 4, Team Presentations, July 10th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
• Week 5, NEXT Final Presentations, July 17th 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Grab your co-founders and enroll today!

UX Happy Hour is a monthly drinkup for anyone interested in user experience & design!

Come hear quick stories from the community of Agile Highs and Agile lows.

This event is free and is at Puppet Labs. It begins at 6:30 pm with pizza, sponsored by PNSQC (Many thanks to both Puppet Labs and PNSQC for supporting agile in Portland).

The program starts at 7:00 pm.

After the program you're invited to join us for a no-host gathering at a nearby brewpub for further discussion.

Come see why Core 77 says “Crowd Supply is Kickstarter for product designers.”

Join Crowd Supply, Portland’s own crowdfunding platform, on Wednesday, June 19 from 6:30 to 8:30PM at ADX to learn about crowdfunding and launching your product.

Crowd Supply's Director of Projects (and ADX member) Josh Lifton will share tips and tricks from the trenches of preparing, launching, and successfully funding your product. This workshop will give you an overview of how you can use Crowd Supply to launch a successful product campaign, from planning and production, to marketing and fulfillment. The Crowd Supply team will be on hand to talk with you about crowdfunding in general and answer your specific questions.

Free tickets are required

Get tickets at: https://coderdojopdx.eventbrite.com/

Coder Dojo Portland is a coder night for kids, where K12 youth, along with their parents can play, explore, and learn about coding and building software.

More details are available on the website CoderDojoPdx.com.

We want interested K12 youths, parents, and mentors to join us! We are in lovely downtown Portland Oregon at the Engine Yard offices.

• Bring or borrow a laptop
• Parents are required for 12 and under
• One (free easy) ticket per youth, parent, or mentor

Meet and hack with other SW Portland hackers. All programming languages and skill levels welcome. Come work on your own projects, pair with others participants, get advice, have fun, etc.

This seminar provides a comprehensive overview of key intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement issues and offers valuable resources to help your business enforce IPR at home and abroad. This dynamic, day-long program will feature presentations by intellectual property experts and law enforcement officials from the U.S. Department of Commerce Office of Intellectual Property Rights, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and the National IPR Coordination Center.

Presentations will be followed by an opportunity to meet One-on-One with the presenters to discuss IPR protection as it relates to your firm.

The Oregon Chapter of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HiMSS) today announced the date of their latest Tech Talk entitled “Infrastructure as a Service and Cloud Computing in Healthcare”

Presenters will include John McDaniel, National Practice Leader with NetApp’s Healthcare Provider Segment, and Sonney Sapra, CIO for Tuality Healthcare.

“Big data is a big thing in healthcare today, and the next critical success factor we need to be prepared for is analytics” stated Brian Ahier, Health IT Evangelist at Mid-Columbia Medical Center. “Now that we have digitized much of our health data and begun exchanging and aggregating it, we need the business intelligence tools and analytics capabilities to make good use of this massive data set. This event will combine solutions with real world implementation, looking at the challenges and successes in moving towards the next frontier in health information technology."

Bring your ideas! Bring your hardware! We're meeting on the 3rd Thursday of each month to work on Node.js projects.

This night we'll be at Urban Airship.

Newbies welcome! Say hi and ask questions.

Announcing the second Portland Android Lecture Series! We'll be doing a recap of Google I/O related news and several 15 minute Android development related talks.

• Overview of the new Android build system
• Overview of asynchronous image loading libraries

There will be time after the event for general questions and networking.

See link for details.

The Elevating Impact Summit, brought to you by Impact Entrepreneurs at Portland State University, is a celebration of new approaches to generating social impact across business, social, public, and academic sectors.

This event features a dynamic day of interactive discussion and learning sessions, inspiring speakers, first-hand accounts from social entrepreneurs and innovators, and opportunities to connect with a diverse audience of business professionals, cutting edge entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and students all working to realize the full potential of business for positive impact.

Join us at Elevating Impact to connect with creative individuals and groups who are driving social impact across sectors and ages.

This is a pre-party for IndieWebCamp on Saturday and Sunday! Everyone is welcome, and there will be drink tickets for registered IndieWebCamp attendees! Add yourself to the guest list (http://indiewebcamp.com/2013/Guest_List) before all the spots fill up!

Rather than posting content on many third-party silos of data, we should all begin owning our own data that we're creating. Publish short status updates on your own domain, and syndicate to Twitter. Publish photos on your own domain, syndicate to Flickr, etc, etc.

This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement. We'll get together for two days to talk about what has been done in the field, and where still needs to be done. There will be workshops and breakout sessions the second day.

RSVP on the IndieWebCamp Wiki

See the full schedule

8pm country dance lesson 9pm open dance with d.j. $ 10.00 AT DOOR

Basho coworking office hours are every month. The meetup is during the day to come and hack on, deploy or just get a kick start on Riak, Riak CS or discuss NoSQL Solutions and Riak. Our first Coworking Office Hours will be from 9am until 11am on February the 4th. The regular meeting is scheduled for the same day at 7:00pm, generally we always meet at NedSpace unless otherwise mentioned in the meetup.

This Monday meet Eric Redmond AKA @coderoshi and I AKA @adron will be here to answer any questions, strike up discussions about Riak or help with any architectural or data oriented questions you may have. So come and join us, cheers!

Come hang out, drink beer, and write code every Monday night.

The meetings are extremely informal, and everyone is welcome! It is highly suggested that you bring a laptop and a project to work on.

Maybe we'll be in the middle room, maybe in the back room, just keep walking until you see a table full of laptops.

14 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Learn how to manage projects from initiation to close‐out. This practical course teaches participants how to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close‐out projects applying industry best practices.

