What a great opportunity to be heard in an open format! Share your "Good Design is Good Business" ideas about our design products by joining the VoiceJam, where you can ideate with us and help us shape the direction of the products to help our global clients (which includes YOU!).
Here are some design related topics that you can jam on:
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2013 marks another year with continued interest in Architecture and Design, after all, Good Design is Good Business!
I'm pleased to announce a webcast series that includes a number of useful topics and better yet, some wonderful speakers that include IBM Distinguished Engineers and topical thought leaders. Slide content for webcasts will be posted here on SlideShare.
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I was recently asked for recommendations on how user experience teams can design and understand the relationship between elements of the UI design (vs. the underlying software objects). Those (UX and UI) are two good topics unto themselves! I'm going to start with UI design first, only because, each of us have probably used, and have gotten frustrated by a really poor UI design at least once in our lifetime. Everyone has their own story here (comment about it if you'd like), but there's nothing more frustrating to me when designers make that simple "check box versus radio button" mistake. All of those guidelines for best choice for UI elements have been around since before Windows 3.0, roughly 1990, that's over 20 years ago! Of course, the choice of UI elements should be driven by the user experience (UX). Perhaps in the Agile world you'll know this as user stories, or storyboards, which are arguably subsets of the modern day use case (thank you Ivar Jacobson!) and the person who asked this original question also referenced a few other topics that IBMers had worked on in the past:
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Essentials of Design Management with RSA is a free, self paced training to support and facilitate DM adoption. It includes:
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I recall plenty of laughs around the office for these words, "Who's the best modeler (of all of our architects and developers)?" And while some were dressed better than others, we, of course, were referring to who had the best design or UML experiences to share with customers! Most people like to hear about others experiences, to "learn from the best" or "find emerging trends" or "accelerate their knowledge" and this series of three sessions will be exactly that: one client's approach and experience in using more advanced design techniques to power their business' software strategy, development and deployment. Join
this
Good Design is Good Business webcast to learn more about how BlueCross BlueShield powers their business with good design. Our guest speaker is Arman Atashi, a Senior Application Architect at BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina. Arman is an experienced presenter at IBM Rational Innovate Conferences and leads the M3 Modeling Methodology efforts for BlueCross BlueShield. Our three sessions for software developers, engineers, architects, programmers, or anyone interested in design will cover: - Overview of the M3 Modeling Methodology (14 September 2012) **DOWNLOAD SLIDES** **WATCH REPLAY**
- Constructing an application using M3 and Rational Software Architect
(5 October 2012) *DATE CHANGE: 9 November 2012* **DOWNLOAD SLIDES**
- Seeting how the app fits into the Big Picture with TOGAF
(26 October 2012) *DATE CHANGE: 25 January 2013* *DOWNLOAD SLIDES*
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
Times: 11:30AM-12:30PM Eastern US Time (dates specified above)
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Hey software developers, engineers, architects, or programmers, we all do design. But how can you improve upon your designs? You probably do it now through "peer reviews" or "architectural reviews", which can often take a lot of time to: - prepare (reports, presentations),
- coordinate a meeting (with one or more busy peers),
- capture feedback (writing up suggestions), and
- following up.
Bottom line: your team's time is valuable, and improving designs is a team collaboration effort that we recognize needs to be more productive for the entire team to deliver software that powers our business. Join this
Good Design is Good Business webcast to learn more about Effective Collaboration for Better Design with Rational Software Architect (RSA) 8.5 and Design Manager Our speakers include two developerWorks authors: Jean-Louis Marechaux Software Engineer from the Rational Labs and Rational Services Solution Architect Todd Dunnavant.
** Slides and a brief survey are now posted. Recordings are now posted. **
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
Date: August 2, 2012, 12:00pm (noon) Eastern US Time.
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As an architect\designer, we should have a significant role to play in the identification of risks - and - in mitigating those risks. I see modeling (and the use of tools such as the SOAD Model Accelerator) as playing a key role in helping with these efforts. Simply drawing some squiggly lines or performing a bit of handwaving has never done much. What skills, tools or techniques do you depend on? Lee.
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To celebrate summer and our latest version of the SOAD Model Accelerator, we're having a contest. We're having a draw to give away printed copies of our book Designing Solutions using the SOAD Model Accelerator. To enter the draw, send an email to bookpromo@emphasysgrp.com before midnight (ET) on July 31st. Aug 15th. Note: We had a snafu with our email server and some people had issues entering the contest. To make sure that everyone has a chance to enter, we've extended the contest.
In total, we'll be giving away ten (10) copies of the book. As always, we continue to provide free access (registration required) to the ebook. Thanks! Lee. Lee Ackerman
VP Products & CTO
The Emphasys Group
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What's new in RAD and RSA 8.5? Attend this session and learn about the top new features of RSA (Rational Software Architect) and RAD (Rational Application Developer) that can save you time and money. In RSA we will be discussing how to improve collaboration and reuse with design manager, as well as how to accelerate spring and hibernate development. In RAD we will be looking at the development support for the new Liberty profile, and how that will dramatically reduce development times for Websphere Application Server development, as well as the new Rich Page Editor for simplifying and accelerating the development of Web2.0 applications. The
Good Design is Good Business community is excited to host Steve Arnold, Rational Client Technical Specialist. Steve is the Architecture, Design, Construction (ADC) Leader in the UK, with an established presence on developerWorks.
