Xelaration - Software Engineering Capabilities Improvement

Events 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004	2007 November 28, 2007 - 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 28, 2007. This meeting featured a presentation on large-scale IBM Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management (UCM) implementation strategies. Our guest speakers, Eugenio Picado, Patrick Dugal and Serge Charbonneau, Consultants for Xelaration Software, shared their experience on large-scale ClearCase UCM implementation strategies from many implementations they were involved in. Among other things, they provided guidance on how to organize the different ClearCase servers (for VOBs, views, licenses and registry), on how to automate the monitoring of these servers, and on how to perform efficient backups of the VOB servers. The meeting took place on Wednesday November 28, 2007 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. October 10, 2007 - Xelaration Software Hosts a Special Event of the Montreal Rational User Group Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a special event of the Montreal Rational User Group on October 10, 2007. This half-day seminar featured a presentation on how to implement a sound business application modernization strategy. Our guest speaker, Stuart Milligan, Marketing Director for Databorough, presented the issues of business application modernization and discuss potential solutions. He provided the required elements to help organizations and individuals put a well researched and thought out modernization strategy in place. The meeting took place on Wednesday October 10, 2007 from 8:30am to 11:30am in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. Click here to know more about Databorough. May 28, 2007 - Xelaration Software Presents at Business Analyst World 2007 in Montreal Xelaration Software Corporation presented at the Business Analyst World conference in the Palais des Congres of Montreal on May 28, 2007. Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software, presented on the "Business Analysis Best Practices of the Unified Process". Click here to know more about Business Analyst World events. Click here to view the brochure (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Click here to view Serge Charbonneau's presentation (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). April 25, 2007 - 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 25, 2007. This meeting featured a presentation on the IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC). Our guest speaker, Jean-Louis Marechaux, Software Engineering Specialist for IBM Rational Software, presented how software development processes can be modeled with RMC. He showed that RMC can be used to extend the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) or to document software development processes from scratch. He provided the audience with an understanding of the capabilities of the tool and a demonstration of these capabilities. The meeting took place on Wednesday April 25, 2007 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. February 28, 2007 - 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 28, 2007. This meeting featured a presentation on the latest version of the IBM Rational Software suite of tools. Our guest speakers, Martin Morgentaler and Jean-Louis Marechaux, Software Engineering Specialists for IBM Rational Software, presented the latest version of the IBM Rational Software suite of tools including the ones built on the Eclipse platform. They provided the audience with an understanding of the purpose of each tool in the suite and how they all integrate together to automate the complete software development lifecycle. They also provided a demonstration of the tools in the suite. The meeting took place on Wednesday February 28, 2007 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group.

	2006 November 27, 2006 - Xelaration Software Presents at Business Analyst World 2006 in Montreal Xelaration Software Corporation presented at the Business Analyst World conference in the Palais des Congres of Montreal on November 27, 2006. Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software, presented on "Business Analysis in Offshore Software Development" and Eric Soulard presented on "Traceability". Jerome Thiery presented on "Business Process Cartography" on behalf of Syntegix. Click here to know more about Business Analyst World events. Click here to view the brochure (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Click here to view Serge Charbonneau's presentation (in French) (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Click here to view Eric Soulard's presentation (in French) (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). Click here to view Jerome Thiery's presentation (in French) (Adobe Acrobat Reader required). November 22, 2006 - 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 22, 2006. This meeting featured a presentation on how to automate requirements traceability with IBM Rational RequisitePro. Our guest speaker, Michel Blanchard, Independent Software Engineering Consultant, presented how to extend the basic capabilities of IBM Rational RequisitePro to automate requirements traceability. He provided the audience with an understanding on how to use the IBM Rational RequisitePro extensibility interface to extend the basic capabilities of the tool. He demonstrated such an extension that allows the automatic creation and update of traceability links between requirements. This presentation followed a presentation delivered by Eric Soulard at the Montreal Rational User Group meeting of May 9, 2006 on how to implement a sound traceability strategy. The meeting took place on Wednesday November 22, 2006 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. October 17, 2006 - 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 17, 2006. This meeting featured a presentation on the IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM). Our guest speaker, Neil Leblanc, Consultant for IBM, presented how to manage project portfolios with the IBM Rational Portfolio Manager (RPM). He provided the audience with an understanding of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), he highlighted the benefits of PPM and he described implementation possibilities followed by a demonstration of RPM. The meeting took place on Tuesday October 17, 2006 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. June 25, 2006 - Xelaration Software Sponsors a Triathlon Team to Benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Xelaration Software Corporation sponsored a triathlon team to benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. The event took place at Mont Habitant in the Laurentians (North of Montreal) on Sunday, June 25, 2006. Our amateur athletes, Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software, Louis Choiniere, Director of the Business Analysts for the National Bank of Canada, and Patrick Pelletier, Senior Business Analyst for the National Bank of Canada, teamed up to complete the 700 meter swim, 30 kilometer bike ride and 8 kilometer run. People interested in supporting this cause were instructed to make their donation directly to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation at http://www.cbcf.org/become/make_donation.html (Click “single or monthly donation/online”). Electronic receipts were e-mailed to them automatically. They were also instructed to send an e-mail to the following address specifying how much they donated: info@xelaration.com May 9, 2006 - 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 May 9, 2006. This meeting featured a presentation on how to implement a sound traceability strategy. Our guest speaker, Eric Soulard, Independent Process Engineering Consultant, presented how to implement a sound traceability strategy to manage requirements and other artifacts in the system/software product lifecycles. He demonstrated how traceability can provide a return that goes beyond the investment of its creation and maintenance. He described how traceability serves as a tool for ensuring complete coverage between different levels of abstraction and for analyzing the impact of requested changes. The meeting took place on Tuesday May 9, 2006 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. February 7, 2006 - 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 7, 2006. This meeting featured a presentation on how the IBM Rational Software solutions can be leveraged in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) initiatives. Our guest speakers, Ghyslain Cloutier, Software Engineering Specialist for IBM Rational Software, presented IBM Rational Software solutions for managing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) projects and operations. He presented how the IBM Rational Software processes and tools, such as the IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC) and Web Sphere, can be applied to analyze, develop and deploy SOA solutions. The meeting took place on Tuesday February 7, 2006 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. January 30, 2006 - Xelaration Software Delivers IBM Rational Software Open-Enrollment Training in Montreal Xelaration Software Corporation is now delivering open-enrollment training on behalf of IBM Rational Software starting in January 2006. The following classes are currently scheduled for 2006: L'essentiel du Rational Unified Process v2003.06.00 (2 day training in French to be delivered on January 30-31, 2006, on September 25-26, 2006 and on November 27-28, 2006). Mastering Requirements Management with Use Cases (3 day training in English to be delivered on February 6-8, 2006). Mastering the Management of Iterative Development (2 day training in English to be delivered on February 26-27, 2006). Analyse et conception orientées object avec UML (4 day training in French to be delivered on June 6-9, 2006 and on November 7-10, 2006). Gestion des exigences avec les cas d'utilisation (3 day training in French to be delivered on October 11-13, 2006). This training is delivered in the IBM training facility at 1250 Rene Levesque Boulevard, 7th Floor, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the IBM Rational Software training and/or enroll in a training course.

