Conferences & Trade Shows

IBM Rational Software Conference

The premier software systems and services event. A smarter conference for a smarter planet. The place to expand and deepen skills you need to keep innovating . . .

• Software development, delivery, and management
• How to seize business opportunities . . . execute with reduced risk and cost . . . and achieve precision in desired business outcomes
• And better ways to collaborate, automate, and report.

June 08, 2010 - June 11, 2010
Orlando, FL
Website: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/innovate/

Webinars

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• Hardware From Estimate To Plan: Construct a Plan Using Microsoft Project & SEER-H
  September 14, 2010 at 8:30 am
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  (8:30am PDT, 11:30am EDT, 4:30pm London)
  
  Best practices suggest that estimates should become the basis of project plans. Yet building a plan from a hardware estimate manually can be a daunting task… Schedules, staffing, relationships: all of these are required for a viable plan. With SEER-H and its integration to Microsoft Projects, you can get all of this with a few clicks using your own processes and your own WBS.
  
  SEER Integration to MS Project automatically constructs a complete project plan from any SEER for Hardware project estimate. This integration may be used "out-of-the-box" and is even more powerful when your processes are included with customized activity plans and labor categories.
  
  This integration provides:
  
  • A powerful solution for planning hardware development projects by exporting SEER for Hardware effort and schedule estimates directly into MS Project.
  • The ability for users to construct a complete project plan, enabling them to anticipate almost every aspect of the lifecycle process with relatively limited input.
  • Plans can be laid out faster and more efficiently than with traditional methodologies.
  • Customized templates that can be defined that reflect an organization's specific manufacturing process.
  
  Join us to see how to put together a project plan for your project.
  
• Managing IT Budget Portfolios using SEER-IT
  October 12, 2010 at 8:30 am
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  (8:30am Pacific, 11:30am Eastern, 4:30pm London)
  
  SEER for IT (SEER-IT) successfully augments the SEER for Software (SEER-SEM) estimation model to include core IT system services. But SEER-IT can reach even further to capture an entire budget portfolio in order to effectively manage both parametric cost items as well as level of effort inputs in order to create a fully documented estimation repository providing an early and accurate assessment of costs, schedules, and risks for IT projects and their ongoing support.
  
  This webinar will describe how SEER-IT can be used to support IT project estimation and portfolio management as well as lessons learned from working with the model.
  
• SEER Advanced Topics Series: COSMIC Function Points An ISO Sizing Standard (Part 1)
  October 26, 2010 at 8:00 am
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  (4:00pm London, 8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern)
  
  Galorath is pleased to offer this two part webinar that introduces COSMIC functional sizing, contrasts COSMIC and IFPUG, and illustrates the use of COSMIC with SEER.
  
  Size is a main driver of the effort and cost of for software development projects either for SEER or other effort / productivity purposes. Function Point Analysis (defined by an ISO standard) was one of the first working approaches to determine a consistent and repeatable software size. This approach, is widely used and is supported by International Function Point User Group (IFPUG).
  
  COSMIC (Common Software Metrics International Consortium) is another ISO standard for functional software sizing. COSMIC was developed by a team of international software metrics specialists looking to develop a new functional sizing method that would offer an alternative to IFPUG FPA, sizing more easily and as accurately.
  
  COSMIC is being widely adopted in Europe and is applicable to project worldwide when an alternative to IFPUG function points is desired.
  
  This webinar is one of Galorath’s Advanced topics series and will be presented by Galorath’s Ton Dekkers who is an expert in both IFPUG and COSMIC sizing.
  
  Part 1 will address:
  • The general concepts of COSMIC
  • The conformity and differences between IFPUG Function Point Analysis and COSMIC
  • The application of the method in business environments
  
  Presenter: Ton Dekkers Director of Consulting, Galorath International Limited - Mr Dekkers is member of COSMIC’s International Advisory Committee and has been certified for COSMIC, IFPUG FPA and NESMA FPA. Currently he is President of NESMA and Past President of ISBSG. Ton is experienced in sizing, estimating, benchmarking, should cost analysis and much more and is based in the Netherlands.
  
• SEER Advanced Topics Series: COSMIC Function Points An ISO Sizing Standard (Part 2)
  October 28, 2010 at 8:00 am
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  (4:00pm London, 8:00am Pacific, 11:00 Eastern)
  
  Galorath is pleased to offer this two part webinar that introduces COSMIC functional sizing, contrasts COSMIC and IFPUG, and illustrates the use of COSMIC with SEER.
  
  Size is a main driver of the effort and cost of for software development projects either for SEER or other effort / productivity purposes. Function Point Analysis (defined by an ISO standard) was one of the first working approaches to determine a consistent and repeatable software size. This approach, is widely used and is supported by International Function Point User Group (IFPUG).
  
  COSMIC (Common Software Metrics International Consortium) is another ISO standard for functional software sizing. COSMIC was developed by a team of international software metrics specialists looking to develop a new functional sizing method that would offer an alternative to IFPUG FPA, sizing more easily and as accurately.
  
  COSMIC is being widely adopted in Europe and is applicable to project worldwide when an alternative to IFPUG function points is desired.
  
  This webinar is one of Galorath’s Advanced topics series and will be presented by Galorath’s Ton Dekkers who is an expert in both IFPUG and COSMIC sizing.
  
  Part 2 will address:
  • The application of the method in a real-time environment
  • Correlation between IFPUG Function Points and COSMIC Function Points
  • The way COSMIC can be used in SEER for Software
  
  Presenter: Ton Dekkers Director of Consulting, Galorath International Limited- Mr Dekkers is member of COSMIC’s International Advisory Committee and has been certified for COSMIC, IFPUG FPA and NESMA FPA. Currently he is President of NESMA and Past President of ISBSG. Ton is experienced in sizing, estimating, benchmarking, should cost analysis and much more and is based in the Netherlands.
  

   

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