** Slides, recordings and a brief survey are now posted. **
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
Date: July 19, 2012, 10:00 Eastern US Time.
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So what do you get when you cross SOA with Telecommunications? No joke: you get a new standard called TelcoML! As with most designs, it is standardization that propels the segment into the mainstream popularity - this is true in both the physical world (train track dimensions, electric voltage standards) as well as the software realm (digital video, http/html, and UML itself).
Join this webcast to learn more about TelcoML, a customization of the SOA Modeling Language (SoaML), for the telecom domain. As you may know, SoaML is Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) modeled in UML. The goal of TelcoML is to provide a blueprint for interfacing and defining services for the telecom industry. This includes services for telecom devices such as wireless and land line terminals, as well as services within the IT systems and Network side of the Communications Service Providers (CSPs). A specialization of SOA for domain specific application, TelcoML components are either defined or required for definition by the user. Service interfaces include, security, transactions related to security, system integrity such as recovery from errors, and interfaces needed to be defined by the user. As such, TelcoML is a SOA based superset of the OneAPI commonly used in the wireless industry and has been standardized by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2011. The
Good Design is Good Business community is excited to host Irv Badr, Worldwide Go-to-Market Manager: Energy, Utilities and Communications Industries at IBM Rational. Irv is co-chair of MARTE, TelcoML and Object Management Group’s Smart Energy standards. Irv has written over fifty papers on real-time and embedded systems and model-driven development in his nearly twenty years’ experience in developing software architecture and marketing complex systems.
** Slides and recording are now posted and a brief survey is also available. **
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
Date: July 13, 2012, 9:00 Eastern US Time.
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Interested in becoming a successful Software Architect or strengthening your skills in this area? Experienced author and IBM Executive IT Architect, Peter Eeles shares his "10 Keys for Successful Architects" based on his book "The Process of Software Architecting". The Good Design is Good Business community is excited to host Peter Eeles and welcomes the general public, including IBMers, software architects and other roles with interest in this topic, to this wonderful opportunity to learn some best practices with a brief time for Questions and Answers following the discussion. ** Slides and recording posted. ** After attending, please take our short survey. **Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
Date: June 28, 2012, 9AM Eastern US Time.
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Good Design is Good Business would like to announce the upcoming session, "Model Behavior", a preview of an actual session to be delivered at the Innovate 2012 Conference! While "Model Behavior" can be interpreted as "ideal behavior", modeling itself is a good proactive approach to lowering costs in your organization by improving productivity with visual communication. It is often said, "a picture is worth a thousand words", and applying this tenet to modeling, results in more optimized communication and time savings for organizations that do not communicate or only communicate via text or email.
Please join us for this preview, Thursday, May 3, 2012, 12pm ET (noon ET), 9AM PT to see how one client achieves real results through their modeling efforts using Rational Software Architect's "sketching" capability (new in the version 8 releases).
Speaker: Aaron "Rusty" Lloyd, Solutions Engineer Executive Advisor, Office of the CTO, Wellpoint Inc.
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
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Good Design is Good Business would like to announce the upcoming series: Java Refactoring and Designing for Testability. This three-part series is designed for you to connect with other users and IBMers in a one-hour a week format to advance your skills, much like our Innovate Conferences, but in a free and virtual format. This session's agenda:
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Principles of Unit Testing (and some tools: JUnit with RAD) 13 April 2012, 9AM ET
- Refactoring for Testability 20 April 2012, 9AM ET
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End-to-End Testing of Applications 27 April 2012, 9AM ET
** Part 1 slides are here, part 2 here, part 3 here. Recording for Part 1 is here. Recording of Part 2 here. Recording of Part 3 here. **
Speaker: Ken Brittain, Programmer Analyst III, Systems Development, CSC
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
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Rational Software Architect (RSA) is one of the most popular design and
development platforms on the market today. If you are designing and
developing SOA solutions, the "Ready for Rational" SOAD Model Accelerator builds upon RSA's value with even more productivity.
The SOAD Model Accelerator guides the practitioner to create
best-practice based (Rational SOMA and SoaML) SOA Solutions, reduce
mechanical steps, enhance solution focus and magnify creativity and
problem solving skills. The components of the SOAD Model Accelerators
are focused in 4 areas:
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Business Modeling
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Service Identification
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Service Specification
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SOA Governance
** Slides are available in two parts in the Files Section of this group here and here. Recordings are now available here. ** Speaker: Lee Ackerman, VP/CTO, the Emphasys group
Host: Roger Snook, IBM Rational
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