Archive for December, 2007

Evolution of Tagging - How are You or Your Communities Adapting to Tools and Needs?

Published by lynda on December 27, 2007 in Friday Breakfast Meetings. 1 Comment

Friday, January 4, 2008 at 7:30 - 9:30 a.m. Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Trapelo Road, Waltham.

In our discussion on December 7th each in a group of about 20 gave a synopsis of what their typical search activity looks like in a given day from the desktop to the enterprise and Web. Many inserted their ideas about how navigation taxonomies, personal tagging and categorizing, and social tagging informed their approaches to searching. There were also a number of comments about how tagging may have helped them organize or discover good “stuff” in the past but an undercurrent was present about diminishing returns. At this upcoming meeting we will focus on two troublesome aspects of tagging:

  • What happens when the target audience does not find the tagging terms meaningful?
  • Is tagging evolving in new ways to become more useful or is it not scaling in helpful ways?

Bring us your examples of solutions, aggravations, and adaptations to your own tagging or that of others whose content you would like to explore.

Registration

How to Capture Software Requirements: An Introduction to Use Case Modeling

Published by lynda on December 11, 2007 in Other Organizations Meetings. 0 Comments

Speaker: Norman Daoust
Thursday, December 13, 2007, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. (refreshments at 5:30 p.m.)
Microsoft Corporation, 201 Jones Road, 6th Floor, Waltham, MA 02451
Sponsor: International Institute for Business Analysis (IIBA) - Greater Boston Chapter

Admission: no charge, but preregistration is required by sending an email message with your full name, company name, job title, phone, and email address to events@boston.theiiba.org.

Additional information including a Google map of the location is available at:
www.DaoustAssociates.com/news.htm#20071213

Information from the IIBA site is available at:
boston.theiiba.org/default.asp?contentID=590

Description:
An overview of the use case analysis methodology for capturing system functional requirements for software systems. Attendees will learn a valuable set of guidelines for people writing use cases as well as the top five causes of use case failure!

Audience: business analysts, project managers, designers, end users, quality assurance and testing personnel
After the session, you should be able to:

- read a use case diagram,
- understand the uses of the various items in the use case text template,
- understand which types of requirements are appropriately modeled as use cases and which types are not.

Audience: Product managers, project managers, end users, analysts, designers, quality assurance and testing personnel