Hello DAMA New York Members and Happy New Year. Well its hard to believe that 2012 is finally here and we are starting a brand new year which we hope will prove to be exciting. We have a new program for this year which we will be including for your review. Our first two meetings will be:

Jan 19   Robert Abate, EMC Consulting and his topic is Big Data and the Cloud

Mar  15   David Hay, UML and Data Modeling

                                                    DAMA Day 2012 11/11/12

We have confirmed our DAMA Day Theme and program. The venue will be at IBM, 590 Madison avenue on October 11th. The Theme will be Information Governance and the following Speakers are confirmed:

Steven Adler, IBM Data Governance Strategy

Kelle O'Neal, First San Francisco Consulting Inc.

John Ladley, Imcue Solutions Inc.

We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Jan 19th.

Regards,

Denis Kosar

Event Topic: 
Collaboration Workshops: Discover, Plan, and Prepare Your Product Backlog 

Event Synopsis: (in collaboration with the NYC IIBA chapter)
For continual delivery of high?value product options, your agile team must reach a shared understanding of product needs. Although collaborative techniques are best for this work, not all agile teams use them, or use them efficiently. Others rely too heavily on a few tools (such as user stories or story maps), postponing complex topics and incurring excessive rework. The solution is for product stakeholders to form a partnership to systematically collaborate on planning. Nimble, timely workshops give your team an effective venue for working together transparently to make complex decisions. We explore techniques for product backlog discovery and preparation, and we explain how to use seven dimensions to make sure you capture all product needs. You learn how to hold workshops (not merely meetings), how to adopt decision?making practices essential to collaboration, and how to use value criteria to slice requirements options across product releases. Join Ellen in this fast?paced survey of key practices to engineer collaboration into your agile project to holistically discover, prepare, and deliver product needs. Note: knowledge of and experience with agile projects is desirable, but not required to obtain value from this presentation. If you are using more traditional practices, you will find the principles discussed applicable and adaptable to your work world as well. 

Speaker Information: 
Ellen Gottesdiener - is founder and principal of EBG Consulting, experts helping you deliver high?value products your customers want and need. Ellen is an internationally recognized facilitator, coach, trainer, speaker, and expert in business analysis and requirements, agile product management practices, product envisioning and road mapping, retrospectives, and collaboration. Ellen works with global clients and speaks at numerous industry conferences. Author of two acclaimed books—Requirements by Collaboration and The Software Requirements Memory Jogger—Ellen is co?authoring (with Mary Gorman) a book on practical agile planning and analysis practices. View articles, Ellen’s tweets and blog, free eNewsletter, and find a variety of useful practitioner resources on EBG’s web site, ebgconsulting.com.