Coming Up 13 Sep 2010

Here’s a run down of three events coming up soon.

Rochester Java Users Group, Tue 14 Sep

A career focused meeting with a panel of three recruiters discussing how the job market has changed. People go about searching for new opportunities in a different way, hiring companies look for new talent differently, and the recruiter’s role has changed as well - compared to the 80-ies/90-ies way of browsing the local newspaper and sending letters.

This is an opportunity to update yourself on how the (job) world now works, to participate in an interactive evening featuring open discussion between developers and the panelists. The panelists are David Calus of E-R Associates, David Sable of TEKSystems and Eric Derby, The Software Scout.

Meetings start at 6:00 pm and end around 8:00 pm, and take place on the Second floor of the Golisano building, at RIT, room GOL-2400. Directions to RIT can be found at www.rjug.org

Digital Rochester “Get Connected!”, Tue 5 Oct

On Tuesday evening, October 5th, 2010, Digital Rochester is hosting its eighth annual Get Connected! networking event (http://digitalrochester.com/events/previous-events/networking/). The evening showcases select organizations in the Greater Rochester area that provide professional networking and service opportunities for their members.

The annual event is DR’s biggest networking gathering of the year, welcoming a remarkable mix of Rochester’s best. There will be tech groups, professional associations and service organizations – altogether a great way to find opportunities for you to plug into good things happening in the greater Rochester region!

Get Connected! will be in the very cool second floor atrium of Village Gate, right in the heart of Rochester’s Neighborhood of the Arts. Check out the sculptures, two story mobiles and artwork hanging from the ceiling! It’s an intriguing space and a one-of-a-kind opportunity to connect with all of these great organizations in one place at one time!

IIBA Rochester NY “User Stores”, Wed 6 Oct

IIBA Rochester NY will host a live webinar with Susan Burk on Wed Oct 6 at NimbleUser, 656 Kreag Road, Pittsford NY 14534. Susan will speak on the subject of user stories and use cases.

Use cases, user stories, and scenarios are key techniques for eliciting, analyzing and specifying behavioral requirements. In this pragmatic, experience-based presentation, Sue Burk, Sr. Associate at EBG Consulting, explains the differences between these techniques, and some of their challenges. Sue shares tips on how to “right-size” use cases and user stories and test them with scenarios. Whether you use agile or traditional requirements methods, you’ll find practical ideas to make sure the time you invest in behavioral requirements is good for your project.

Susan Burk, Sr. Associate with EBG Consulting, has over 25 years’ experience as an analyst, facilitator, mentor, coach and trainer at companies in the US and around the world. She helps technical and business teams become more effective in delivering business value. Her presentations on analysis, modeling, and facilitation topics have been featured for more than 17 years at diverse local, regional and national user group meetings.

Rochester Security Summit, 20-21 Oct

The Rochester Chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), in association with ISACA® Western New York Chapter and Rochester Chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), is pleased to announce that the 5th Annual Security Summit will be held Wednesday October 20 and Thursday October 21, 2010 at the Strathallan Hotel, Rochester NY. The conference will be held 8:00a to 5:00 each day.

For the presentation schedule, visit http://www.rochestersecurity.org/events/.