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Requirements Definition and Management
Building a Business Case for Requirements Speaker – David Quinn, Principal Consultant – Borland Software It is well documented that shortcomings in requirements definition and management lead to excessive rework on software projects - causing time delays and cost overruns. With limited IT budgets and priorities, you need a solid business case that definitively outlines the importance to your organization. In this webcast, David Quinn will provide the foundation for how to build a detailed business case for Borland's Requirements Definition and Management (RDM) solution. Topics include: Basics of RDM What decision-makers need to know about RDM The fundamentals of a business case Differentiating good and bad business cases Creating your business case for RDM Registration required
Cracking the Code on Requirements Definition Speakers: Jonathan "Kupe" Kupersmith, Director, Client Solutions, B2T Training David Walker, Product Owner and Requirements Definition & Management (RDM) Evangelist, Borland Software. Tired of seeing mind numbing statistics that continue to cite requirements as the root of all software project failure? Despite the proliferation of requirements management technologies, requirements problems persist. And, as application development processes increase in complexity, the requirements problem continues to grow – it costs software delivery organizations more than ever before in terms of budget, time-to-market, business value and customer goodwill. You may think you're managing your requirements, but the burning question is: What if you're managing the wrong requirements? Requirements definition goes to the very core of application development – it is the underlying key to project success or failure, yet it is the single most neglected discipline within software development. Join us as we explore and expose: The hidden costs associated with poor requirements – it's much worse than you think Why traditional approaches to defining applications fail and will always fail Modern advances in requirements definition – how simulation and prototyping are different from what you do now and why it's worth trying Defining software requirements is a source of pain for most organizations – but for smart teams, it can be the area of greatest opportunity. Join us to learn more, and start defining the real requirements, the first time. Registration required

Requirements Definition and Management

Building a Business Case for Requirements

Speaker – David Quinn, Principal Consultant – Borland Software

It is well documented that shortcomings in requirements definition and management lead to excessive rework on software projects - causing time delays and cost overruns. With limited IT budgets and priorities, you need a solid business case that definitively outlines the importance to your organization. In this webcast, David Quinn will provide the foundation for how to build a detailed business case for Borland's Requirements Definition and Management (RDM) solution.

Topics include:

Basics of RDM
What decision-makers need to know about RDM
The fundamentals of a business case
Differentiating good and bad business cases
Creating your business case for RDM

Registration required

Cracking the Code on Requirements Definition

Speakers:
Jonathan "Kupe" Kupersmith, Director, Client Solutions, B2T Training
David Walker, Product Owner and Requirements Definition & Management (RDM) Evangelist, Borland Software.

Tired of seeing mind numbing statistics that continue to cite requirements as the root of all software project failure? Despite the proliferation of requirements management technologies, requirements problems persist. And, as application development processes increase in complexity, the requirements problem continues to grow – it costs software delivery organizations more than ever before in terms of budget, time-to-market, business value and customer goodwill. You may think you're managing your requirements, but the burning question is:

What if you're managing the wrong requirements?

Requirements definition goes to the very core of application development – it is the underlying key to project success or failure, yet it is the single most neglected discipline within software development. Join us as we explore and expose:

The hidden costs associated with poor requirements – it's much worse than you think
Why traditional approaches to defining applications fail and will always fail
Modern advances in requirements definition – how simulation and prototyping are different from what you do now and why it's worth trying

Defining software requirements is a source of pain for most organizations – but for smart teams, it can be the area of greatest opportunity. Join us to learn more, and start defining the real requirements, the first time.

