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Education and Training

This section lists Education and Training programs that will be of interest to managers in the business process change community. All events are listed in chronological order. In addition, all events are cross indexed by Business Process Activity and Business Process Type in the Communities section of this site.

2010

September

Mastering the Requirements Process
09/13/2010 - 09/15/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
Requirements are the most misunderstood part of systems development, and yet the most crucial. Requirements must be correct if the rest of the development effort is to succeed. This workshop presents a complete process for eliciting the real requirements, testing them for correctness, and recording them clearly, comprehensibly and unambiguously.
Delegates will learn:
- Determine your client's needs—exactly
- Write requirements that are complete, traceable, and testable
- Precisely define the scope of the project
- Discover all the stakeholders—and keep them involved
- Use up-to-date techniques such as storyboarding and e-collaboration
- Get the requirements quickly, and incrementally
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/1.cfm

Data Modelling Fundamentals
09/20/2010 - 09/21/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This seminar and workshop contains a complete explanation of data modelling concepts and terminology, along with techniques for producing solid relational and dimensional data models. This course is designed to give you a practical understanding of data modelling that can be applied to your current projects. It is for anyone who needs formal data modelling training. This includes those new to data modelling or in need of a refresher who need to be able to understand, build, or implement data models as part of their job.
Delegates will learn:
- Data modelling concepts and terminology
- How to read a data model
- Steps to building a subject area model
- Logical data modelling techniques of normalization, abstraction, and dimensionality
- Physical data modelling techniques of denormalization, partitioning, views, and indexing
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/72.cfm

Business Rules and Decision Analysis: Hands-On Workshop
09/21/2010 - 09/22/2010
Ottawa, Ontario
Sponsored by: AttainingEdge
This 2-day seminar demystifies business rules and prepares you to capture them in a wide variety of circumstances. It reviews many dozens of real-world examples and templates, many of which you can adapt to your own work. You'll walk away from this rapid-paced, hands-on workshop ready to develop easy-to-understand business rules for your company in the form of decision tables, unambiguous sentences, or some combination of both, whatever is best-suited for the purpose. You will gain an immediate boost in productivity through sharper analysis and communication skills, both for the business side and the IT side. Here's how you can take business analysis to the next level of capability.
http://www.attainingedge.com/Business_Rules_and_Decision_Analysis.php

Data Modelling Masterclass
09/22/2010 - 09/23/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This interactive seminar and workshop is for anyone who already knows modelling fundamentals and is seeking more advanced techniques. In this Masterclass, delegates will first apply a best practices approach to building and validating data models through the Data Model Scorecard™, a tool for validating data model quality. Delegates will then focus on a collection of intermediate and advanced modelling techniques, including advanced normalization and enterprise data modelling. The final section contains guidelines used to gain consistency across data models in areas such as in abstraction and whether to star schema or snowflake.
Delegates will learn:
- How to apply the Data Model Scorecard™
- Advanced normalization rules and limitations of the logical data model
- A value-driven approach to building the enterprise data model
- Techniques for converting the logical into an physical design
- Factors to consider in deciding whether to Star Schema or Snowflake
- Three key questions to ask yourself before you abstract
- When to use a surrogate key
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/68.cfm

Business Analysis with Business Rules: Workshop on Business Requirements & Modeling
09/23/2010 - 09/24/2010
Ottawa, Ontario
Sponsored by: AttainingEdge
This 2-day seminar explains how IT requirements specification can be coordinated for maximum business advantage. It shows how to ensure effective communication between business people and IT professionals, resulting in system designs that truly reflect business thinking. Focused pattern questions are presented for each deliverable, along with numerous examples, to capture associated business rules thoroughly and accurately.
http://www.attainingedge.com/Business_Analysis_With_Business_Rules.php

October

Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 1: Framework Fundamentals
10/11/2010 - 10/13/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This two day seminar, presented by John Zachman himself, Father of Enterprise Architecture, is designed for enterprise professionals of every discipline including non-information disciplines as well as information disciplines. The seminar provides the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™. Seminar topics include Business Drivers for Enterprise Architecture; The Zachman Framework™; Architecture versus Implementation; Enterprise Architecture Implementation Practicalities; Four Frameworks for Knowledge Management; Simplifying the Enterprise; Reducing I/S ‘Time-to-Market’; Federated Architecture. Delegates will learn:
- A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture
- A comprehensive definition (description) of Enterprise Architecture
- A "language" (that is, a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues
- An understanding of basic Enterprise "physics" - laws of nature that govern Enterprise implementations
- Differentiation of Enterprise Architecture from Systems Implementation
- A strategy for reducing "time-to-market" for systems implementations to virtually zero
- Some pragmatic approaches for implementing Enterprise-wide strategies
- Strategy for integration beyond jurisdiction (Interoperability)
- Architectural Principles for meeting enterprise requirements
- A list of resources to facilitate architectural work
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/3.cfm

