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Master Class Events
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About Master Class Events |
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Master Classes are high-level seminars, at which we present our insight on topics pertinent to corporate IT and business management. These events attract up to 40 senior delegates, and are held throughout Europe and Australia . Business and IT Industry leaders gain a view of how their own businesses should be changing to embrace an economic environment that is becoming totally dominated by information and the technology that enables its exploitation.
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Agile Management Practices - An Enterprise IT Workshop
Making the IT department deliver what the business needs
Agile software development practices are now in the mainstream of application methodologies and processes. The Agile approach has brought fresh thinking to how we should manage development projects as well as examining the core construction practices. As a result, techniques such as daily stand-up meetings, test driven development, continuous testing, pair programming, Agile estimation and the 'planning game', requirements representation as stories, use of whiteboard with velocity and burn-down charts are becoming common. Agile breaks from the waterfall tradition in being an iterative process, and unlike other iterative techniques, it has multiple layers of iterations with an emphasis on the Sprint iteration as the shortest iteration to deliver working code to the client, in a matter of weeks.
Wednesday 10 November 2010, Edinburgh
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BPM in Practice - An Enterprise IT Workshop
Ensuring Successful Implementation
Most organisations now view BPM as an essential part of an overall strategy that touches both the IT function and the operational imperative. Many such organisations have implemented pilot projects or carried out proof-of concept schemes to see where BPM will fit into their operating environments. These organisations are now faced with the task of ensuring large-scale implementations are carried out successfully, and this Master Class focuses on the different elements of a total BPM solution:
Thursday 2 December 2010, London
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Cloud Computing
The Benefits and Challenges of Computing on the Cloud
Attributed to Thomas J. Watson Sr. (1874-1956) while he was president of International Business Machines, this apocryphal quote could turn out to be true in a manner of speaking if one were to rephrase the statement thus: 'I think there is a world market for maybe five computer clouds.’ But would five clouds be enough? And if so, what services would these clouds offer and how might an organisation benefit from using them rather than more traditional on-premises solutions?
Tuesday 28 September 2010, Central London
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Tuesday 9 November 2010, Edinburgh
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Thursday 11 November 2010, Copenhagen
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Enterprise Architecture - an Enterprise IT Workshop
Adopting a Practical Approach to Maximise Effectiveness
Enterprise architecture is an important strategic planning technique that can be used by organizations to communicate and interpret the objectives of the business. An architectural approach provides the essential blueprints for the communication, interpretation, and implementation of value drivers throughout the organization, and enables the evolution to a service-centric IT environment.
Thursday 16 September 2010, London
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IT Horizons
Business Technology Trends 2010 - 2015
Periodically IT has to abandon its traditional model of incremental improvement and instead accommodate a step change in the way it operates. This is because the expectations of the business world have diverged from the anticipated model to the extent that incremental change in IT will never succeed in bringing it back into alignment with business demands. This is happening right now as the recognition bites that the monolithic application packages that represent the mainstream approach to IT are really designed around a siloed business architecture, and that business architecture is rapidly being overtaken by collaborative networks.
Tuesday 19 October 2010, Central London
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