You are cordially invited to an IIBA NYC Chapter Event at Microsoft. Come for an interactive discussion and to network with New York City's practitioners...

AGENDA:

5:30 - 6:00     Networking and Refreshments

6:00 - 6:05     Announcements & Speaker Introductions

6:05 - 7:05     Presentation by iRise: Requirements Discovery & Innovation via Visual Application Definition

7:05 - 7:30     Q&A, Raffle and Closing

IIBA New York Chapter proudly presents: 

iRise: Sean Sargent & Terry Zapulla

 Sean Sargent is a Director for iRise and has spent the past 6 years helping clients of all sizes and across industries adopt iRise visualization.  He has been focused on helping clients recognize that the rapid and iterative collaboration technique called visualization can help transform collaboration between business and IT and is primarily a people and process issue that can be enabled with technology.  Prior to joining iRise Sean spent 7 years with IBM in a sales leadership role bringing solutions across the full IBM software portfolio to clients in the Financial Services sector with his final role being in a management position within the Rational brand.  Sean holds a BA in Economics from Villanova University.

Terry Zapulla is a senior technical advisor for iRise customers and prospects. Her role is both pre and post-sales performing technical qualification, proof strategies, product demonstrations, process discussions, implementation planning, managing product rollouts and speaking at public seminars to evangelize the benefits of visualization. Prior to joining iRise, Terry held technical sales and management roles at IBM Rational. Early in her career, Terry was a software developer and software development lifecycle methodologist at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Terry is a Certified Scrum Master, Certified IT Specialist and holds a B.S Degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University and an M.S. Degree in Computer Science from Northwestern University.

 Synopsis:  “Requirements Discovery & Innovation via Visual Application Definition”

 The fundamental flaw in all business requirements collaboration is that business users don’t know what they want or need until they can see, interact with and immerse themselves in an application, and everyone has different ideas on the solution to a problem, or what the problem is in the first place. 

iRise has spent 10 years evangelizing a new way or BA's to work with business users to elicit, define and validate requirements in a way that allows this immersive experience – requirements visualization.  Join us for an interactive session to discuss what requirements visualization is for projects with any user interface, including mobile, and why firms are starting to look at this as a critical skill for their BA teams.

Target Audience:  Project Business Analysts, Enterprise Business Analysts, Business and Solution Architects, Project, Program and Portfolio Managers, Product Managers, Customer Relationship Managers, BACOE and PMO Directors, IT Managers.

Level: All

REMINDER:

There will also be giveaways during the Q & A portion.

Venue: Microsoft, 1290 Ave of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010

Directions: Between 51st and 52nd street on 6th avenue.

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Many thanks to our 2011/2012 Chapter Sponsors:

Platinum Sponsor IBM helps organizations of all sizes work smarter with robust BPM solutions that increase agility. IBM provides market-leading capabilities for BPM including services, industry accelerators and best practices, enabling clients to rapidly meet market demands through advanced modeling, deployment, and monitoring of processes. For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com.  Gold Sponsor International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL) is a global leader in professional training and comprehensive consulting services in the areas of Project, Program, and Portfolio Management, PRINCE2™, Business Analysis, Microsoft® Office Project and Project Server, and Lean Six Sigma. In addition to its many course offerings, productivity tools, and professional certification pathways, IIL leads the way in customized course development. Its Many Methods of Learning™ enable IIL companies in more than 18 major countries around the world to deliver innovative, effective, and consistent training solutions via a variety of learning platforms (traditional classroom, virtual classroom and on-demand training). IIL is an IIBA™ endorsed education provider and a PMI® charter global registered education provider. For more information, visit http://www.iil.com/ or call 800-325-1533. For free webinars and resources, visit www.iil.com/freeresources.  Silver Sponsors Credit Suisse AG is one of the world's leading financial services providers and is part of the Credit Suisse group of companies (referred to here as 'Credit Suisse'). As an integrated bank, Credit Suisse offers clients its combined expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking and asset management. Credit Suisse provides advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally, as well as to retail clients in Switzerland. Credit Suisse is headquartered in Zurich and operates in over 50 countries worldwide. The group employs approximately 50,100 people. The registered shares (CSGN) of Credit Suisse's parent company, Credit Suisse Group AG, are listed in Switzerland and, in the form of American Depositary Shares (CS), in New York. Further information about Credit Suisse can be found at http://www.credit-suisse.com/. Microsoft Corporation, incorporated in 1981, develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software products for computing devices. The Company’s software products include operating systems for servers, PCs and intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing environments, information worker productivity applications, business solution applications, high-performance computing applications and software development tools. Microsoft understands the challenges faced by application development teams and continues to make investments to help organizations address these challenges. The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 suite of solutions can drive value with all the stakeholders on your team, including business analysts, architects, testers, and executive management, allowing these roles to collaborate more effectively to deliver quality software on-time, on-scope, and on-budget.   For more information, visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/. For free webinars and resources, check us http://www.almcatalyst.com/.  Bronze Sponsor Blueprint is a leading provider of requirements definition solutions designed to strengthen the foundation of the application lifecycle by eliminating requirement ambiguity and miscommunications which so often plague project outcomes. Designed for the challenges confronting modern requirement authors, Blueprint provides the industry's most full-featured requirements workbench with a cohesive set of functions to richly define, collaborate, visualize, and communicate requirements for projects ranging from multi-million dollar enterprise initiatives to smaller application enhancement.  Blueprint Software's Requirement Center™ reduces rework, ensures quality, and controls risk by allowing organizations to clearly express software requirements and validate them through live simulation. Please visit them at http://www.blueprintsys.com/ or call 516-992-8403.

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