Registration required

Lifecycle Quality Management
Agile Stand up on Agile Testing View Borland's Bonus Session from STARWEST 2008. Agile Stand up on Agile Testing. An elite panel of experts answer core questions on Agile Testing.
Automated Agile Functional Testing; Practical Approaches to Quality that Get Results Many organizations are adopting Agile development practices. With the transformation to Agile comes organizational culture change - to some, culture shock. Specifically, how will you transform your traditional quality practices and empower testing teams to thrive in the high-velocity, collaborative, incremental development world of Agile? This webcast will cover what Agile testing is, what it’s not, and how some industry leaders are incorporating Agile testing practices into their IT organizations. Some of the topics will include: Unit testing – it's critical to a projects success, but is it enough? What's the right amount of automation for organizations of different sizes? How are organizations successfully adapting existing automation practices to better support their Agile approach? What management insights can be gained through different levels of automation? We'll also share the real world lessons and benefits that Borland has experienced during its Agile transformation. Registration required
Modern Performance Testing Methods – How Leading Development Teams are Addressing Key Challenges Today's development teams are required to test early and test often in order to meet the dynamic demands of the business. With Agile adoption on the rise, testing is naturally occurring earlier and more often, but it's not without its challenges. Many agile teams struggle with allocating enough time and resources for performance testing and are faced with issues such as: How to cope and ultimately excel in this environment? How to perform business critical functions such as performance testing? How to keep costs low in the current financial climate? Join us for a candid discussion to learn how leading organizations are doing just that. This webcast will cover: An overview of the three critical requirements necessary to ensure quality, cost, and rapid delivery of systems. Common performance testing challenges to be aware of in Agile environments and proven methods for overcoming these inhibiting factors, including challenges posed by distributed teams Proven best practices from your QA peers, including the Borland QA team, that recently underwent an Enterprise Agile Transformation Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can enhance your performance testing practices and improve your contribution to your team's success. Registration required
Pragmatic Agile Testing – The Issues, Evidence and a Workable Approach Featured Speakers: Lisa Crispin, Agile Testing Practitioner and Coach, ePlan Services, Inc. Stephen Walters, Product Marketing Manager, Borland With Agile adoption on the rise, understanding the needs of Quality Assurance (QA) in Agile software delivery projects is possibly the biggest challenge in the IT industry today in terms of reducing costs, while improving quality and time to market. In Agile or mixed methodology environments, the need for automated quality doesn’t change, it only intensifies. Automation is necessary, but how do software delivery teams make it work effectively in Agile environments? Can traditional tools live up to the Agile challenge? Does Open Source support or impair rapidly changing needs? A recent Borland Agile Testing survey reveals some interesting industry trends and statistics addressing these questions and more. Join us as we share some of these study results as well as explore: The most common Agile test automation challenges faced by QA professionals today The evolving role of QA in the Agile Shift – how the role will change and how to get ahead of the curve A practical approach to adopting and embracing test automation in Agile environments Agile test automation can be done successfully and have dramatic impact on product development and strategy. That was true with Borland, and it could be true for your organization. Join us to learn more. Registration required
Removing the Load from Your Performance Testing Speaker – Gregor Rechberger, Product Manager, Borland Software In this webcast, we will discuss the challenge of merging performance testing practices into an Agile and iterative development organization, based upon our own first-hand experience. Join us and: See how you can view the control of your iterative environment to enable early testing. View how load testing can be done in an Agile and Iterative way from the basis of user stories. Learn how to manage your performance testing in a new way to view your results now as preventative measures, rather than the cure. Borland has carefully analyzed these issues as part of its own Enterprise Agile Transformation, and as a result, we not only changed our approach to testing but also the testing tools we develop. Along the way, we successfully removed "the load" from our performance testing, and we are seeing big results. Join us to learn how you can too! Registration required
The New, Open Paradigm in Functional Automation In today's IT-reliant world, the application functionality you test can make or break your business. As new technologies and agile development methodologies emerge, fast but powerful functional test automation is vital to ensure systems deliver real value and reliable customer service. In this webcast, you'll learn how Borland® SilkTest® delivers functional testing support that is highly extensible, scalable and flexible. See how you can: Extend functional test automation to more users through Eclipse and Java language scripting Keep pace with new technologies with a new, open approach, while maintaining dependable business availability Test next-generation applications using Flash or AIR built with Adobe FLEX technology Make sure your organization can keep up with the latest IT developments and deliver applications that meet real-world business demands. Join the webcast to see how Borland SilkTest offers the comprehensive support your functional testing needs. Registration required
Webcast: Agile Testing Realities — Live Q&A on real-world Agile QA Produced by CM Crossroads / Agile Journal, Sponsored by Borland, The Open ALM Company "Agile Testing" is a term loaded with promise and freedom as well as fear and loathing – most of all, there is uncertainty simply because it's new territory. Is the traditional tester a dinosaur now or can evolution prevail? What is the role of Automation with Agile practices? What tool paradigms will rule in Agile — novice-level record/replay or IDE-integrated developer-level automated powerhouses? Join an experienced panel of experts in a live Q&A session to uncover how textbook Agile QA practices have been successfully applied, and modified, in large, distributed development teams. Industry Peers, Expert Practitioners, QA Managers, and Consultants will answer these and other pressing questions posed by the audience. Panelists: Lisa Crispin, Agile Testing Practitioner and Coach, ePlan Services, Inc Elisabeth Hendrickson, Founder, Quality Tree Software Tauseef Khan, Sr. Director Quality Assurance, Borland Tom Wissink, Lockheed Martin Fellow, Information Systems & Global Services Moderator: Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal Registration required

Lifecycle Quality Management

Agile Stand up on Agile Testing

View Borland's Bonus Session from STARWEST 2008. Agile Stand up on Agile Testing. An elite panel of experts answer core questions on Agile Testing.

