CONFERENCE SPEAKER: Ian Buchanan — Borland

In the role of senior solution architect, Ian Buchanan evangelizes Borland Together products and applies over a decade of experience in IT to helping Borland's largest customers adopt OOA/OOD, UML modeling, software quality assurance, and other best practices in software development. Ian has delivered consulting, mentoring, and training for teams using C++, Java/J2EE, and the Microsoft .NET Framework. Ian is an advocate of agile methodologies and generative software development approaches such as OMG's MDA.

2004  Core SDP Soup to Nuts

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial helps participants understand the composition and usage model for tools in Borland Core SDP Suites for analysts, architects, developers, and testers. Participants learn how the roles can be mapped to different software development methodologies and how the toolset can be customized to fit different software development methodologies. This tutorial is appropriate for people who are interested in or will start using the Core SDP products.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of Java application lifecycle.
2004 Sunday, November 6, 2005 — 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 3

2012  Use Case Modeling

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This tutorial starts with the basics of Use Case analysis and demonstrates text and visual techniques to help elicit rich and thorough requirements, as well as providing a starting point for application architecture. Through a series of exercises, the tutorial gives participants a chance to think through the techniques and understand how Borland tools can help. This tutorial is appropriate for anyone involved in requirements elicitation and the begining of application design.
Prerequisites: None.
2012 Monday, November 7, 2005 — 9:00am - 1:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 7

3188  Requirements Elicitation with Business Process Modeling Notation  

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) is a relatively new graphical notation for capturing business procedures and provides organizations the ability to communicate these procedures in a standard format. Such a standard encourages collaboration, and helps business analysts ask the right questions about internal and B2B business processes and can help insure that they get the right answers. In this session, learn effective, best practice techniques for conducting requirements elicitation with BPMN.
Prerequisites: Experience with requirements management and high-level understanding of business process modeling helpful. CaliberRM knowledge a plus.
3188 Wednesday, November 9, 2005 — 4:45pm - 6:00pm
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2