Based on Project Management Institute methodology, this class examines the foundation of Project Management. Students will learn Project Management concepts, helpful Project Management terminology, and established methods based on the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Our hands‐on training is extremely practical and gives participants the conceptual and practical tools, templates, and checklists they need to collaborate on and manage projects successfully.

Learning Objectives

•Project Lifecycle Steps, Templates and Key Activities •Managing Issues, Risks and Requirements •Delivering Value and Success through Chaos and Changes •Scheduling Tools and Techniques for Managing Complex or Dynamic Projects

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Practical Project Management book, with 300+ pages of PMI approved life-cycle and thorough reference guide.

A CD with Advisicon’s best practice electronic tools and templates to aid in Project Management, and the Project Management Lifecycle flowchart.

Who should take this course?

•Project Managers •Project Team Members •Project Contributors •Project Support Team •Functional Managers •Executives

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Project Management Overview
  • The Goal of Project Management
  • Projects and Operations
  • Portfolio Management and Project Selection
  • Understanding the Project Lifecycle
  • Stakeholders, Managers and Team Members
• Executing and Controling a Project
  • Implementing Project Plans
  • Managing Requirements and Stakeholders
  • Managing Change and the Change Control Process
  • Managing Communications
  • Managing Risks, Issues, and Document
• Initiating a Project
  • Project Initiation Processes and Tools
  • Identifying Project Deliverables
  • Gathering Project Requirements
  • Developing the Scope Statement and Project Charter
  • Managing Expectations, Assumptions, and
  • Risks
• Closing Out a Project
  • Project Close‐Out Processes and Tools
  • Getting Acceptance of Project Deliverables & Requirements
  • Leading Effective Lessons‐Learned Sessions
  • Capturing and Implementing Lessons‐Learned
  • Handing‐Off Project Deliverables to
  • Operations, Customers, and Others
  • Final Reports and Project Closure
• Planning a Project
  • Project Management Planning Processes
  • Developing the Scope Management Plan
  • Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Characteristics of Good Project Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Communications Management

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise by forming workgroups that have the responsibility for planning and executing a project. Build a product according to the scope of sponsor specifications and implement the disciplines learned to deliver it within time and budget. We add twists, turns and other project real world problems for the teams to work through which adds to the fun of this creative simulation which effectively reinforces concepts and tools taught in the course.

Registration

Register at http://practical-project-management.eventbrite.com/

Presented by Neil Sculthorpe.

In Haskell, there are many data types that would form monads were it not for the presence of type-class constraints on the operations on that data type. This is a frustrating problem in practice, because there is a considerable amount of support and infrastructure for monads that these data types cannot use. This talk will demonstrate that a monadic computation can be restructured into a normal form such that the standard monad class can be used. The technique is not specific to monads --- it can also be applied to other structures, such as applicative functors. One significant use case for this technique is Domain Specific Languages, where it is often desirable to compile a deep embedding of a computation to some other language, which requires restricting the types that can appear in that computation.

Agenda: 6:00--6:20 Networking All are welcome to attend. 6:20--7:00 No-host dinner 7:00--7:30 Introductions and announcements 7:30--8:30 Main Presentation (followed by Q&A):

Oregon Computer Consultants Assn. www.OCCA.org. RSVP to meetup.com/itpro-70/events

A Look at Mobile Apps

Mobile computing is becoming a big part of the computer consultants required skills. This panel will present Mobile apps on the IOS platform (I-phone and I-pad) and the Android Platform for both phones and tablets.

We will examine the apps we recommend for clients as well as those useful for computer consultants.

There will be some time to allow attendees to also recommend superior apps for business and pleasure.

Presented by Christian Martin: Denali Consulting Jeff Cone: Cone Consulting Group Rich Wersinger: RGW Consulting LLC Steve Shank: Oregon Computer Solutions George Shubin: dX Software Systems

We will provide an overview of AngularJS and some of it's strongest features.

We will be serving Acapulco fajitas, and will have soda, coffee and tea available.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

CryptoParty is a grassroots global endeavour to introduce the basics of practical cryptography such as the Tor anonymity network, key signing parties, TrueCrypt, Linux, and virtual private networks to the general public.

This is a free skill-sharing event with other Cryptography and Privacy technology experts, working along side and sharing information with people new to Crypto and Privacy.

Everyone is welcome regardless of experience, bring a Laptop if you have one, if not, bring a USB thumbdrive, a pen and a pad of paper.

If you want to learn about how to encrypt your files and communicate securely, this is the event to come to!

Look for the people with laptops.

Informal meetup targeted at newcomers to Ruby as well as experienced programmers. Bring your laptop and your desire to learn.

Experienced Rubyists welcome; we will encourage newbies to self-teach during these sessions so you should have a great place to hack in peace.

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

Join us for an evening presentation all about the Portland Code School. This is a chance to meet current students, get your questions answered, and find out if this is the program you've been looking for!

Head instructor, Chuck Lauer Vose will talk about the 12-week program curriculum, application requirements, the schedule, and how we help students find job at the end of the session.

If you've dabbled with web development but haven't quite made it to paid developer status yet this may be just the program for you.

Please register for the event (it's free) here: http://fallsession2013.eventbrite.com/

The new PDX Git Together is fast-forwarding into the future!

We have a new regular venue at Elemental Technologies and there will be food provided by Puppet Labs for those that profess a boundless love for directed acyclic graphs.

Remember to thank Puppet Labs for the food!

This meeting will be a round table of questions and answers, as well as time to hack on git-related projects and get help from fellow DAG lovers.

There is usually an informal "drinkup" after the meeting at Baileys Tap Room downstairs. If you are headed to the meeting late, we may have migrated there.