Zachman Enterprise Architecture MasterClass™ Part 2: Enterprise Implementation Strategy Examples
10/14/2010 - 10/15/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This seminar will show you how to strategically implement Enterprise Architecture in your organization. It will explain how the underlying constructs of the Zachman Framework™ support business agility and demonstrate this with real world examples of what to do and not to do when architecting an Enterprise. Delegates will learn:
- To enable the participant to use the framework as a tool for thinking about business and technology
- To consider framework implications for integration when making enterprise design decisions
- To understand the underlying framework constructs of fractals and other frameworks
- To be able to select appropriate implementation strategies for the delegate’s organisation and explain the rationale for them
- To understand how implementation composites can be assembled from primitive cell elements
- To review framework implementations in business, not for profit and government situations
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/43.cfm

Zachman Enterprise Modelling Workshop & Certification
10/18/2010 - 10/20/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This workshop is only applicable to delegates who have attended the Enterprise Architecture Masterclass Parts 1 and 2. It is the final required component for completion of the Zachman Certification. It is designed to bridge the gap between the conceptual and the practical. The concepts presented in the MasterClass provide the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™, however the catalyst for bringing these concepts together is application. The modelling workshop is designed for just that - applied knowledge.
Delegates will learn how to:
- Build primitive models for every Cell of The Framework.
- Build the Enterprise's Architecture piece by piece.
- Integrate the Enterprise implementation by (horizontal) associations.
- Ensure alignment and transformation Quality through the (vertical) associations.
- Define implementation phase boundaries (Enterprise Architecture planning).
- Use Enterprise Architecture in the day-to-day management and operation of the Enterprise.
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/88.cfm

November

The Corporate Strategy for IT
11/23/2010 - 11/24/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This seminar and workshop provides a framework for deeply integrating IT with corporate and business strategies, and explores its impact on the organisation’s people, investments, operating costs, Enterprise Architecture, and sourcing decisions. It harnesses the energy of business-led strategies for exploiting IT, to create maximum total value. It also makes transparent the linkages between business decisions and IT costs – often with some very surprising results. Delegates will learn:
- From the experiences of other companies
- Rapidly formulate the Corporate Strategy for IT in collaboration with business leaders
- Integrate IT with corporate and business strategies, and keep it that way
- Transform IT costs and budgets into a portfolio of investments in business change
- Maximise the contribution and influence of IT expertise at all stages of the investment process
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/41.cfm

December

Business Process Modelling, Analysis and Design
12/01/2010 - 12/03/2010
London, UK
Sponsored by: IRM UK
This workshop specifically addresses the tactical aspects of process improvement project work. It is unique in that it is built around a case study developed by the participants in team workshops. Consequently, participants leave with real world knowledge that can be used for accelerating their own projects.
Delegates will learn:
- The importance of properly managing the "people" aspect of process redesign
- Critical Success Factors for process improvement
- Practical process modeling and analysis and design techniques
- How to avoid creeping project scope and analysis paralysis
- The recommended tools currently available
- Tips and Techniques for avoiding common pitfalls in process improvement projects
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/5.cfm

2011

March

Business Rules and Decision Analysis: Hands-On Workshop
03/14/2011 - 03/15/2011
San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by: AttainingEdge
This 2-day seminar demystifies business rules and prepares you to capture them in a wide variety of circumstances. It reviews many dozens of real-world examples and templates, many of which you can adapt to your own work. You'll walk away from this rapid-paced, hands-on workshop ready to develop easy-to-understand business rules for your company in the form of decision tables, unambiguous sentences, or some combination of both, whatever is best-suited for the purpose. You will gain an immediate boost in productivity through sharper analysis and communication skills, both for the business side and the IT side. Here's how you can take business analysis to the next level of capability.
http://www.attainingedge.com/Business_Rules_and_Decision_Analysis.php

Business Analysis with Business Rules: Workshop on Business Requirements & Modeling
03/16/2011 - 03/17/2011
San Francisco, CA
Sponsored by: AttainingEdge
This 2-day seminar explains how IT requirements specification can be coordinated for maximum business advantage. It shows how to ensure effective communication between business people and IT professionals, resulting in system designs that truly reflect business thinking. Focused pattern questions are presented for each deliverable, along with numerous examples, to capture associated business rules thoroughly and accurately.
http://www.attainingedge.com/Business_Analysis_With_Business_Rules.php