Sessions tagged as Analysis

Agile Analysis for Developers

Presenter: Rod Claar
Time: 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM, Saturday, May 22, 2010
Location: Franz Hall, Room 222
Tags: Agile, Analysis

This session is a module in RippleRock’s Certified Scrum Developer course “Effective Scrum Developer”. This module is based on this user story: As a Developer, I want to quickly and accurately break down requirements, so that the work of delivering business value can be planned effectively. Rod Claar, Agile Practice Leader for RippleRock, will start with an interactive overview on identifying and creating User Stories. Then the discussion will turn to identifying the personas in your domain and how to unfold the stories to get to the size that an Agile Developer can build quickly and accurately. Rod will then discuss the sizing of stories in an agile environment and how a team can collaboratively estimate the work for predictable results and success! Rod will also demonstrate the creation of User Stories in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010.

Data Architecture – a "Corner Stone" of EA

Presenter: Atul Borkar
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM, Saturday, May 22, 2010
Location: Shiley Hall, Room 123

Data Architecture – a 'Corner Stone'of Enterprise Architecture -As the organizations across the globe, aggressively pursues their strategic objectives; a key strategy and method is required in this pursuit, and that is 'Data/Information Availability'. Accurate, reliable and available information enables the organization to make timely and better business decisions. We have seen many differing methodologies over the years with CRM, Portals, B2B efforts and score carding capabilities. The need for well structured and quality information is more important than ever. As a result, we are seeing a significant acceptance and synergy relative to the importance and value having a robust Data Architecture. Most organizations today have a co