Would you like to present at a future PDX Git Together? Send an email to the pdxgit mailing list and/or contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

Would you like to sponsor food or other stuff for future PDX Git Togethers? Contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

Ben Ford will be presenting about making a game in Core Animation. Conventional wisdom says it can't be done with decent performance - he has done it and lived to tell the tale. :) The sample project to be discussed is here: https://github.com/bentford/ButtonWars

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@janrain.com and hallettj@gmail.com.

7 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

A proper set of requirements are the backbone of all successful projects. Poor requirements inevitably lead to poor project performance. Requirements provide the essential link between the goal of the project and the design of outputs and products. They are the only proper basis for your project's quality efforts and are the first line of defense against scope creep. Poor requirements, by themselves, lead to rework and subsequent schedule and budget overruns, flawed designs, failed quality and testing programs, and customer dissatisfaction.

This course teaches participants how to elicit, characterize, document, analyze, validate, verify and manage requirements for new projects, products and services. This is a must have for anyone who will be part of delivering or managing a project and includes tools, flowcharts and courseware that leverage industry best practices for successfully managing and delivering requirements to stakeholders..

Included Materials

Course participants receive a course manual and CD with tools and templates for gathering, recording, and managing requirements.

Who should take this course?

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Senior Management/ Customer or Stakeholders
• Business Analysts
• Team Members responsible for gathering informational and required details for project deliverables

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Eliciting Requirements
  • Defining high-level business requirements
  • Identifying user classes & representatives
  • Selecting elicitation techniques
  • Eliciting functional & non-functional requirements from users
  • Identifying business rules
  • Reviewing requirements with users
• Requirements Analysis
  • Clarifying complex and unclear requirements
  • Evaluating & prioritizing requirements
• Requirements Documentation
  • Naming conventions and definitions
  • Documenting relevant facts and assumptions
• Requirements during the Design & Build Phase
  • Match product to prioritized requirements
  • Requirements-based quality control
  • Establishing a stakeholder acceptance process
• Requirements Change Control
  • Establishing document version control
  • Establishing change control process
  • Tracking changes
• Requirements Verification
  • Verifying requirements
  • Creating requirements traceability
• Requirements during Testing and Acceptance
  • Establishing requirements-based performance and acceptance tests
  • Requirements-based redesign & rework
• Requirements and Closing a Project
  • Acceptance of deliverables
  • Project documentation closeout process

Register

Register at http://mastering-requirements-gathering-calagator.eventbrite.com

Portland has hit the radar: Business Week has noted the stunning growth of our tech scene. Local start-ups are actually being funded fueling awareness and rivaling Portland’s larger competitors (like San Francisco).

The fuel for the fire? Accelerators (PIE: Portland Incubator Experiment) in partnership with leading brands, technology innovators, and trend setting local agencies (Wieden+Kennedy); Upstart Labs is helping grow local companies Chirpify and Celly; and the Nike+ Accelerator is powering TechStars and Nike.

PAF’s GET STARTED gives you a front-row seat by bringing together the leaders of PIE, Upstart and Nike+ Accelerator. Unearthing the magic behind growing startups, they’ll outline how advertising and digital agencies can and are providing guidance and support to bring companies to life. You’ll learn how your agency/company can participate in this trend and how you’ll benefit and grow from your own tech chops alongside your startup partners.

Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.

All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.

You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.

Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.

Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.

This will be a casual get together for women who want to hack on projects with or around other women. All types of projects (software and hardware), languages, platforms and experience levels are welcome.

Don't have anything to work on? Come, and we'll help you find a project!

What you should bring:

• Your laptop or other equipment
• Your lovely self!

We'll provide:

• the space, including lots of seating and tables
• internet
• some snacks, including gluten-free and vegan options.

Our goal is to support local women hackers (and aspiring hackers) by providing a safe, welcoming environment in which you can connect with and learn from each other.

We're kid-friendly, too, so feel free to bring your children with you.

Women Who Hack is open to all self-identified women and genderqueer persons, as well as accompanied children of all genders.

All participants of Women Who Hack agree to follow the Citizen Code of Conduct.

Questions? Get in touch: womenwhohack@stumptownsyndicate.org.

Our Google Group is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/women-who-hack.

The Portland Python community needs you!

Do you have ideas for how PDX Python could be even better? Can you spare an hour a week? Join me to learn more about what goes into organizing PDX Python and how you can be involved!

The monthly PDX Puppet User Group.

Join the PDX Puppet Google Group to get notifications of upcoming meetings.

Who should attend? Puppet users and people interested in learning more about Puppet.

We'll also be holding a raffle at 8:30pm where you can enter to win a free ticket to PuppetConf on August 22-23!

Agenda:

• 6:30 - 7:00: Eat pizza and talk to other Puppet users
• 7:00 - 7:45: Intro to Systems Orchestration with MCollective - Devon Peters
• 7:45 - 8:30: Open discussion and general Q&A
• 8:30: Raffle for a free PuppetConf ticket!

If you have an idea for what you would like to see or if you want to volunteer to present a talk, please post those ideas in the PDX Puppet Google Group

Thanks to CrowdCompass for hosting Ruby meetings every Tuesday!

ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the mailing list. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there!

PLUG: Portland's only 12-month tech conference

The Portland Linux/Unix Group has met since 1994 and hosts two conference-class speakers a month plus a hands-on clinic.

This month's topic is to be announced.

Find out more at http://pdxlinux.org

Many will head to the Lucky Lab NW after the meeting

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Pitch ideas, form teams, and build something amazing in 24 hours.

What should I bring? Bring anything that you think will make yourself productive. You definitely need a laptop, but anything beyond that is up to you!

Are we expected to sleep? The venue will be open overnight, but you can choose to sleep or keep working overnight! Please bring a pillow or sleeping bag if you feel that will make you more comfortable.

Are there any age requirements? No, the event is open to all currently enrolled students.

