2004 Borland Conference: StarTeam Track Schedule

Learn how to utilize the StarTeam® automated configuration and change management system to manage the key stages of the software development lifecycle. Sessions will focus on requirements and changes, tracking defects and threaded discussions, and how to manage the tasks required by effective project management.

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Sunday, September 12, 2004 — 8:00am - 12:00pm

3042 Complete ALM for the Microsoft .NET Framework Session Change

John Kaster — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This tutorial covers the complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) integration solution with Diamondback, including development, requirements management, configuration management, modeling, testing and debugging, performance tuning, documentation, and deploying applications.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Delphi and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Room: A1/A8

Sunday, September 12, 2004 — 1:00pm - 5:00pm

2010 Developing Custom Utilities and Integrations with StarTeam and CaliberRM
Lilac Ezer — Code Alloy, LLC

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
Learn how the StarTeam and CaliberRM SDKs allow you to use your preferred programming language to build custom integrations, forms, and utilities that increase the efficiency of your software process.
Prerequisites: Understanding of StarTeam and CaliberRM functionality. Some programming experience in any language.
Room: A6

Monday, September 13, 2004 — 10:00am - 11:15am

1176a Business Process Modeling for ALM * Speaker Change

Ian Buchanan — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session demonstrates how to apply the principles of BPM to Borland ALM and using Borland ALM products to achieve CMM certification or compliance.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: B3

3190a StarTeam Security Explained! *
Ron Sauers — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Confused by the StarTeam security model? Learn about ACEs, object ACLs, container ACLs, privileges and object ownership, and how these basic security concepts relate to each other in the StarTeam access test algorithm. Understand how to best configure security for your own StarTeam projects.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with access rights in StarTeam.
Room: C2

Monday, September 13, 2004 — 2:00pm - 3:15pm

1130 CASE STUDY: Applying ALM to a Multifaceted Project
Miroslav Novak — Borland

Type: Case Study. Level: All.
This session covers applying an ALM solution to a project that has larger concerns than just code. In this case, the management of source code was also accompanied by content and graphic design.
Prerequisites: Understanding of the basics of the Borland ALM solution, particularly aspects of CaliberRM and StarTeam.
Room: B3

2108a StarTeam New Features *
John Sileski — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session provides an overview of the features and enhancements added to StarTeam since last year's Borland Conference.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: C3

Monday, September 13, 2004 — 3:30pm - 4:45pm

1164 Requirements to Realization using Borland Enterprise Studio for Java
Rick Nadler — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session demonstrates how to use JBuilder to manage the life-cycle of a complete application from requirements, design, development, testing, and tuning through deployment.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with application lifecycle management (ALM) concepts.
Room: B1/B4

3218a Using Together with CaliberRM and StarTeam * Session Change

Don Doherty — NDCHealth, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Once you've decided on using Together, CaliberRM and StarTeam to automate your process, your next most critical task is rolling out the toolset to your organization. Hear suggestions for planning and implementing the Borland suite rollout so that the tools enable your organization's process and your process takes advantage of tool features. During this session, we talk about the structure of your source code and meta-data repositories, how to maintain a fully integrated source code and meta-data repository while allowing for in-flight UML diagrams and code, determining what artifacts will be created and when, and many other practical lessons learned through setting up and using Together, CaliberRM, and StarTeam in a large project environment.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Together.
Room: A7

4124 Understanding StarTeam Enterprise Advantage
Steve Reynolds — Elite Associates

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
StarTeam Enterprise Advantage provides the core of Borland Application Lifecycle Management products by allowing you to create and enforce a fully customized development process. This session provides an introduction to the many features of StarTeam Enterprise Advantage including form customization using JBuilder, workflow definition, automatic email notification and configuration of StarTeam Enterprise Advantage Web Edition. This session also examines the various points of integration among StarTeam and CaliberRM, JBuilder, and other Borland ALM products.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of StarTeam, SCM and ALM.
Room: C2

Monday, September 13, 2004 — 5:00pm - 6:15pm

3208 Borland Search Server: The Borland ALM Search Engine Session Change

John Sileski — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session introduces a completely new product, Borland Search Server, that applies Internet-style indexing, search, and data discovery capabilities specifically to diverse enterprise data silos. Learn the business problems that Borland Search Server addresses, get an overview of the technologies and methodologyy used, and see a practical demonstration.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: C3

4126 StarTeam SDK Advanced Programming Topics
Ron Sauers — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
This session is intended for application developers who are familiar with the StarTeam SDK and are ready to take their skills to the next level. Topics include performance tuning, instant refresh, event handling, and more.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the StarTeam SDK.
Room: C2

