Webinars & Manager Overviews -- Praxis Learning Networks

Webinars & Manager Overviews

5-10:	Business Systems Analysis in the 21st Century	1 hr
	From the initiation of a project to the definition of the business requirements, the process that is often called analysis needs a new face. Analysis is, by definition, a process of examining the components of a whole to understand how it works, what's good and what's bad about it. In the business world, the real work just starts with that understanding. Since the true purpose of this process is to create a clearly defined set of business requirements that can serve as the blueprint for a future information technology solution, the process should be call business systems architecting.
5-20:	Requirements Gathering JAD Sessions in the 21st Century	1 hr
	This overview offers an informative and critical look at the JAD process as it applies to requirements gathering. The assessment of the risks and rewards of using JAD sessions is based on extensive experience with JAD's in a wide variety of organizations and projects. You will learn techniques to determine whether JAD's are right for your project and how to integrate JAD's into your organization.
5-30:	Testing Business Systems in the 21st Century	1 hr
	Testing is your primary weapon in the ware against errors. It does not require knowledge of the technology. You need to enter data and recognize the difference between a good response and a bad one. The testing phase has to start during the requirements gathering phase of the project. If you don't know how you will test a requirement when the system is delivered, you need to know more about the requirement.
5-40:	The Unified Modeling Language (UML) in the 21st Century	1 hr
	The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is currently viewed as the future method for developing and delivering information technology. This new language enables analysts, developers and end-users to work from a set of standard models that are created at the beginning of analysis and evolve to become the solution that is delivered. The challenge here is to understand the complex models and figure out how to implement them in your organization.
5-50:	System Development Life Cycles (SDLC) in the 21st Century	1 hr
	Since mankind invented systems, we have had system development life cycles, in short, a method to our madness. Without methods, every project is an experiment without a roadmap and with an indeterminate outcome. Methodologies give direction to our endeavors. Methodologies alone, however, do not make projects successful. People do. People apply a methodology to make their success repeatable, but the success depends ultimately much more on the poeple than one the process.
5-60:	Use Cases and Business Systems in the 21st Century	1 hr
	Use cases are vehicles for capturing how someone will use an evolving information technology solution once it is delivered. Much has been tried, written, and presented about this simple, straightforward tool in conjunction with the Unified Modeling Language. The UML comes to us from the universe of Object-Oriented development, a place only few have dared to go and return unharmed.

Workshops developed and delivered by Requirements Solutions Group