What languages can we use? There are no restrictions to what tools you can use (other than a few intended to prevent cheating, check the rules). If you use a language which few people know, you will have more difficulty getting help.

Some languages which are commonly used:

C#/XNA Java C++ Javascript Objective C Construct PHP Python Corona Will there be food? Yep! We'll provide lunch and dinner on Saturday, a midnight snack, and breakfast on Sunday. The cost of food is included in your ticket.

Can I go even if I don't know anything? Of course! Part of the fun of a hackathon is figuring out things as you go along. We'll also have some great workshops that you can attend. Or just hang out and have fun!

How big are the teams? We suggest 3-6 people per team. 8 is the absolute max. You can be a team of 1.

Can I be on multiple teams? Yes.

Do I need a group to attend? We'll be forming teams at the event, so you don't need to know anyone beforehand. Just show up!

Is it possible to make an app or game in such a short time? Yes! We're constantly amazed by the results of CodeDay events! Check out S.S. Halfling, and Running Blind, both games led by students at Redmond HS in Washington.

Are there any more official rules? Check out The Official Rules.

How can I contact you? Just email contact@studentrnd.org

Lets start with a simple intro to native iOS development. We'll have an overview of the process and an introduction to Xcode and Objective-C while building a simple "Hello World" style app.

Space is limited to please RSVP on the meetup web site.

http://www.meetup.com/PDX-iOS/events/124340512/

Thanks.

Julio

Test-First Mentality (BDD and TDD) , Testing Automation and Continuous Integration

14 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Learn how to manage projects from initiation to close‐out. This practical course teaches participants how to successfully initiate, plan, execute, control and close‐out projects applying industry best practices.

Based on Project Management Institute methodology, this class examines the foundation of Project Management. Students will learn Project Management concepts, helpful Project Management terminology, and established methods based on the Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Our hands‐on training is extremely practical and gives participants the conceptual and practical tools, templates, and checklists they need to collaborate on and manage projects successfully.

Learning Objectives

•Project Lifecycle Steps, Templates and Key Activities •Managing Issues, Risks and Requirements •Delivering Value and Success through Chaos and Changes •Scheduling Tools and Techniques for Managing Complex or Dynamic Projects

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Practical Project Management book, with 300+ pages of PMI approved life-cycle and thorough reference guide.

A CD with Advisicon’s best practice electronic tools and templates to aid in Project Management, and the Project Management Lifecycle flowchart.

Who should take this course?

•Project Managers •Project Team Members •Project Contributors •Project Support Team •Functional Managers •Executives

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Project Management Overview
  • The Goal of Project Management
  • Projects and Operations
  • Portfolio Management and Project Selection
  • Understanding the Project Lifecycle
  • Stakeholders, Managers and Team Members
• Executing and Controling a Project
  • Implementing Project Plans
  • Managing Requirements and Stakeholders
  • Managing Change and the Change Control Process
  • Managing Communications
  • Managing Risks, Issues, and Document
• Initiating a Project
  • Project Initiation Processes and Tools
  • Identifying Project Deliverables
  • Gathering Project Requirements
  • Developing the Scope Statement and Project Charter
  • Managing Expectations, Assumptions, and
  • Risks
• Closing Out a Project
  • Project Close‐Out Processes and Tools
  • Getting Acceptance of Project Deliverables & Requirements
  • Leading Effective Lessons‐Learned Sessions
  • Capturing and Implementing Lessons‐Learned
  • Handing‐Off Project Deliverables to
  • Operations, Customers, and Others
  • Final Reports and Project Closure
• Planning a Project
  • Project Management Planning Processes
  • Developing the Scope Management Plan
  • Developing the Project Management Plan
  • Characteristics of Good Project Planning
  • Risk Management
  • Communications Management

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise by forming workgroups that have the responsibility for planning and executing a project. Build a product according to the scope of sponsor specifications and implement the disciplines learned to deliver it within time and budget. We add twists, turns and other project real world problems for the teams to work through which adds to the fun of this creative simulation which effectively reinforces concepts and tools taught in the course.

Registration

Register at http://practical-project-management.eventbrite.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to your feedback, the OTBC/OEN/TAO Summer Camp topics are set.  Here's the plan:

• We'll present 2 workshops every week in July, and then re-run the same set in August  
• Workshops in July will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, July 9  
• Workshops in August will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, Aug. 6  
• The workshops will be a OTBC - but will also be streamed live to the web (with a chat room so you can ask questions)

Going on vacation?  Not to worry.  If you miss a workshop in July, it will come around again in August. And here's the schedule:

• How to Get Started - a Checklist of Things to Do  July 9 and Aug. 6
   
• The Top 20 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (and how to avoid them)  July 11 and Aug. 8
   
• How to Capture and Validate your Business Model Assumptions on a 1 Page Lean Canvas  July 16 and Aug. 13
   
• Customer Development - if you build it, will they buy it?  July 18 and Aug. 15
   
• How to Build a Realistic Funding Plan  July 23 and Aug. 20
   
• How to Size and Segment a Market  July 25 and Aug. 22
   
• How to Develop a Go to Market Plan  July 30 and Aug. 27
   
• How to Make Sure your Company Owns it's Intellectual Property (and Why That is Critical)  Aug. 1 and Aug. 29

Learn more and register here

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

NOTE:

This event will not be held on the first Wednesday of the month as per usual. Event moved to July 10 due to the holiday.

Also note different venue.

Agenda

Networking and refreshments 6pm-6:30pm

Presentation 6:30pm

Description

Intended for small and volunteer run nonprofits, this presentation dispels the mystery surrounding the selection and implementation of a database used to track volunteer related information such as contact info, skills, training history, schedules, time sheets, jobs, and job locations. This non-technical presentation is specifically geared towards nonprofits which are starting to outgrow their current approach to tracking, managing, and reporting on volunteer activity. The right volunteer data management solution can help free up time for managing volunteers (rather than administering the process), enable your organization to make better decisions through targeted reporting, and even increase volunteer hours by making it easier for individuals to engage with your nonprofit.

