NEWS
25 April 2008
Newsletter - April Edition
5 April 2008
New Courses - .NET and
Together
15 March 2008
New product launch
Screen Architect is a prototyping tool specifically developed to allow
rapid prototyping of user interfaces.
Screen Architect is a plug-in to the popular UML CASE tool
Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect allowing
traceability between screen elements and the underlying analysis model.
3 January 2008
New Course - SysML and UML Overview, starting
in Spring 2008.
5 December 2007
New Case Study - Mobile Telephony Pre-Market
Deployment Assessment
15 November 2007
EA Presentation used at
TechEd Barcelona 2007 -
28 September 2007
New Schedule for 2008
30 August 2007
New Courses - SOA
- SOA and Services Oriented Software Development
- SOA Primer
- SOA Business Process Modelling
- SOA and SOA Development for the UML Experienced
- SOA and SOA Development for UML/BPMN Experienced
6 July 2007
New Course - Defining Requirements
This course addresses all aspects of requirement development from
elicitation, to gathering, to verification, to validation and finally
refinement.
27 June 2007
New Course - Silk Test
Borland's integrated suite of quality management software addresses the full range of software quality assurance challenges
across the entire application lifecycle.
26 June 2007
New Course - DefineIT
DefineIT Essentials introduces the analyst or business user to the
fundamental skills of requirements definition using DefineIT.
22 June 2007
New look DT ALM Website launched
20 April 2007
New EA White papers available
20 April 2007
Java, J2EE, EJB courses available
18 April 2007
Web 2.0 course available
02 April 2007
Training services in Turkey.
Starting May 2007, Dunstan Thomas will provide training in Turkey.
28 February 2007
Trivera Technologies EMEA solidifies partnership with Dunstan Thomas.
Starting March 2007, Trivera Technologies EMEA will add a number of powerful Enterprise Architect courses to their curriculum.
These courses will be delivered by, and in full partnership with, Dunstan Thomas. This new set of attractive and highly popular
courses will further broaden the existing range of Enterprise courses available today at Trivera Technologies EMEA.
19 February 2007
New Course - Silk Performer
Borland's integrated suite of quality management software addresses the full range of software quality assurance challenges
across the entire application lifecycle.
06 February 2007
New Courses - Delphi & JBuilder
Dunstan Thomas has a long heritage of providing training and consulting services for Borland's Delphi. The company first started
using Delphi in 19993 when the first 16bit version was still in beta. Over the past decade the company has built many solutions
with the platforms and has trained many hundreds of Delphi developers. Now, for 2007, Dunstan Thomas is pleased to announced the
support for the following training modules for Delphi.
06 February 2007
Learn EJB
Learn all about J2EE and EJB in a one day course with JBuilder 2007 Essentials
29 January 2007
New Course - Requirements Elicitation & Facilitation
This course teaches students how to elicit, analyze, and communicate requirements for software development projects.
29 January 2007
New Course - Designing Java Applications with Together for Eclipse
This 3-day course helps software architects and system designers learn how to use Borland® Together® for Eclipse to develop
high-quality architecture designs using Unified Modelling Language (UML).
29 January 2007
New Course - New features in Together 2006 R2 for Eclipse
This course introduces analysts, software architects, designers, and developers to the new features of Borland® Together®
2006 Release 2 for Eclipse.
22 January 2007
New Course - Silk Performer - Modelling and Implementing
Create a test plan, configure and record a test script, randomize data to create realistic loads, modularize code through
functions and transactions, and establish and confirm a baseline.
22 January 2007
New Course - Silk Performer - Results Analysis and Correlation
Valuable instruction for those who want to improve their skill-set in load test results analysis and interpretation.
19 January 2007
New Course - Upgrading from UML 1.4 to UMP 2.0
This course provides analysts, software architects, designers, and developers with the necessary skills to upgrade systems
models in UML 1.4 to UML 2.0.
19 January 2007
New Course -UML Essentials using Together 2006 R2 for Eclipse
This workshop is a thorough presentation of the Unified Modelling Language (UML 2.0) and includes practical advice on effective
usage in development projects and is suitable for business analysts and developers.
20 November 2006
TechEd Barcelona - a review
Following our presence at the TechEd in Barcelona, we have decided to book our place at the Orlando event in June 2007.
Much interest was focussed around our Requirements Management proposition with
Raquest. Interest in Enterprise Architect,
continue to be strong. Please visit our EA site at http://www.dthomas.co.uk/dtalm/ea.htm.
17 November 2006
Capturing Software Requirements with Use Cases
Intended for business analysts and developers, this intensive 2-day course focuses on effectively authoring and modelling
Use Cases to drive the software development process.
Capturing Software Requirements with Use Cases
15 November 2006
UML for Java Developers
UML for Java Developers covers the most useful aspects of the UML standard, applying each notation within the context
of an iterative, object oriented development process. Many UML courses focus on analysis and high-level design, falling
short of explaining how you get from there to a working system. UML for Java Developers takes you all the way from system
requirements to the finished code because that, after all, is why we model in the first place.