Automated Agile Functional Testing; Practical Approaches to Quality that Get Results

Many organizations are adopting Agile development practices. With the transformation to Agile comes organizational culture change - to some, culture shock. Specifically, how will you transform your traditional quality practices and empower testing teams to thrive in the high-velocity, collaborative, incremental development world of Agile?

This webcast will cover what Agile testing is, what it’s not, and how some industry leaders are incorporating Agile testing practices into their IT organizations. Some of the topics will include:

Unit testing – it's critical to a projects success, but is it enough?
What's the right amount of automation for organizations of different sizes?
How are organizations successfully adapting existing automation practices to better support their Agile approach?
What management insights can be gained through different levels of automation?

We'll also share the real world lessons and benefits that Borland has experienced during its Agile transformation.

Registration required

Modern Performance Testing Methods – How Leading Development Teams are Addressing Key Challenges

Today's development teams are required to test early and test often in order to meet the dynamic demands of the business. With Agile adoption on the rise, testing is naturally occurring earlier and more often, but it's not without its challenges. Many agile teams struggle with allocating enough time and resources for performance testing and are faced with issues such as: How to cope and ultimately excel in this environment? How to perform business critical functions such as performance testing? How to keep costs low in the current financial climate?

Join us for a candid discussion to learn how leading organizations are doing just that.

This webcast will cover:

An overview of the three critical requirements necessary to ensure quality, cost, and rapid delivery of systems.
Common performance testing challenges to be aware of in Agile environments and proven methods for overcoming these inhibiting factors, including challenges posed by distributed teams
Proven best practices from your QA peers, including the Borland QA team, that recently underwent an Enterprise Agile Transformation

Don't miss this opportunity to learn how you can enhance your performance testing practices and improve your contribution to your team's success.

Registration required

Pragmatic Agile Testing – The Issues, Evidence and a Workable Approach

Featured Speakers:
Lisa Crispin, Agile Testing Practitioner and Coach, ePlan Services, Inc.
Stephen Walters, Product Marketing Manager, Borland

With Agile adoption on the rise, understanding the needs of Quality Assurance (QA) in Agile software delivery projects is possibly the biggest challenge in the IT industry today in terms of reducing costs, while improving quality and time to market. In Agile or mixed methodology environments, the need for automated quality doesn’t change, it only intensifies.

Automation is necessary, but how do software delivery teams make it work effectively in Agile environments? Can traditional tools live up to the Agile challenge? Does Open Source support or impair rapidly changing needs? A recent Borland Agile Testing survey reveals some interesting industry trends and statistics addressing these questions and more. Join us as we share some of these study results as well as explore:

The most common Agile test automation challenges faced by QA professionals today
The evolving role of QA in the Agile Shift – how the role will change and how to get ahead of the curve
A practical approach to adopting and embracing test automation in Agile environments

Agile test automation can be done successfully and have dramatic impact on product development and strategy. That was true with Borland, and it could be true for your organization. Join us to learn more.

Registration required

Removing the Load from Your Performance Testing

Speaker – Gregor Rechberger, Product Manager, Borland Software

In this webcast, we will discuss the challenge of merging performance testing practices into an Agile and iterative development organization, based upon our own first-hand experience. Join us and:

See how you can view the control of your iterative environment to enable early testing.
View how load testing can be done in an Agile and Iterative way from the basis of user stories.
Learn how to manage your performance testing in a new way to view your results now as preventative measures, rather than the cure.

Borland has carefully analyzed these issues as part of its own Enterprise Agile Transformation, and as a result, we not only changed our approach to testing but also the testing tools we develop. Along the way, we successfully removed "the load" from our performance testing, and we are seeing big results. Join us to learn how you can too!