	2005 November 8, 2005 - 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 8, 2005. This meeting featured the presentation of case studies on how IBM Rational Software solutions were implemented in two prominent Montreal organizations: the National Bank of Canada and Loto-Quebec. Our first guest speakers Camille Biner, Patrick Pelletier and Louis Choiniere, Business Analysts for the National Bank of Canada, presented how they implemented a requirements management process based on the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) using IBM Rational RequisitePro, IBM Rational Software Modeler (RSM) and IBM Rational SoDA. Our second guest speaker Jean-Sebastien Neveu, Consultant for Koserto, presented how he implemented a configuration management process using IBM Rational ClearCase at Loto-Quebec. The meeting took place on Tuesday November 8, 2005 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. September 13, 2005 - Xelaration Software Presents at the Montreal Rational User Group Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, hosted a meeting of the Montreal Rational User Group on September 13, 2005 where he presented different approaches for tailoring the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP). The meeting took place on Tuesday September 13, 2005 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the IBM facility at 1250 Rene-Levesque Boulevard West, 7th Floor, Room 777, Montreal, Quebec. Click here to know more about the Montreal Rational User Group. June 19, 2005 - Xelaration Software Participates in a Duathlon to Benefit the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Xelaration Software Corporation participated in a duathlon to collect funds for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Our amateur athlete, Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software, performed a 2 kilometer run, 30 kilometer bike ride and another 8 kilometer run on Sunday June 19, 2005 at Mont Habitant in the Laurentians (north of Montreal). People interested in supporting this cause were instructed to make their donation directly to the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation at www.cbcf.org/become/make_donation.html (Click “single or monthly donation/online”). Electronic receipts were e-mailed to them automatically. They were also instructed to send an e-mail to the following address specifying how much they donated: info@xelaration.com

	2004 October 26, November 9, November 30 and December 1, 2004 - Xelaration Software Presents at Borland Software Seminars Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, presented how to implement the Unified Process with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution as a guess speaker at Borland Software Corporation Seminars. The seminars took place on October 26, 2004 in Montreal, on November 9, 2004 in Ottawa, and on November 30 and December 1, 2004 in Toronto. Click here to know more about these and other Borland Software Corporation events. Click here to know more about Borland Software Corporation. September 30, 2004 - Xelaration Software Presents at the Ottawa Rational User Group Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, presented different approaches for tailoring the IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) at the Rational User Group in Ottawa on September 30, 2004. August 18, 2004 - Xelaration Software Presents at the Ottawa Borland Software Seminar Serge Charbonneau, Principal Consultant for Xelaration Software Corporation, presented how to implement the Unified Process with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution as a guess speaker at the Borland Software Corporation Seminar in Ottawa on August 18, 2004. Click here to know more about this and other Borland Software Corporation events. Click here to know more about Borland Software Corporation.

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