Those organizations currently using paper, spreadsheets, or desktop databases will benefit just as much as those nonprofits already using a purpose built volunteer management system. Join us, share your own experiences, and learn from others as you are walked through the process of choosing and putting in a volunteer management system that best meets the unique needs of your organization.

Key Takeaways Include:

• A step by step process for selecting the right database to recruit, schedule, coordinate, and communicate with volunteers as well as produce reports for use within the organization
• A roadmap for moving to the new volunteer management system
• Common selection and implementation issues and how to avoid them

About the presenter

Jeff Turner, PMP is the Principal at NPO Back Office, a company specializing in supporting the technology needs of small and volunteer run nonprofits. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Mr. Turner is an accomplished Information Technology professional, nonprofit leader and volunteer who spent the first 18 years of his career improving organizational efficiency and integrating mission critical systems for some of the most widely recognized companies in the Pacific Northwest. He now takes great pleasure in helping nonprofits leverage technology to reduce labor requirements and improve organizational communication.

What you'll get out of PDXTech4Good events

• Nonprofit staffers will find a friendly, welcoming atmosphere for those not experienced with technology, and many chances to ask questions of tech-experienced nonprofits and experts.
• Techies will find opportunities to hear the real-world stories of nonprofit clients, and put their own expertise to social good � as well as the potential for lasting relationships (be they paid or volunteer) with leading organizations in our community.
• Activists and community organizers will see and be given the chance to present on successful uses of technology for social change. We'll explore how technology can help support activism and where activism can push it forward.

The Ford Immersive Vehicle Environment (FiVE) applies a variety of real-time, advanced visualization technologies to allow efficient, quick and effective evaluations of vehicle design proposals. Ford is using virtual and augmented reality in a unique and amazing way to simulate a multitude of customer perspectives very early in the development process. Their approach is different…it combines the best of what the virtual and physical worlds have to offer.

How did Ford get there? Elizabeth will explain how the need for FiVE was fulfilled, the importance of quantifying the vehicle-owner subjective relationship, and the consideration of human-machine interaction. She will explain the totally awesome VR systems used at Ford and the successes and challenges of virtual reviews. She will relay the practical (and impractical) principles Ford employs regarding conducting virtual assessments, as well as the types of assessments that are used in vehicle development and engineering. Elizabeth will detail how Ford quantifies the emotional connection between you and your car. And she will also provide insight on where gaps exist in the current suite of VR tools, and thoughts on the future of human/computer interaction for vehicle engineering and design.

About the Speaker Elizabeth Baron is a Technical Specialist in Virtual Reality and Advanced Visualization at Ford Motor Company. She manages the Ford immersive Vehicle Evaluation (FiVE) Lab in Product Development, and provides immersive virtual reality evaluation systems used for industrial design and product development. She develops and deploys highly realistic immersive systems that address the unique challenges of automotive design, engineering and ergonomics. She has led the development of immersive VR systems that satisfy evaluation criteria for engineering, ergonomics and aesthetic design to allow different disciplines in product development to communicate in a common environment.

Elizabeth began her career at Ford in 1988 working as a software developer for Ford’s product design software, later specializing in visualization and solid modeling software. She received her BS in Industrial Technology and Computer Science from Eastern Michigan University. She is also a qualified Six Sigma Academy Black Belt. She is a member of the Human Motion Simulation Consortium at the University of Michigan, the Society of Automotive Engineers, IEEE and ACM.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to your feedback, the OTBC/OEN/TAO Summer Camp topics are set.  Here's the plan:

• We'll present 2 workshops every week in July, and then re-run the same set in August  
• Workshops in July will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, July 9  
• Workshops in August will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday, Aug. 6  
• The workshops will be a OTBC - but will also be streamed live to the web (with a chat room so you can ask questions)

Going on vacation?  Not to worry.  If you miss a workshop in July, it will come around again in August. And here's the schedule:

• How to Get Started - a Checklist of Things to Do  July 9 and Aug. 6
   
• The Top 20 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (and how to avoid them)  July 11 and Aug. 8
   
• How to Capture and Validate your Business Model Assumptions on a 1 Page Lean Canvas  July 16 and Aug. 13
   
• Customer Development - if you build it, will they buy it?  July 18 and Aug. 15
   
• How to Build a Realistic Funding Plan  July 23 and Aug. 20
   
• How to Size and Segment a Market  July 25 and Aug. 22
   
• How to Develop a Go to Market Plan  July 30 and Aug. 27
   
• How to Make Sure your Company Owns it's Intellectual Property (and Why That is Critical)  Aug. 1 and Aug. 29

Learn more and register here

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Free Pizza! Ok, now that I have your attention: Welcome to the first meetings of the Portland Sass & Front-end Meetup Group! We'll be meeting the 2nd Thursday of every month at Puppet Labs in the Pearl District. The presentation will start at 6pm and be done a little after 7 giving everyone plenty of time to mingle over pizza and talk about all things Sassy.

Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.

All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.

You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.

Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.

Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.

28 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

Your career depends on your ability to demonstrate Industry Best Practices in project management. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is the industry standard for project managers to validate and certify that you understand and can manage projects to Industry Best Practices.

This course prepares you to take and pass the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam from the Project Management Institute (PMI), by offering an in-depth examination of the required study areas. The experienced Advisicon instructors know the exam inside and out, and share their valuable tips and tricks for mastering the PMBOK concepts and passing the exam.

