This is an interesting move and indicates increasing maturity of the developer productivity tools marketplace. I am curious if Atlassian will make a testing tools aquisition as well. Additional info here.

When: 5 August 2010, 6PM

Venue: Bandwidth Barn

Cost: Free

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Topic: Requirements Management: Beyond tools, frameworks and methodologies.

The presentation will focus on basic fundamental skills that all individuals who manage requirements can easily implement and internalize in order to improve the delivery of the correct requirements, creating maximum business benefit.

About the Speaker

Mohamed is a versatile analyst who can span the analytical spectrum from Business to Systems and Test. Mohamed has been part of large-scale enterprise wide projects and has the ability to move through the project SDLC. He has a solid footing in systems analysis and has a good understanding of object orientated and UML software analysis and design.

Mohamed is an evangelist and co-ordinator for BB&D’s Business Technology Unit (BTU) which is responsible for researching and adopting best practices in Analysis (Business & Systems), Project Management, Consulting and other core non-technical areas of BB&D’s business offering. BTU provides a professional platform for analysts to come together and share knowledge in order to grow the analytical competencies within the organisation.

Mohamed plays an active role in the IT industry by being part of the International Institute of Business Analysis South African Chapter (IIBA-SA). The IIBA is the largest professional body for analysts world-wide. He is the current Chairman of the Western Cape region. His responsibility is to deliver knowledge sharing and networking events in order to promote and enhance the Business Analysis profession.

Slides are now available here

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