LISA Global Strategies Summit
LISA Workshops in Boston, MA
Defining Global Requirements
Effectively Collect, Describe and Manage Multilingual Software Project Requirements 9am - 5pm : Friday, May 27, 2005
Have you ever had to take a product and adapt it to the world market? Have you ever had to gather multilingual software requirements? How can you describe requirements which vary for different locales? Have you ever had a tight budget forcing you to choose which features to implement and which features to defer? Did you face this problem on a global scale?
Requirements are a critical part of any software project and become extremely complex when simultaneously facing the needs of different locales. This workshop shows you how to systematically approach requirement management for software projects independent of your development process.
The workshop walks you through all phases of a requirement life cycle including elicitation, elaboration, workflow, prioritization, development, testing, deployment and support. Several real life examples from successful globalization projects are covered. You will take home tools, templates and techniques that you can use right away!
Who will benefit from this workshop and why?
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Interested in...
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| Executives |
- gaining insight into organizational impact of software globalization
- learning key business elements of requirement management workflow and prioritization
- tracking projects to ensure they are on target
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| Testing and Development Managers |
- understanding how requirements are implemented in target locales
- adding globalization requirement management to established workflows
- adapting development and testing processes to include globalization requirements
- learning how globalization requirements are prioritized
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| International Directors |
- learning how your organization can participate in requirement elicitation with regional staff and customers
- identify how your organization will influence requirement workflow and prioritization
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| Localization Managers |
- understanding the scope of localization
- understanding any locale specific requirements
- communicating and understanding requirements
- ensuring localized software meets product goals and functions correctly in each locale
- learning how to coordinate with requirement management and development teams
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| Program and Project Managers |
- learning how to adapt your workflow to develop multiple configurations for different locales
- ensuring globalization requirement management is included in the development process
- tracking globalization requirement status for all locales
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| Marketing, Product and Requirement Managers |
- learning how to elicit, describe, prioritize, manage, deploy and support globalization requirements in each locale
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Translation Agencies
Translators |
- participating in requirement elicitation and definition as language experts
- learning how globalization requirement management impacts scope of translation
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About i18N workshops
At i18N Inc., we are committed to providing a high-quality learning experience. We design all of our workshops based on the following principles:
- visual & intuitive: tables, graphics, animation & video provide extreme clarity
- lots of content: rich, relevant content; our handouts can serve as reference
- abstract models: we consider the forest first, then the trees (then the bugs!)
- no sales pitch: our only sales pitch is the quality of our workshops
About Matta Saikali
Matta Saikali is Vice-President Testing Services at i18N Inc. (www.i18n.ca), a firm specializing in internationalization training and consulting. Matta has more than ten years experience in internationalization and localization testing. His testing experience covers more than 30 languages including European, Asian, Arabic, Hindi, etc.
Formerly Director of Software Quality Assurance (SQA) at Gemplus, Matta built up and managed a team of 35 SQA professionals responsible for the testing of the original English version as well as all globalised versions of Windows applications and embedded systems (smart cards) in European and Asian languages.
As Director of SQA at Purkinje, Matta built up and managed the testing team for a multilingual multi-user client-server application for clinical data entry.
Matta was also SQA team leader at ALIS where he was involved in testing all ALIS products, notably their Arabic/Farsi product line.
He can be reached at Matta.Saikali@i18n.ca.
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