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 8:00am - 9:15am

1158 Project Retrospectives
Miroslav Novak — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
One practice that relies on and fosters continued learning and improvement is some form of retrospective activity, regardless of its formality. In this session, we explore retrospective activity as a tool of change.
Prerequisites: General understanding of the Borland ALM suite.
Room: C2

3108 Getting the Most Out of StarTeam Web Edition
John Sileski — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session covers best practices and customization methods to help get the most out of using StarTeam Web Edition.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: C3

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 9:30am - 10:45am

2154 Tracking Deliverables and Managing Change
Don Kranz — PROCESSexchange, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Use Borland ALM solutions, such as CaliberRM, StarTeam, and Together, to embrace change in your projects, manage deliverables, and produce meaningful productivity metrics that satisfy both management and development teams.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: B3

3178 24 X 7 StarTeam Session Change

Randy Guck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Software Configuration Management, Change Management, and other ALM processes are quickly becoming mission-critical processes within the enterprise. Correspondingly, organizations that depend on StarTeam are seeking ways to maximize its availability and resiliency to keep development teams running uninterrupted. In this session, StarTeam high-availability topics such as on-line backups, 24x7 operation, and fail-over techniques are discussed. Come learn about new StarTeam capabilities and techniques that afford continuous operation in the global enterprise.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of StarTeam concepts and terms.
Room: C2

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 1:30pm - 2:45pm

3182a Retooling RUP to Borland ALM *
Don Kranz — PROCESSexchange, Inc.
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Map the Borland ALM solution (the define, design, develop, test, deploy, manage process) to the RUP disciplines and see how you can accelerate your teams by providing much needed guidance in the implementation of your corporate solutions.
Prerequisites: Some knowledge of RUP and Borland ALM products.
Room: B3

3190b StarTeam Security Explained! *
Ron Sauers — Borland

3200 Successfully Managing the Software Development Lifecycle
Martin Rudy — R & R Consulting
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Learn tips on how to successfully manage software projects and how to avoid some common mistakes that too often prevent completion of a project. Topics range from all aspects of the project lifecycle, single and multiple developers, internal vs. external developers, handling geographically dispersed teams, and how to work with difficult clients.
Prerequisites: Understanding of software development and major tasks required to start and complete an application from a management perspective.
Room: J3

3218b Using Together with CaliberRM and StarTeam * Session Change

Don Doherty — NDCHealth, Inc.

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 3:00pm - 4:15pm

3184a Optimizing StarTeam for Distributed Teams *
Randy Guck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Software development teams are increasingly becoming spread around the globe. Organizations are leveraging new talents, time zones, and tools made possible by a networked world. If you work on a distributed team, how should you manage lifecycle tools with shared repositories such as StarTeam? If you centralize files, change requests, and other ALM assets, how can you address performance and reliability? If you replicate artifacts to distributed teams, how do you handle synchronization and conflicts? In this session, learn why replication is dead and how StarTeam provides new techniques for distributed team productivity. Learn how to use StarTeam to provide exceptional performance for distributed teams without the headaches of replication.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of StarTeam concepts and terms.
Room: C2

3232a Traceability and Linking with CaliberRM * Session Change

Leigh Crawford — Dunn Solutions Group, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Requirements seem to be ever-changing, and every software professional is familiar with the impact that a requirement change can have on all phases of product development. One of the key benefits of CaliberRM is that it give you the ability to trace to other key artifacts in any organization. This session demonstrates how CaliberRM integrates to all StarTeam artifacts, TestDirector test cases, MSProject project plans, other requirements, and more. The significance of setting up these traces is demonstrated, as well as the tools included in CaliberRM to identify potential risk from changing a requirement.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with CaliberRM and tracing functionality.
Room: C3

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 4:30pm - 5:45pm

2108b StarTeam New Features *
John Sileski — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session provides an overview of the features and enhancements added to StarTeam since last year's Borland Conference.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: C3

3186 Extending StarTeam with JBuilder for Maximum Developer Productivity Session Change

Steve Reynolds — Elite Associates

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Combining JBuilder and StarTeam Enterprise Advantage gives your team the ability to implement and deploy an integrated development process making it easy to get the right information at the right time, reducing confusion and improving productivity. This presentation covers some of the techniques that you can use to customize the change request, task, and requirement forms and apply workflows to each of these categories of development process information. In addition to reviewing the basic workflow and form customization features, we discuss several techniques and demonstrate them using JBuilder. These techniques include layout methods, interfield dependencies, and automatic promotion of changes based on the user-defined workflow. We present real-world examples of these techniques used in large development organizations.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of JBuilder and StarTeam Enterprise Advantage.
Room: C2