Included Materials

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 4th Edition is the global standard for project management and is provided to course participants. It outlines the PMI framework of 9 Knowledge areas, 5 Process Groups, and the 44 Processes contained in the PMP exam.

Advisicon provides students with a copy of Kim Heldman’s comprehensive PMP Study Guide. This comprehensive exam study guide includes a CD with practice exams, exam prep software, electronic flashcards, and over two hours of additional audio review. All exam objectives, as well as essential PMP topics, concepts, and key terms are covered. This is an essential tool for passing the PMP exam.

Who should to take this course?

Anyone preparing to take and PASS the the Project Management Institute's PMP exam. Please see the PMI website to review eligibility requirements.

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• The 5 major project management processes, including inputs, outputs, tools, techniques, and terminology
• How each process relates to the 9 project management knowledge areas
• The project management framework and how processes flow within it
• The professional responsibility subject matter PMI has added to the exam
• The PMI formulas related to cost, time, quality, and risk, and the ability to apply them in real scenarios
• How to produce network diagrams, calculate critical path, float, and lag, and the terms, tools, and techniques that apply to them
• Test taking strategies to help you understand and decode PMI's test questions and avoid common traps and pitfalls
• A working knowledge of PMI's vocabulary and terms.

Registration

Register at http://pmp-exam-prep.eventbrite.com/

BEFORE you write the code, verify that you're developing the right product for the market, that they'll pay what you think, and that you can actually make money!

The Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics meeting

Every month we have a more hands-on meeting to compliment our 1st Thursday General meeting.

Topic to be announced

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

A startup is an organization that is searching for a business model that works. It's critical to understand that a startup's business model is a set of assumptions - and those assumptions need to be tested, earlier rather than later! And earlier means before you develop the product or service! (But even if you've already started developing the product is still the right time to validate the business model!)

A 1 page business model canvas is an excellent way to capture the assumptions underlying your business model, so you can methodically test those assumptions. In this workshop, you'll learn about the lean startup approach, and be introduced to the 1 Page Lean Business Model Canvas, and discuss how you can use the canvas to test each assumption in the model. Then you'll work through a “hands on” exercise where you complete and present to the group a portion of your 1 page lean canvas. All participants will receive printed copies of the Lean Canvas to use, and will also be provided with a PowerPoint version of the canvas so they can continue to create canvases on a computer.

Who should attend: Anyone who is starting a business and has not yet developed and tested the business model for that business. This material and process is relevant for any startup - not just tech startups.

Presenter: Steve Morris Steve Morris is the Executive Director of OTBC and the Managing Director of OregonStartups.com. He is a veteran of three start-ups, and has more than 25 years of management experience in the software, service, and semiconductor test industries at companies such as Hewlett Packard, Integrated Measurement Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Mentor Graphics, Credence Corporation and Teseda Corporation. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Reed College and a Masters of Science degree from Carnegie-Mellon University Graduate School of Industrial Administration (now The Tepper School of Business).

When: Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Time: 9:00am - Noon

Where: Hillsboro Chamber of Commmerce, 5193 NE Elam Young Parkway, Suite A, Hillsboro, OR 97124

OEN & HCC Member: $32 Non-Member $70

We'll talk about how to apply Steve Blank's ideas for continuing to work with customers all the way through the development process - to verify not only that you're building the right thing, but that you'll know how to sell it.

Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.

All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.

You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.

Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.

Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.

David Christiansen (a major Idris committer) is going to be in town for a bit - thought we'd have some folks into programming in dependently-typed languages (e.g. Idris, Agda, Coq) get together while he's here.

The Community Leadership Summit 2013 brings together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community.

The event pulls together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community.

At the heart of Community Leadership Summit 2013 is an open unconference-style event in which everyone who attends is welcome to lead and contribute sessions on any topic that is relevant. These sessions are very much discussion sessions: the participants can interact directly, offer thoughts and experience, and share ideas and questions. These unconference sessions are also augmented with a series of presentations from leaders in the field, panel debates and networking opportunities.

Save the Date: OSCON returns to the Oregon Convention Center July 22-26, 2013

14 PDUs available for this course.

Course Description

Quit doing all manual work in Excel! Come learn to use a dynamic, resource driven reporting tool from industry experts. This course is designed to help you manage and master MS Project from simple task management to Program and Portfolio management.

Learn how to create and maintain easily dynamic schedules, and address resource demand and capacity, over and under allocations all with visual reporting and proven techniques by 20+ year industry veterans. This course trains participants how to plan, forecast, build, and manage project tasks and resources and to combine issues, risks, deliverables and dashboards in one central tool

Learning Objectives

• Create, manage, and update effective project schedules
• Create and manage resources, resource pools and assignments
• Learn the do’s and don’ts of working with Microsoft® Project Professional
• Create useful views for tracking, dashboards, printing, task usage, etc.
• Formatting tricks for automating critical path tracking
• Use reporting functions more effectively

Included Materials

This course includes a complimentary copy of Advisicon's Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 book.

Who should take this course?

Project managers, project team members, project schedulers… and anyone who has used Microsoft Project Professional and had a hard time getting it to do what they wanted!

