Process MeNtOR Community

Over the last few weeks I have been working in a project that has invested heavily in automated regression testing. To that extent the project even developed a dedicated interface to allow accessing and controlling the user interface from testing programs....

  It has been 6 months in the making, but Release 6.0 of Process MeNtOR and Version 2.0 of TeamGuide have been released. We are now in the process of rolling it out to our existing customers and the feedback is very exciting. Some of the key features...

I cannot believe that another year has come and gone so fast!! The Australian Architecture Forum is now only a couple of weeks away. This is a unique event, with a mixture of breakout sessions (regular conference sessions) and roundtables. The round...

Carl, Karen and myself attended a presentation yesterday by John Thorp on the Challenges of Benefit Realisation. It was sponsored by Telelogic. We all found it very informative and have put together a set of notes from the session....

Lately, everywhere I've read or seen, there are workshops being held. It made me wonder if the term is a candidate for over abuse syndrome? There are other types of people gatherings that might be more applicable depending on what you're hoping to achieve:...

Yesterday we kicked off our launch of Release 2 of Process MeNTOR TeamGuide at Microsoft’s Heroes Happen {2008} road show in Sydney.  At the event I was lucky enough to help Anthony Borton present a session on Visual Studio 2008 and Application...

During our recent visit to TechEd EMEA Developers 2007, we again took the opportunity to conduct a 'process survey' at our booth – with the lure of winning an Xbox 360 (which was won by Christian Rysgaard from Simcorp in Denmark). Our goal with the survey...

It is generally accepted that use cases are an essential part of defining the requirements for modern software systems. However, use cases can live at different levels, have different purposes, and can be at different stages in their evolution. Process...

"How much is enough?" is a common question heard by analysts, designers and testers. How much detail of requirements do you need, how much detail of design do you need, how much testing do you need? Let me give one answer for the requirements space. ...

Welcome to a communal blog where all of the Business Analysts and Business Architects within Object Consulting are free to post their musings and share their insights. Cheers, Carl...

Congratulations to Christian Rysgaard from Simcorp in Denmark – Christian is the proud (and very surprised!) owner of a brand new Xbox 360 – courtesy of our process survey & competition giveaway.  We hope you enjoy many hours of gaming...

During the week of 5-11 November, the Process MeNtOR product team travelled to Barcelona to exhibit at Microsoft TechED EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa). The team of Rob Biernat, Stephan Meyn and myself unleashed the RAPTOR on an unsuspecting European...

We were recently working with a client around improving the capability of Designers within his organisation.  In the course of the engagement, the client posed the following questions: Q1. What questions should the Designer ask at the early phases...

Use Cases are a great tool. But all too often they are mis-used. Understanding what they can do and of the appropriate care and feeding will help make Use Cases a powerful component of defining requirements....

During the recent TechED Australia event on the Gold Coast, we ran a 'process survey' at our booth – with the lure of an Xbox 360 as a giveaway.  Our goal with the survey was to try and understand more about ‘process’ within the Australian software...

Thank you to all of the folks that came and visited our booth at TechED Australia on the Gold Coast.  We received a lot of positive feedback on Process MeNtOR TeamGuide – and a lot of good suggestions for our future releases.   Congratulations...

A client asked us to look at the complexity of their Enterprise Architecture and to come up with a way to measure it, or at least to measure the way it changes over time. Now there is no simple way of calculating a complexity number for an enterprise...

About a year ago I needed to write up a specification for a mobile application. In the past I would have thrown some dot points on to a page, maybe added a screenshot mockup or two and a heading or two with some text for good measure. Two pages....

Over the last week or so, there have been some significant announcements on Brian Harry’s blog regarding functionality in Orcas and Rosario. Brian has provided a summary of the Final TFS 2008 Feature List and Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the...

What have Agile, XP and Process MeNtOR in common? The idea that information gets created and decisions get made when the time is right, not earlier...

  It does not seem that long since we were in Orlando for TechEd US, although a lot has happened in that time.  We've run the Australian Architecture Forum in Sydney and Melbourne. I even managed to get in a couple of weeks leave :-)  ...

Wow, how cool is this robot. Thanks Cognitive Daily for that great link on this post....

A hectic schedule, a lot of miles, too much time spent in airports and not enough sleep.  But as a friend of mine commented – ‘you learn a lot when you travel – particularly for business’.   The journey started with the successful launch of...

You might have seen a couple of links pop up at the side of my blog, pointing to microformats.org and  RDFa.info. I have been investigating and experimenting with the Semantic web recently. This was motivated by finding new ways of making Process...

You are the designer and just got requirements handed for your next project. Is it your dreams come true or the beginning of sleepless nights...