4128 Targeting Java, COM, and .NET with the StarTeam SDK
Ron Sauers — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
Using the StarTeam SDK, you can develop StarTeam applications for Java, Win32/COM and the Microsoft .NET Framework. However, what if your application must target multiple platforms? Developers want to take advantage of platform-specific features but are not willing to write everything twice. Learn how the StarTeam SDK team approaches this problem, and use similar techniques for your own applications.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the StarTeam SDK.
Room: B3

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 — 8:00pm - 9:00pm

1106 PANEL: Meet the CaliberRM and StarTeam Development Teams New Session

Moderator: Martin Frid-Nielsen — Borland

Type: Panel Discussion. Level: All.
Come participate in our interactive discussion. It's not about where our products take you, it's about where StarTeam and CaliberRM allow you to go. This session covers global distributed development, team solutions, process-driven development, high availability, offshoring, reporting, development metrics, and our view of the horizon.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: C3

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 8:00am - 9:15am

1176b Business Process Modeling for ALM * Speaker Change

Ian Buchanan — Borland
CaliberRM

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 9:30am - 10:45am

2144 Manage Change or It Will Manage You!
Betty Luedke — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Understanding the anatomy of change and the all-too-familiar surrounding circumstances/dynamics help us use proven approaches effectively to manage requests for change and to facilitate product evolution.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: B3

3184b Optimizing StarTeam for Distributed Teams *
Randy Guck — Borland

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 11:00am - 12:15pm

3232b Traceability and Linking with CaliberRM * Session Change

Leigh Crawford — Dunn Solutions Group, Inc.

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 — 1:15pm - 2:30pm

3160 Using ANT to Automate StarTeam Tasks
David Scruggs — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Administrators and developers often use ANT to automate builds. A functional set of tasks for StarTeam already ships with ANT. However, ANT also can use the rich command-line client to perform many tasks above and beyond simple builds. Additionally, StarTeam provides a rich Java SDK that can be exposed and utilized to allow ANT scripts to automate a number of tasks. This session focuses on the following areas: basic ANT scripting for StarTeam; troubleshooting; advanced scripts using the command-line client; and, advanced scripts and functionality using the StarTeam SDK.
Prerequisites: Java knowledge and basic StarTeam administration experience.
Room: C2

3182b Retooling RUP to Borland ALM *
Don Kranz — PROCESSexchange, Inc.
CaliberRM

1004 Applying the Unified Process
Charles Suscheck — Colorado State University

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: All.
This tutorial is a concentrated workshop aimed at teaching, through in-class examples and hands-on application, how to develop a system using the Unified Process (UP) -- the public domain basis of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). The emphasis is on creating good use cases, developing domain models, mapping domain models to design diagrams and determining which UP documents are effective in various scenarios. The tutorial applies Borland tools: CaliberRM is used to capture requirements and use cases, and Together is used to create use case models, domain models, and design diagrams.The relationship between process and StarTeam is also discussed.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with object-oriented programming, analysis, and design.

2014 A Year in the Life of an ALM Project
Leigh Crawford — Dunn Solutions Group, Inc.
CaliberRM

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
Are you considering new application lifecycle products? Have you been asked to deploy these products in your organization? Will you need to measure the return on investment that will result? If so, then this tutorial is for you! We guide you through all stages of the ALM implementation process, from initial evaluation, customization, and deployment to measurement of the productivity gains you have achieved. This tutorial combines general information on managing organizational change and specific Borland product features that integrate ALM into the development environment with the practical experiences of NDC Health, a user of the entire Borland ALM solution that has measured the return on investment.
Prerequisites: None.

3018 Requirements to Realization using Borland Enterprise Studio for Java
Rick Nadler — Borland
CaliberRM

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
This tutorial provides an in-depth examination of Java Studio to control the lifecycle of a complete application from requirements, design, development, testing, and tuning through deployment. Coverage includes emphasis on individual elements of the ALM suite, using JBuilder as the cockpit for driving the lifecycle.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with ALM concepts.

3122 Integrating StarTeam in the Current Process
Micha Somers — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to integrate StarTeam in existing environments, customizing it to efficiently support the processes that are in place. Topics covered are: configuration of StarTeam; adjusting the StarTeam workflow; running StarTeam on top of existing version control systems (VSS, PVCS); integrating StarTeam in development environments such as VS.NET, Delphi, C#Builder, and JBuilder; and, creating customized forms for StarTeam.
Prerequisites: Some StarTeam knowledge and Starflow experience.

All speakers, programs, and descriptions subject to change.