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Software Education offer over 50 different courses in software development training.
Free Webinar:
The Emerging Role of the Enterprise Analyst is our next webinar which will be presented by Shane Hastie this Friday at 12pm (Sydney/Melbourne time). This is an additional session after our 10am slot reached capacity.
Register here.
STANZ and SDC
Have you joined the conversation about SDC and STANZ in Australia for 2012? See the announcement on our blog and stay tuned for more information…
Passionate Product Ownership:
There is a brand new Jeff Patton Agile MasterClass scheduled for 2012. Passionate Product Ownership will introduce you to new ways of working and thinking, covering concepts and practices you won't find in other courses.
Mastering the Requirements Process:
James and Suzanne Robertson are coming to Australia to teach their MasterClass, and follow-up course, Mastering the Requirements Process, Part 2. To hear more from James and Suzanne check out their Volere Requirements Group on Linked In
Business Systems Analysis:
SoftEd's most popular course, Business Systems Analysis, teaches participants to use a structured, disciplined approach to understanding business systems, eliciting, analysing, documenting and validating business system requirements.
Sign up to this course which is running in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney before the end of the year.
Upcoming MasterClass:
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10 Tips To Be a Better I.T. Manager
We've all had jobs we've enjoyed and those we've... well, not had quite as much fun doing. So much of the success of a company comes down to working in great teams. Much of the success of teams comes from great leadership by managers.
This article offers ten tips to help you effectively manage your team. The first one certainly rings a bell with us here at SoftEd - spend time and money developing your people - but there are plenty more which are relevant whether you're new to a management role or a seasoned pro.
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Improve Communication Between QA and Development
How do your QA and development teams communicate? In person, face-to-face, or by logging problems in a bug tracking system? It's probably been your experience that the most useful and successful products have been built by teams where testers and devs work together.
This article discusses the importance of working together, understanding and appreciating the different roles people play in a team, and how to use feedback. Most importantly remember, we're all on the same side.
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Edit Those Epics
Johanna Rothman, internationally recognised expert in managing IT products and software development, as well as a friend of SoftEd, has written an article useful for anyone interested in transitioning to Agile.
It can be hard to change the way you've always worked, with big user stories or 'epics' that can last a whole project, to short stories that only last one iteration, but you need to do it in order to be Agile, otherwise you don't leave yourself space to change. Johanna offers some guidelines to help smooth out that transition.
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Why Multitasking Gets You There Later
If you work on more than one project then every time you switch from one to another there is a cost. The majority of the cost is the time it takes for you to change context. The more projects, the higher the cost. Simple, right?
We multitask every day, right now for instance I am typing, reading and breathing all at the same time, but because breathing is purely a mechanical task and I have learned to type without looking at my keyboard I'm only really concentrating on one thing. Neuroscientific experiements shows that if we multitask on things that all use our short term memory we can degrade it over time and we're more prone to errors. Read this article to understand the science of multitasking, and to see how running Agile projects one at a time can help the overall productivity of your organisation.
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PROFILE: Suzanne and James Robertson |
Suzanne and James Robertson have been teaching Software Education MasterClasses for four years. Twice a year they make the trip down under to deliver Mastering the Requirements Process. This course has been delivered all over the world and has helped hundreds of organisations to clearly define project requirements using the Volere method.
Software Education also runs Mastering the Requirements - Part 2 for people who want to take their Volere requirements process to the next level.
Suzanne and James Robertson are founding partners of the Atlantic Systems Guild - a New York and London based think-tank producing some of the most innovative ideas for today’s systems.
Suzanne and James are co-authors of Mastering the Requirements Process – Second Edition (Addison Wesley, 2006). Their broad experience with a diverse worldwide client base has resulted in the development of the Volere requirements process and tools for effective gathering, presenting and managing requirements.
For more information about their upcoming tour of Australia click here.
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New office in Brisbane
We have moved! Our Brisbane office has been packed up, transported and unleashed into a shiny new building in the centre of town.
You can now find SoftEd Australia at Level 5, 379 Queen Street, Brisbane 4000, if you are close by and don’t mind a few boxes while we get setup – come and say g’day. Our postal address is now GPO Box 1059, Brisbane 4001 and you can still contact us by phone or email in the usual way.
Software Education is the major sponsor for World Vision
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