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Effective Use of Microsoft Project
  • MS Project Overview
  • Avoiding the pitfalls of working with MS Project
  • Creating project schedules, segments, milestones
  • Creating task relationships & dependencies
  • Setting task constraints and outlining
• Managing and Tracking of Projects
  • Utilizing scheduling methods to shorten the critical path of a project
  • Utilizing MS Project Tools and Views to resolve resource conflicts
  • Advanced resource scheduling techniques
  • Managing costs, tracking baselines
  • Tracking completion of actual work between tasks and resources
  • Applying resource contours for forecasting and analyzing resource availability
  • Managing and viewing planned and actual durations, costs and schedules
• Applying Resources and Calendars
  • Creating and utilizing resource pools
  • Applying layers of calendars
  • Utilizing project views
  • Formatting schedule layouts
  • Utilizing project reports
  • Understanding printing
• Working with External Data & Applications
  • Linking data between applications
  • Importing & exporting data
  • Hyperlinking and web pages
  • Utilizing business analysis templates
• Customizing for Better Management Results
  • Using filters, tables, details and groups
  • Creating views, filters, tables, and groups
  • MS Project scheduling methodologies
  • Utilizing effort‐driven scheduling

Simulation

We provide a hands-on project simulation exercise where the participants can have actual tactical experience creating a schedule, linking tasks, creating custom views, along with best practice knowledge transfer on topics such as critical path methodology, project tracking, and Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts. Participants will also walk away with an understanding of how the schedule engine within Microsoft Project functions and will no longer need to ‘game’ the software, but can now let the software work for them.

Registration

Register at http://managing-projects-with-microsoft-project-2010.eventbrite.com/

Investors rarely fund an "idea" stage company. But there are sources of early stage money. We'll run down the list and talk about what it takes to get the seed funding you need to get started.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Do you have a SaaS site that you run? Then you should come to our event! We are entrepreneurs who run and/or manage small software as a service businesses.

Your app can be written in any language we welcome all technical abilities, programming languages, and business stages.

The important thing is that you have passion for technology and are interested in hanging out with other like-minded folk.

We meet on the 4th Wednesday of every month at the Green Dragon in SE Portland.

This is a new group, so volunteers and suggestions are welcome.

Doug Mason will show us how to integrate apps with Twitter and Facebook, both the new iOS 6 way and the way we did it in the Dark Ages, I mean before iOS 6. :)

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

How big is your market? Is it big enough to generate investor interest? Is it big enough to make your growth plans feasible? How (and why) do you segment a market? Should you pick just one segment first? Why and How? Those are just some of the questions we'll address in this workshop.

Come do strange things with computers amongst others whilst drinking fine Portland beer. Look for the row of geeks with computers in the back of the main room.

All programming languages welcome. Come work on your own projects, work on others participants' projects, get advice, have fun, etc.

You're encouraged to bring a computer, but can team up with others that brought one too.

Afterwards, the group descends on the 12th and Hawthorne foodcart pod for additional nourishment.

Also, many people meet up at the pub during the same time as the hackathon to play boardgames they bring which you're welcomed to play.

7 PDUs available for this course

Course Description

A proper set of requirements are the backbone of all successful projects. Poor requirements inevitably lead to poor project performance. Requirements provide the essential link between the goal of the project and the design of outputs and products. They are the only proper basis for your project's quality efforts and are the first line of defense against scope creep. Poor requirements, by themselves, lead to rework and subsequent schedule and budget overruns, flawed designs, failed quality and testing programs, and customer dissatisfaction.

This course teaches participants how to elicit, characterize, document, analyze, validate, verify and manage requirements for new projects, products and services. This is a must have for anyone who will be part of delivering or managing a project and includes tools, flowcharts and courseware that leverage industry best practices for successfully managing and delivering requirements to stakeholders..

Included Materials

Course participants receive a course manual and CD with tools and templates for gathering, recording, and managing requirements.

Who should take this course?

• Project Managers
• Project Team Members
• Senior Management/ Customer or Stakeholders
• Business Analysts
• Team Members responsible for gathering informational and required details for project deliverables

Course Instructors & Accreditation

Advisicon is a Project Management Institute (PMI) Registered Education Provider (REP) and an accredited Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. This course will be taught by an experienced Advisicon instructor, all of whom are industry experts in the field of project management.

Course Outline

• Eliciting Requirements
  • Defining high-level business requirements
  • Identifying user classes & representatives
  • Selecting elicitation techniques
  • Eliciting functional & non-functional requirements from users
  • Identifying business rules
  • Reviewing requirements with users
• Requirements Analysis
  • Clarifying complex and unclear requirements
  • Evaluating & prioritizing requirements
• Requirements Documentation
  • Naming conventions and definitions
  • Documenting relevant facts and assumptions
• Requirements during the Design & Build Phase
  • Match product to prioritized requirements
  • Requirements-based quality control
  • Establishing a stakeholder acceptance process
• Requirements Change Control
  • Establishing document version control
  • Establishing change control process
  • Tracking changes
• Requirements Verification
  • Verifying requirements
  • Creating requirements traceability
• Requirements during Testing and Acceptance
  • Establishing requirements-based performance and acceptance tests
  • Requirements-based redesign & rework
• Requirements and Closing a Project
  • Acceptance of deliverables
  • Project documentation closeout process

Register

Register at http://mastering-requirements-gathering-calagator.eventbrite.com

Is the siloed internet over? It's too early to tell, but personal cloud is showing tremendous promise as a counter-paradigm that holds the promise of both providing most or all of the services that we currently enjoy and doing so in a way that is vastly more consistent with more stringent understanding of privacy and consent. While there are numerous countries making slow progress on the personal cloud front, none, as far as I know, are considering Riak as a data store for personal clouds. In this talk, I'd like to make the case for Riak as being an ideal technology for this.

What does "go to market" mean? How do you launch a product or service? How do you create awareness? What is the role of marketing and sales? What metrics should you measure in your sales process? What is a sales funnel, and how do you manage it? When it comes to launching a product or service, there's a lot to consider!

Repeats on Aug. 27

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

The inaugural IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability will be a 1 day event focused on a cross-disciplinary look at advances in available as well as emerging technologies that advance the goals of long-term economic, societal and environmental sustainability for humanity.

In this workshop, we'll talk about your intellectual property (All startups have intellectual property, whether they know it or not!)

