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Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 6:00 PM New Horizons, East Syracuse

Bob Savelson presents Challenges with business-development interaction: Observations & eDevTECH solutions. In this 60 minute presentation Bob will cover: Modern Application Development trends; Why requirements still matter in compressed delivery projects; Some of the impediments being encountered today, including timely, clear and complete collaboration between analysts, developers, testers and business stakeholders; Some approaches to addressing these issues; People, Process, Tools eDev’s Modern Requirements Lifecycle platform, inteGREAT, which is built on top of Microsoft’s award winning Visual Studio ALM platform. “Several years ago we found a company called eDevTECH with a product called InteGREAT. It looked a very capable and promising product so we approached them about partnering with us to turn it into a really terrific formal requirements management tool for TFS. InteGREAT continues to evolve and is now a terrific companion product for business analysts wanting to do formal requirements with their TFS based development/test team. It is also complements well the Agile Requirements capabilities we added in TFS 2012.” Brian Harry - Microsoft Technical Fellow working as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server. Bob is a 20 year veteran in Application Lifecycle Management, and its previous naming iterations. He has helped companies around the world solve business problems by discovering current process gaps, applying best practices and facilitating the adoption of technology based productivity solutions. Bob is originally from Montreal and a McGill University graduate. He has held executive positions at NCR, CAI and CGI. His experience ranges from requirements management facilitation to outsourcing of application development, support and infrastructure. He has been working in the requirements space for the past 10 years; as an entrepreneur with his company Digital Mosaic, and now as an executive with eDev Technologies. eDev Technologies, based in Toronto Canada, is a Microsoft Gold Certified partner, and a Visual Studio Platinum Partner. WE HAVE SWAG! Courtesy of Microsoft 1 copy of HALO 4 for XBOX 1 copy of Windows 8 Pro 1 Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000 1 Copy of Programming C# 5.0 Courtesy of Telerik 1 Ultimate Collection for .NET T-Shirts and sports cups

New Horizons Syracuse 6711 Towpath Road, East Syracuse, New York, United States, 13057 A BIG Thank you to New Horizons, Syracuse for graciously hosting our monthly meetings!

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