UML for Java Developers
09 October 2006
EA downloads available
Download the RaQuest TrialAlso found at www.dthomas.co.uk/dtalm/ea.htm
09 October 2006
EA Website launched
www.dthomas.co.uk/dtalm/ea.htm
03 October 2006
CMMI Introduction
This course describes the models fundamental concepts, followed by the continuous model structure, the capability dimension, generic
practices of the model. and the five categories of process areas (PAs), examining each PA and the specific goals and practices that
apply to it.
http://www.dthomas.co.uk/DTALM/training/courses/Development Process/CMMI/CMMI-Introduction.htm
26 September 2006
SCRUM
Dunstan Thomas DT AML SCRUM is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work.
It is an iterative approach which utilises a 30 day cycle.
01 June 2006
Automated QA
Dunstan Thomas become an AutomatedQA partner to provide training and consulting services in the UK ALM market.
01 March 2006
Royal College of Physicians
Dunstan Thomas has done a review and assessment of RCP’s development and support processes and is in the process
of helping them to introduce a controlled software methodology. The have also taken on a new product solution development,
in which Dunstan Thomas are helping with the requirement analysis and architecture selection. Once these are in place we
would provide regular visits to mentor and assist the team with any development or testing issues.
06 September 2005
Microsoft Gold Partner
In recognition for its commitment and expertise in Microsoft technologies, Dunstan Thomas has been awarded with Gold status
the top tier of Microsoft Partners
02 August 2005
Sharepoint Development for Royal Bank of Scotland
Dunstan Thomas Consulting has been selected to deliver a new comprehensive Sharepoint Solution for the
Royal Bank of Scotland's IT department.
07 June 2005
.NET Best Practice Workshop
DT Consulting delivered a very successful workshop on .NET best practices for ASP.NET developers to
South Gloucestershire County Council.
04 March 2005
CaliberRM and Requirements
Dunstan Thomas Consulting has just been engaged by global mining machinery company to provide consulting
on requirements management and Borland's CaliberRM product.
14 January 2005
Vodafone calls DT
Dunstan Thomas Consulting has been engaged to provide business modelling and UML mentoring to Vodafone UK.
03 August 2004
Mortgage Processing Engine
DT Consulting are helping TML Financial Services design and develop a next generation; mortgage processing engine based on
.NET - through which all of its future financial transactions will be processed.
14 July 2004
Revamped Information Architecture for Health Directions Health Directions
A leading market intelligence company for the health sector, have selected DT Consulting to redesign their
current information architecture and help their team design, develop, and deploy and new system based on it.
22 June 2004
Java Architecture and Best Practice Consulting
Ecommerce platform provider for vertical market based in Amsterdam has engaged Dunstan Thomas Consulting to help implement
best practice and improve its software development.
17 June 2004
Pocket PC architecture and code review
Recent engagement with software services company to Airline industry to review the design, architecture and future
of its flagship handheld EPOS system.
12 May 2004
UML and OOA/D
DT Consulting provides UML and OOA/D workshop to Royal Bank of Scotland.
05 May 2004
UML and Enterprise Architect Training
Dunstan Thomas Consultants have been delivering UML and Enterprise Architect training throughout 2004 with
recent clients including Honda Germany, Symbian, and Lockheed Martin.
22 January 2004
Speaking at Microsoft Architect Council
Dunstan Thomas Consulting has been asked to present its work on MDA (model driven architecture)
at Microsoft's Architect Council in February.
09 January 2004
Application Development Advisor Review Board
Dunstan Thomas Consulting has been offered a position on the Application Development Advisor Review Board to
review the technical content of the magazine and provide technical expertise.
24 November 2003
Claverham Group Selects Dunstan Thomas
Defence and Aerospace contractor Claverham Group has selected Dunstan Thomas Consulting to develop a new
version of their Visual Inspection System.
24 September 2003
Dunstan Thomas certified as Rational Gold Partner
Dunstan Thomas Consulting has been awarded Gold Partner status by IBM Rational Software. Gold Partners are
recognized leaders in Rational products and related technology/services including OOA/D and Process Consulting.
Dunstan Thomas is very pleased to be recognised for its achievements in this way and is looking forward to a more
thorough partnership with Rational.
EVENTS
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26 June 2007 - DT ALM Seminar 1
Speed up delivery with Enterprise Architect code generation
A look at how to get the most out of EA’s code generation, from simple class generation to customising the code generation for your own stereotypes. The seminar will also look into PIM to PSM transformations, reverse engineering, and debugging in EA.
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20 April & 19 June 2007 - DT ALM Seminar 2
Improve the success of delivering projects using Enterprise Architect Requirements Management
This seminar covers an overview of how to get Enterprise Architect in conjunction with RaQuest to deliver a requirements management package worth getting excited about. We will look at using use cases, then the custom requirements diagrams to trace from use cases to requirements. The seminar will cover how to track changes to requirements, how to get maximum traceability through your entire project, as well as the documentation produced around the requirements.
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27 April & 3 July 2007 - DT ALM Seminar 3
Design Patterns
An introduction to the “Gang of Four” design patterns, what they are and how to apply them using Enterprise Architect. John Vlissides, Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, and Ralph Johnson now better known today as the gang of four all contributed to the 1994 landmark book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Design patterns can be summed up as object orientated development offering solutions to common problems in software design.
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4-8 June 2007
TechEd Orlando
DT ALM will have a stand at the prestigious event in Orlando, following the great interest received at the recent TechEd in Barcelona for the European market - http://www.microsoft.com/events/teched2006/default.mspx
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12-14 June 2007
Software Architect 2007
DT ALM's Stuart Trotter will be speaking at the conference at the Barbican Centre in London. http://www.software-architect.co.uk/