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Exclusive Offer for IASA Members:

Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit 2007
June, 13-15
Nashville, TN
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The Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit has been created to help provide guidance on how to meet new challenges, acquire new skills and adapt to the changing demands of businesses.  An innovative agenda with three tracks and over 30 content packed sessions, will explore the effects of changing environment on business models and the future of enterprise architecture. For more information and to register, visit gartner.com/us/ea-spring.

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IASA members will receive a discount of $200 off the standard price for registration. To qualify for this discount, you MUST call XXX-XXX-XXX and mention Priority code XXXXXXX when registering to receive this discount. This discount is not available through Web registrations.

Upcoming IASA Webinar:

Title: Enough Process Let's Do Practices
Speaker: Ivar Jacobson
Date: Thursday June 21, 2007
Time: 9:00 am CST (2pm GMT)
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Fee: free

Abstract:
The world of software development is constantly changing and evolving. New ideas arise all the time and existing ideas go in and out of fashion. Software development processes find it very hard to keep up with this rapid rate of change, especially as they find themselves quickly going of fashion or becoming bloated as they bolt on more and more information...
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About the Author:
Dr. Ivar Jacobson is one of the great thought-leaders in the software world where he has made several seminal contributions. He is one of the fathers of components and component architecture, use cases, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process.

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Featured Skills Library Article:

To Prototype, Or Not To Prototype?
A picture can replace a thousand words; a prototype can save you lots of meetings and possibly avoid a project failure.

by Danut Prisacaru

Prototypes
Imagine you own a piece of land and want to build a house there. You hire a construction company to do it for you, but you need to tell them what you want. They listen to you then they go to the drawing board and create the floor plans for you. That is way too technical for your skill, you are not a civil engineer and you have no experience in reading floor plans. You may be able to understand a little but not all the details.

The constructors go back and build a small scaled version of your future house.  Now it is a 3D model, you can see how big the master bedroom is compared to the living room. You can give them feedback, you can tell me that the kitchen is too small in your opinion or that you want the garage to be positioned in a different place. The constructors go back and rebuild the prototype based on your request. That happens a few times until you are pleased with what your future house will look like.

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