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November 26, 2008 - Xelaration Software Hosts a Meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group

Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group on November 26, 2008. This meeting featured a presentation on Requirements Definition with the Rational Requirements Composer (RRC).

The definition of needs is the first step towards the development of a system. Today's analysts struggle with a certain number of difficulties in capturing and documenting these needs. To compensate for these difficulties, a tool that can assist analysts in defining these needs is always recommended if it facilitates the formulation of these needs, the collaboration between stakeholders and the validation process.

Our guest speaker, Cherifa Liamani, Software Engineering Specialist for IBM Rational Software, presented how the Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) can assist analysts in accomplishing this efficiently. More specifically, she explored in more details the principles behind this critical phase of requirements engineering and she demonstrated these principles in the tool.

The meeting took place on Wednesday November 26, 2008 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec.

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November 12, 2008 - Xelaration Software Hosts a Meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group

Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group on November 12, 2008. This meeting featured a presentation on Software Development Process Modeling with MDA, SPEM and RMC.

The Object Management Group (OMG) is a consortium consisting of a broad range of research institutions, software companies and government organizations. The OMG promotes a concrete architecture for any Model Driven Development (MDD) called the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). The MDA provides us with a conceptual framework and a set of standards to express models and model relationships in a platform independent manner. One of these standards is called SPEM (Software and System Process Engineering Metamodel) which is an object-oriented specification which describes how to model a software process.

Our guest speaker, Justin Kelleher, Independant Software Engineering Consultant, storyboarded the components of the MDA framework, as well as gave practical examples of how to use it. He described the main components of the SPEM and how it is used by the Rational Method Composer (RMC) along with describing the impact of SPEM on practitioners. This presentation was particularly useful to those who like to understand more about Model-Driven-Development standards or MDA and how they impact modelling efforts, especially when modelling software processes with RMC.

Justin Kelleher has ten years of international experience in the IBM Rational domain space both as an independent consultant and with a large multinational telecommunications company. He recently submitted a doctorate on Requirement Engineering where he utilised MDA's and the SPEM in the evolution of new approaches to modelling different requirement scenarios.

The meeting took place on Wednesday November 12, 2008 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec.

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October 16, 2008 - Xelaration Software Hosts a Meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group

Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group on October 16, 2008. This meeting featured a presentation on some of the new solutions from IBM Rational Software: Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Rational Quality Manager (RQM).

Our guest speakers, Martin Morgentaler and Richard Cormier, Software Engineering Specialists for IBM Rational Software, first presented how Rational Team Concert (RTC) facilitates collaboration between the members of the software development team. They showed how RTC is built on top of Jazz, the new IBM Rational technology platform. Second, they presented how Rational Quality Manager (RQM) improves the quality of the delivered software.

The meeting took place on Thursday October 16, 2008 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec.

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July 22, 2008 - Xelaration Software Presents at the Connect-to-Win IBM Business Partner Event in Toronto

Xelaration Software Corporation presented at the Connect-to-Win IBM Business Partner Event in Toronto on July 22, 2008. Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software, presented the profile of the company to IBM Software executives and other business partners that IBM selected for this event.

May 5, 2008 - Xelaration Software Presents at Project World 2008 in Montreal

Xelaration Software Corporation presented at the Project World conference in the Palais des Congres of Montreal on May 5, 2008. Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software, presented on "Software Project Management using an Iterative Lifecycle Model".

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April 23, 2008 - Xelaration Software Hosts a Meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group

Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group on April 23, 2008. This meeting featured a presentation on two components of the IBM Rational ClearCase solution: Multisite and ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC).

Our guest speakers, Eugenio Picado and Patrick Dugal, Consultants for Xelaration Software, presented two components of the IBM Rational ClearCase solution: Multisite and ClearCase Remote Client (CCRC). They first introduced each component and they then described in what context each component should be used.

The meeting took place on Wednesday April 23, 2008 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec.

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February 27, 2008 - Xelaration Software Hosts a Meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group

Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group on February 27, 2008. This meeting featured a presentation on the test solutions from IBM Rational Software.

Our guest speaker, Martin Morgentaler, Software Engineering Specialist for IBM Rational Software, presented the IBM Rational Software test solution and how this solution can improve the quality of a software application. He first introduced the different components of the solution: IBM Rational ClearQuest Test Manager, IBM Rational Manual Tester (RMT), IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT), IBM Rational Performance Tester (RPT), IBM Rational Robot, IBM Rational SOA Tester and IBM Rational Keyword Driven Testing. He then demonstrated how these components integrate to develop high-quality software applications.

The meeting took place on Wednesday February 27, 2008 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec.

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