Registration required

The New, Open Paradigm in Functional Automation

In today's IT-reliant world, the application functionality you test can make or break your business. As new technologies and agile development methodologies emerge, fast but powerful functional test automation is vital to ensure systems deliver real value and reliable customer service.

In this webcast, you'll learn how Borland® SilkTest® delivers functional testing support that is highly extensible, scalable and flexible. See how you can:

Extend functional test automation to more users through Eclipse and Java language scripting
Keep pace with new technologies with a new, open approach, while maintaining dependable business availability
Test next-generation applications using Flash or AIR built with Adobe FLEX technology

Make sure your organization can keep up with the latest IT developments and deliver applications that meet real-world business demands. Join the webcast to see how Borland SilkTest offers the comprehensive support your functional testing needs.

Registration required

Webcast: Agile Testing Realities — Live Q&A on real-world Agile QA
Produced by CM Crossroads / Agile Journal, Sponsored by Borland, The Open ALM Company

"Agile Testing" is a term loaded with promise and freedom as well as fear and loathing – most of all, there is uncertainty simply because it's new territory.

Is the traditional tester a dinosaur now or can evolution prevail? What is the role of Automation with Agile practices? What tool paradigms will rule in Agile — novice-level record/replay or IDE-integrated developer-level automated powerhouses?

Join an experienced panel of experts in a live Q&A session to uncover how textbook Agile QA practices have been successfully applied, and modified, in large, distributed development teams. Industry Peers, Expert Practitioners, QA Managers, and Consultants will answer these and other pressing questions posed by the audience.

Panelists:
Lisa Crispin, Agile Testing Practitioner and Coach, ePlan Services, Inc
Elisabeth Hendrickson, Founder, Quality Tree Software
Tauseef Khan, Sr. Director Quality Assurance, Borland
Tom Wissink, Lockheed Martin Fellow, Information Systems & Global Services

Moderator: Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

Registration required

Project and Portfolio Management
Borland Webcast on Project and Resource Management: Attaining Visibility and Control Achieving successful project and resource management ultimately is about gaining full visibility and control over how resources are being utilized. From skills-based capacity planning to discovering risks to reporting, organizations require unparalleled visibility and collaboration to be effective. Unfortunately, progress has been frustrated by high rates of change, increased complexity, distributed teams, and the rigidity of available tools. In this informative, one-hour web seminar, we will discuss common problems, proven solutions, and recommended considerations for implementing a project and resource management solution. This session will also include findings from a global IT Management and Governance survey, implementation examples, and a customer case study.
IT Management and Governance Best Practices - Transforming IT into a Strategic Business Hosted by InformationWeek & Optimize, join Gartner and Borland as they explore IT and business alignment; corporate governance plus regulatory requirements and compliance issues that are all prompting organizations to incorporate project portfolio management and process management as part of their overall IT investment.

Project and Portfolio Management

Borland Webcast on Project and Resource Management: Attaining Visibility and Control

Achieving successful project and resource management ultimately is about gaining full visibility and control over how resources are being utilized. From skills-based capacity planning to discovering risks to reporting, organizations require unparalleled visibility and collaboration to be effective. Unfortunately, progress has been frustrated by high rates of change, increased complexity, distributed teams, and the rigidity of available tools. In this informative, one-hour web seminar, we will discuss common problems, proven solutions, and recommended considerations for implementing a project and resource management solution. This session will also include findings from a global IT Management and Governance survey, implementation examples, and a customer case study.

IT Management and Governance Best Practices - Transforming IT into a Strategic Business

Hosted by InformationWeek & Optimize, join Gartner and Borland as they explore IT and business alignment; corporate governance plus regulatory requirements and compliance issues that are all prompting organizations to incorporate project portfolio management and process management as part of their overall IT investment.

Change Management
Activity & Asset Management — Moving SCCM from technical capability to enterprise process In this webcast, Ian Wesley from Ovum and Corné Human of Borland Software Corporation explain why a unified approach to activity and asset management has become a must have and can no longer be considered a nice to have, if you are creating software in today's ever changing world. View this webcast to learn how unified Activity & Asset Management: Gives you up to date visibility on the current status and history of all changes taking place in your project Gives you insight into the relationship between assets and thus the full impact of proposed changes on other assets Enables the efficient gathering of activity progress updates in relation to affected assets Makes it easier to find assets in context and thus promote asset re-use Registration required
Is Distributed Development empowering or undermining your business agility? Managing software development across distributed teams and multiple software projects is hard enough. But doing it in a way that actually delivers strategic value to the organization in the form of business agility? You need a way to improve collaboration, simplify team infrastructure and make sure everyone’s working from a centralized, single source of truth. As business projects scale, more focus and discipline needs to be applied to process and communication. Failure to do this simply undermines your success. In this webcast, you’ll hear from three different industry leaders – Forrester Research, BT and Borland Software - on how you can create business agility with even the most unwieldy distributed development projects. Registration required

