Highly effective and productive teams are built on a foundation of trust. Without it, teams are unlikely to engage in unfiltered, passionate debate about key issues—or speak up when mistakes are made, there is confusion, or there is a need for help. Said another way, when vulnerable trust is lacking … our already complex transformation initiatives risk failure before they even begin!

Join former four-time CIO and best-selling author of People Before Things, Chris Laping, in this 60-minute webinar to learn how you can identify if your project team lacks vulnerable trust.

This session is part of the Quest Spring 2022 Learning Series: Transformation and Modernization. View the additional series sessions here.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100460

Unit tests are useful. Unit tests are essential. All of us are doing the UT, aren't we? We try to do our best but in real life, UT is expensive and consumes a lot of time. When we finally find a bug - it turns out that the bug is in the test itself.

And the deadline is coming...

Can we do the UT easier, less expensive, and more effective?

YES, WE CAN!

I would like to show you how to prepare yourself, your application, and your code to perform Unit Tests in a fast, efficient, and exciting way! How to do Unit Tests and not go crazy (and bankrupt) - true story.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100800

Don't miss another critical deadline that makes you look bad. Understand why this happens to you and what you can do to avoid it. The short version is focus, but this session will help you understand why it is not as simple as just telling yourself to focus. Don't worry, you will walk out of this session learning ways to improve your focus. Whether or not you implement them is up to you.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100430

After the events of 2020 – a once-in-a-century pandemic, an unprecedented economic downturn, social upheaval, and several hotly-contested political races - it’s easy to become discontented with your IT career path, and maybe even consider a different line of work. But the truth is that the future of IT is so incredibly bright and its horizons so tremendously broadened that the exact opposite is true: You’d better get your sunglasses ready, and you might even want to buy a few more pairs.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 101610

A task can be done in a very short way and in a very long way. Which one will you choose? Knowledge is Power! This session gives lots of interesting knowledge about an allegedly boring topic - Constraints. And this knowledge will give you the power to optimize and make better decisions.

The behavior of adding columns and constraints to big tables in Oracle may vary significantly, in two aspects - duration and availability - based on the way we perform these operations. In addition, different constraints may have different impact, based on their syntax, types, states, locking, etc.

Attend this session to understand what happens exactly under the hood when we issue a simple ALTER TABLE statement, and how to utilize this knowledge for achieving better performance or higher availability.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 101550

Cloud Computing already dominates the IT landscape. As Oracle Cloud adoption grows exponentially, a skills gap is also on the rise. Join Oracle ACE Director, Basheer Khan, as he introduces you the Oracle Cloud landscape, identifies skills that are in demand and provides a roadmap to bridge your skills gap. Whether you are an Oracle developer, database administrator, functional expert or manager: attend this presentation to understand how you can upgrade your existing skills to stay relevant in the Oracle Cloud Computing world.

Presented at INSYNC 21

Session ID: 100790

Just the word NETWORKING leaves a bad taste in the mouth of many technical people.  At least when you are not talking about TCP/IP, fiber or CAT6.  After all, one thing that attracted many of us to the IT world was not needing to deal with people. 

This session will help erase that bad taste by showing you how networking can help your career in more ways than you expect.  It can also be pretty easy to do if you do just a little planning.

Employees with better networking skills are beneficial to employers as your network is a resource that you can use to be a more effective problem solver.