Topics: What is intellectual property, why it is critical for the company to own the right intellectual property, and what you need to do to make sure your intellectual property is protected.

PLUG: Portland's only 12-month tech conference

The Portland Linux/Unix Group has met since 1994 and hosts two conference-class speakers a month plus a hands-on clinic.

This month's topic is to be announced.

Find out more at http://pdxlinux.org

Many will head to the Lucky Lab NW after the meeting

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) panel discussion: experts talk about Salesforce, CiviCRM, and RedHen.

Stop by for discussion, networking with the nonprofit tech crowd and refreshments!

Presenters

Brett Meyer and Sean Larkin - ThinkShout - RedHen

Stuart Gaston - Korlon - CiviCRM

Lila Pigott and Cat Monaghan - Idealist Consulting - Salesforce

Agenda

Networking and refreshments 6pm-6:30pm

Presentation 6:30pm

What you'll get out of PDXTech4Good events

• Nonprofit staffers will find a friendly, welcoming atmosphere for those not experienced with technology, and many chances to ask questions of tech-experienced nonprofits and experts.
• Techies will find opportunities to hear the real-world stories of nonprofit clients, and put their own expertise to social good � as well as the potential for lasting relationships (be they paid or volunteer) with leading organizations in our community.
• Activists and community organizers will see and be given the chance to present on successful uses of technology for social change. We'll explore how technology can help support activism and where activism can push it forward.

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

The art of tailoring/integrating Agile into an Organization - Dave Harrison will be joining us to demonstrate how you can adopt Agile techniques in a way that fit in YOUR company's structure!

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

The Portland Linux/Unix Group Advanced Topics meeting

Every month we have a more hands-on meeting to compliment our 1st Thursday General meeting.

Topic to be announced

Many will head to the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne after the meeting.

Friday, August 23, 2013

This premier educational event takes place every August.

Come join us to . . .

• Learn the latest tools, tips, techniques and trends in project, program and portfolio management that will help you take your career to the next level and improve your organizational success.

• Network and share ideas and experiences with executives, project, program and portfolio managers, sponsors, and other practitioners from a wide variety of industries, government agencies, and educational institutions.

• Earn professional development units (PDUs) toward maintaining your PMI credential.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

Justin Miller will present about Cocoapods.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

TechFestNW (formerly known as PDXconf) is designed to celebrate interesting people who are passionate about technology. Who are building a better world. And who value craft over commodity.

The event takes place in conjunction with MusicFestNW, one of the largest independent music festivals in the US. Last year, MFNW attracted acts from up-and-coming artists to bands like Passion Pit, Dinosaur Jr, Silversun Pickups, and Girl Talk. While the inaugural tech event featured speakers from Flipboard, Betaworks, Walmart Labs, GigaOM, Shazam, and Spotify---as well as local favorites like Draplin Design Co, LAIKA, Chirpify, Simple, and Nike.

TFNW will take place September 6-8, 2013, with speakers the 6th and 7th and a hackathon on the 8th. Tech takes place during the day. And music takes place during the night. Creating a true festival atmosphere.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Note - this meeting is a week earlier than usual - Organizer's Prerogative, to not conflict with a personal event.

Joseph Jaramillo will talk about "Core Data and NSFetchedResultsController, for Fun and Profit". :)

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

Portland's favorite annual geography unconference is back again! Stay tuned for more details.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

LEGO KidsFest brings all of the creative hands-on, minds-on fun of LEGO building and experiences together in one activity- and entertainment-packed family event for children of all ages and builders of all skills and interests.

Join us at the 12th Beaver BarCamp hosted by the OSU Open Source Lab. BBC is a semi-annual interactive unconference where the attendees determine the topics! It's an opportunity to share your experiences and learn about what other people are doing on campus and in the community.

Topics can range from technical to recreational. Share your love for programming or teach people how to whistle (already been done!). All you need to do is show up and sign up to host a session. Or you can just attend! We'll have refreshments throughout the day and a limited amount of t-shirts.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

Justin Miller will show us how to use Xcode tools from the command line. Excellent for scripting.

The monthly meeting of Portland's first JavaScript and ECMAscript users' group. We host presentations and discussions on everything JavaScript-related - including JavaScript frameworks, node.js, CoffeeScript, and whatever else comes up.

Feel free to join our mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/pdxjs if you too are a JavaScript admirer. Or visit our web site for more information at http://pdxjs.com/.

If you're interested in making a presentation at this or at a future meet-up, please e-mail luc@appfog.com.

We are still looking for presenters for this meet-up, so please contact me if there's something you'd like to share with us!

Get together for lunch and talk Ruby, or something else! For those that have a hard time making it to the pdxrb meeting, and those that like to eat and talk about Ruby at the same time. We'll be holding this on the last Wednesday of the month.

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us for Pythonic talks!

This month:

• TBD by TBD

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Note - this meeting is a week earlier than usual due to Thanksgiving.

Joseph Jaramillo will help demystify Auto Layout.

Let's get together and build cool stuff.

Bring your computer and your Python projects and come hack with us from 6-9pm on fourth Tuesdays!

Never written Python before? No problem. There will be Pythonistas at the ready to mentor beginners. Anyone at any level of Python experience is welcome and invited to join us!

The Commodore Computer Club meetings are open to anyone with an interest in Commodore technology. Our attendees come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and all are welcome.

Come to learn, come to share. It’s all for the love of anything Commodore.

Come join us and learn about Joomla!

Super Models in 3D!!!!

Scott Neal will kick off 2014 in style with another installment of his annual Core Data presentation series. This year it's super models, aka how to design your data model so you're working with Core Data instead of against it.

Elizabeth Taylor will reprise her popular presentation about doing testing with UIAutomation. This time with sample code!

Joel Bernstein will present about Reactive Cocoa.