Change Management

Activity & Asset Management — Moving SCCM from technical capability to enterprise process

In this webcast, Ian Wesley from Ovum and Corné Human of Borland Software Corporation explain why a unified approach to activity and asset management has become a must have and can no longer be considered a nice to have, if you are creating software in today's ever changing world.

View this webcast to learn how unified Activity & Asset Management:

Gives you up to date visibility on the current status and history of all changes taking place in your project
Gives you insight into the relationship between assets and thus the full impact of proposed changes on other assets
Enables the efficient gathering of activity progress updates in relation to affected assets
Makes it easier to find assets in context and thus promote asset re-use

Registration required

Is Distributed Development empowering or undermining your business agility?

Managing software development across distributed teams and multiple software projects is hard enough. But doing it in a way that actually delivers strategic value to the organization in the form of business agility? You need a way to improve collaboration, simplify team infrastructure and make sure everyone’s working from a centralized, single source of truth. As business projects scale, more focus and discipline needs to be applied to process and communication. Failure to do this simply undermines your success.

In this webcast, you’ll hear from three different industry leaders – Forrester Research, BT and Borland Software - on how you can create business agility with even the most unwieldy distributed development projects.

Registration required

Software Delivery Management
Leveraging a Downturn to Reshape the Demands on IT Presenters: Chuck Maples, Borland Software John Palumbo, Neochange Depending on your viewpoint, a recession is upon us, or at the very least, a cautious approach to IT spending. Forward-thinking CIOs and IT executives will use this time to reshape the demands on their organization to ready themselves for an improving economy. By changing the application management lifecycle to relieve the increasing demand faced by their organizations, IT executives can create the space for greater IT innovation. Hear how Borland and Neochange are working together to achieve this goal, and can help your organization tailor a path for sustainable ALM transformation. Registration required
Tales from the Trenches: Transforming Established Development Organizations to Agile A Panel Discussion Sponsored by Borland With Agile adoption steadily on the rise and organizations continuously seeking better ways to bring products to market, many software development organizations are taking a closer look at Agile and how to leverage it to their advantage. The transition to Agile is not easy for any organization, particularly large, distributed enterprises. Adopting a new methodology is one thing, but changing culture and mindset is even more involved and complex. This panel will provide various perspectives on how IT shops have incorporated Agile methods into existing environments. Panelists will share their insights into what factors motivated change, the challenges they faced during enterprise-level transformations, and the valuable lessons they learned along the way. View this session to get real-world advice from enterprises that have turned the corner on Agile and are realizing significant benefits. Registration required

Software Delivery Management

Leveraging a Downturn to Reshape the Demands on IT

Presenters: Chuck Maples, Borland Software
John Palumbo, Neochange

Depending on your viewpoint, a recession is upon us, or at the very least, a cautious approach to IT spending. Forward-thinking CIOs and IT executives will use this time to reshape the demands on their organization to ready themselves for an improving economy.

By changing the application management lifecycle to relieve the increasing demand faced by their organizations, IT executives can create the space for greater IT innovation.

Hear how Borland and Neochange are working together to achieve this goal, and can help your organization tailor a path for sustainable ALM transformation.

Registration required

Tales from the Trenches: Transforming Established Development Organizations to Agile
A Panel Discussion Sponsored by Borland

With Agile adoption steadily on the rise and organizations continuously seeking better ways to bring products to market, many software development organizations are taking a closer look at Agile and how to leverage it to their advantage. The transition to Agile is not easy for any organization, particularly large, distributed enterprises. Adopting a new methodology is one thing, but changing culture and mindset is even more involved and complex. This panel will provide various perspectives on how IT shops have incorporated Agile methods into existing environments. Panelists will share their insights into what factors motivated change, the challenges they faced during enterprise-level transformations, and the valuable lessons they learned along the way. View this session to get real-world advice from enterprises that have turned the corner on Agile and are realizing significant benefits.

Registration required