SoftEd Update - New Zealand
October 2007 |
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UPCOMING TRAINING COURSES... |
IIBA - Software Education Courses are Endorsed by IIBA
MASTERCLASS - Mastering Requirements with Suzanne and James Robertson
MASTERCLASS - Just in Time Testing with Robert Sabourin
ISTQB ADVANCED - Announcing new advanced course with Rex Black
STANZ UPDATE - What happened at STANZ 2007 / Preview 2008
RECOMMENDED READING - Great book - on Software Requirements Patterns
USEFUL ARTICLES - Why Projects Fail - from CIO magazine
TIPS AND TRICKS - Test Team Management and Motivation
HANDY TOOL - For cost benefit analysis to calculate NPV, ROI, IRR
iPOD DRAW - How to win an iPod  -
Software Education Courses are Endorsed by IIBA
The International Institute of
Business Analysis (IIBA) has endorsed six of our courses: Business
Systems Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Effective Business
Requirements, Use Cases for Requirements Gathering, User Acceptance
Testing plus Advanced Business Analysis. Check out these courses here
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BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
29 October - 02 November,
Wellington
19 - 23 November, Auckland
03 - 07 December, Christchurch
BUSINESS
PROCESS MODELING
24 - 26
October, Auckland
29 - 31 October,
Wellington
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MASTERCLASS - Suzanne &
James Robertson will soon be here to deliver "Mastering the Requirements Process"(Parts 1 & 2)
In November we welcome back Suzanne and
James Robertson (Atlantic Systems Guild) from the UK to deliver
their "Mastering the Requirements Process" course. Both Auckland and
Wellington events were sold out last time they were here. There are
only limited places remaining - call your Account Manager now if you
would like us to hold you a place or click on the course you want to
book now! |
Suzanne
Robertson
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MASTERING THE REQUIREMENTS PROCESS
12 - 14 November, Wellington
19 - 21 November, Auckland
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"Mastering the Requirements
Process - Part 2" is scheduled to take place in Wellington on
the 15 and 16 December 2007. This two day course is based on the
Robertsons' book "Requirements-led Project Management" (Addison
Wesley, 2005), a copy of which is included in the course. It's time
to take your requirements to the next level! |
James Robertson
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MASTERING THE REQUIREMENTS
PROCESS - PART 2
15 - 16 November, Wellington
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MASTERCLASS - Robert Sabourin is also coming to New Zealand to deliver "Just in Time (JIT) Testing" be in quick to see him!
Robert Sabourin was a highly rated speaker at STANZ 2006
and STANZ 2007. He'll be providing his two day Just in Time
testing Course in Wellington and Auckland in November.
JUST IN TIME (JIT) TESTING
19 - 20 November, Wellington
22 - 23 November, Auckland
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Robert Sabourin
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ISTQB ADVANCED - Announcing new advanced course with Rex Black
The President of the International Software Testing
Qualifications Board (ISTQB), Rex Black, will personally deliver our
new, 5-day, Advanced Test Analyst course in early March 2008.
The ISTQB is aiming to release
their new Advanced Syllabus in October 2007. This covers three
separate areas of knowledge ? Test Analyst, Technical Test Analyst
and Test Management. To become an ISTQB Certified Advanced Tester
you will need to pass an exam that covers just one of the three
areas. We will offer 3 separate 5-day courses based on the new
Syllabus, beginning in March 2008. The beta version of the Syllabus
is available here
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STANZ UPDATE - STANZ 2007 & preview STANZ 2008
235 participants attended the annual conference on software
testing - Software Testing Australia/New Zealand (STANZ) in
Wellington and Sydney, 06 - 10 August. Over two days of
sessions and a full day workshop STANZ provided
practical techniques, methods and tips from international and local
software testing experts. Feedback has been very positive, with one senior test analyst commenting "An excellent mix of topics
and speakers, whether you're starting out in the testing world or an
experienced tester looking for those extra "nuggets" of wisdom to
further your skills". To get a preview of 2008 click
here
Congratulations to those who won prizes at STANZ. Doug Morrel,
Menik Delpachitra and Yucong Phease each won an iPod Nano, and
Trevor Govender and Sally Lawson received a Phillips Micro-System
each.
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Rex
Black, President ISTQB with
Sally
Lawson, Canterbury University
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RECOMMENDED READING - A great book by Stephen Withall - on Software Requirement Patterns
Aimed at the experienced analyst
who understands the basics of requirements gathering, this book
presents the concept of "Requirements Patterns" - taking the idea of
reusability above the level of software components into the realm of
requirements identification and specification. Withall
presents a number of common patterns in areas such as Information
Requirements, Data Functions, User Functions, Performance and Access
Control of Systems. He provides clear guidelines for utilising
the patterns and details on producing your own patterns for specific
business domains. As Karl Wiegers says in his foreward to the
book "Stephen Withall's Software Requirements Patterns can help the
analyst write better requirements."
The book is available from
Amazon. Click here
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USEFUL ARTICLES- Why Projects Fail - from CIO magazine
CIO Magazine has run a series of thirteen articles discussing the
dynamics of projects and identifying twelve aspects which can cause
project failure, ranging from poor scope management to
misunderstanding business requirements to poor governance.
They provide a refreshing look at the topic. Each article
contains a link to the next one in the series. The first
article in the series can be found here
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TIPS
AND TRICKS - Test Team Management and Motivation
Prepared by Sarah Rees, this paper provides practical
advice for both new and experienced test team managers. Check out
all 17 tips here
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HANDY TOOL FOR COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
Business Analysts and Managers
are often asked to prepare Business Cases and include financial
metrics such as Net Present Value (NPV), Return on Investment (ROI)
or Internal Rate of Return (IRR). We are aware some people find a
free tool from Solution Matrix Limited quite useful for these
calculations. The free Financial Metrics Lite tool is
available here
Disclaimer: Software Education
provides this link for reference purposes only and does not endorse
the tool or provide any warranty regarding suitability.
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iPOD DRAW - Each quarter someone will win an iPod!
Every person who attends a
Software Education course during each three month period will go
into a draw to win an iPod. Use promotion code NLV107
when you register to enter the draw. Winners will be notified by
email and announced in the newsletter following each draw.
Congratulations to our first
iPod winner - Nalini Ramadani
(System Test Analyst at Ministry of Health,Wellington)
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