Meeting Notice
Tuesday January 13, 2004   5:30-8:00PM
(Doors open at 5:30 for registration, meeting starts at 6:00PM)
$5.00 Admission  Open to the Public
Free admission to employees of The Hartford and fulltime students with college ID
Hartford Insurance Company
 
"10 Great Things to Do with Analysis Models and Artifacts"
Susan Burk
 MassMutual

Analysis is the part of the software development process which everyone loves to shrink or skip. Typical reasons for minimizing or eliminating analysis activities are "Project deadlines are tight, we don't have time to use these techniques",  "People know what they want by seeing user prototypes rather than by examining models" "Most people can't read models",  "You can't build the analysis model"

While all of these concerns are valid, "just enough" analysis activities can have a very positive effect on software projects.

This presentation identifies 10 great (and relatively quick) things which can be done with analysis techniques which result in better project thinking.

This topic should be of interest to analysts, developers, and project managers who must translate business problems into automated solutions.  If you attended Susan's 2001 talk on "Mapping UML Models to Relational Persistence" or her 1998 talk on "Choosing UML Features When Tailoring a Methodology", then you'll know that you're hearing from an expert in this field.
A COOUG director since 1999, Susan has been a speaker at several COOUG meetings and SIGS. She heads the COOUG program committee and has been creative in establishing "topic themes".  Her industry reputation, including DAMA and the Rational Users Group, have brought in many well known speakers. At MassMutual Financial Group she is responsible for promoting analysis and design best practices. She has over twenty years industry experience, most of them working with application development teams and Information Resource Management (IRM) and Object Technology Center (OTC) infrastructure groups in the insurance, telecommunication, manufacturing, shipping, and finance industries. Previously, as a principal with American Management Systems, she provided mentoring, training, and facilitation support in Object-Oriented (OO) Analysis and Design, Information Engineering and Information Resource Management (IRM) at 21 major (Fortune 100 - Fortune 1000) institutions in the US and around the world.
$5.00 Admission       No Reservations Required       Complimentary Soda and cookies

We'll have at least six book door prizes courtesy Addison Wesley and Prentice-Hall/PTR.  "Death March", "Software by Numbers", "Software Development for Small Teams", "The Rational Unified Process", "Practical Software Engineering: Analysis and Design for the .NET Platform", and "Enterprise Patterns and MDA"
 
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