Gillian Adens

Gillian Adens

Sparx Services UK (Hippo Software)

EA Consultant / Trainer
 
Gillian Adens is director at Sparx Services UK (Hippo Software), an authorised services partner for Sparx Systems for the UK and Northern Europe. Gillian studied joint honours Mathematics and Computing Science at Glasgow University and is a Chartered IT Professional Member of the British Computer Society. Gillian was one of the first adopters of UML and Sparx EA in the UK (using Sparx EA from V2 onwards). She is also an expert in BPMN and ArchiMate industry standard notations. Gillian currently provides formal training and consulting services to a wide range of organisations. She has considerable experience of software project management, analysis & design and assists clients with the adoption of processes, tools and technologies.

This new training course teaches ArchiMate business, application and technology layers as well as motivation and implementation & migration extensions (providing full support for TOGAF).

 

http://www.hippo-software.co.uk/pages/EAforArchitectureandStrategy.htm

This workshop teaches delegates how to customise Enterprise Architect using profiles. Delegates learn how to build an MDG technology containing profiles for custom diagram types, toolbox pages, elements and relationships. Element profiles can define colours, fonts, shapes and tagged value properties.

Learn how to use ArchiMate and Enterprise Architect to model your enterprise architecture. Understand the complex inter-dependencies between people, processes, applications, data and hardware. Use ArchiMate to align your business and IT strategies. Register now to attend on 18th or 19th June 2014.

 

http://www.sparxsystems.com/resources/webinar/partners/archimate/archimate-introduction-hippo.html

This new training course teaches delegates how to create ArchiMate business and motivation viewpoints in Enterprise Architect. Learn to model business organisation, processes and products and identify stakeholders, drivers, goals and requirements.

 

Hippo Software introduces a new 2-day ‘EA Scripting Workshop’ that teaches delegates how to write scripts to control and update models in Enterprise Architect. Delegates use VBScript to automate repetitive tasks such as updating tagged values, to manipulate diagrams, to perform a complex search and to transfer data to/from MS Excel.

 

Visit the Hippo Software website for details of our full range of training courses and workshops.

Hippo Software provides competitive prices for on-site or webinar training, for small or larger groups of delegates.

 

Hippo Software is delivering a BPMN workshop at the ‘Telecoms for Smart Grids’ conference in London on 25th September 2013. This workshop teaches delegates how to create business process models in order to assess and communicate business change. Workshop leaders will also demonstrate effective use of Enterprise Architect to capture and document business processes.

 

Future Networks and Policy at Scottish & Southern Energy Power Distribution are researching new systems and building foundations for Smart Grid Networks. This paper tells of a journey based on a vision to introduce more formal modelling methods using an IT practice to allow the company to deliver business-driven end-to-end solutions that meet business needs.

Hippo Software introduces an ‘Enterprise Architect ArchiMate for Enterprise Architecture’ training course that teaches delegates how to create business, application and technology viewpoint diagrams in Enterprise Architect.

 

Visit the Hippo Software website for details of our full range of Enterprise Architect training courses and workshops.

 

Hippo Software provides competitive prices for on-site training courses and workshops throughout the UK and Europe, even for a small number of delegates.

For more details visit: http://www.hippo-software.co.uk/pages/EAArchiMateforEA.htm

 Hippo Software

Scenario:
"Your organisation has standardised on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and you are using an iterative software development process. You’re planning the first production iteration of your software development project and now it’s time to publish a firm delivery date."

This tutorial provides a simple step by step guide to the estimation process, starting with a UML model in the Enterprise Architect CASE tool and resulting with a detailed project schedule in Circa.

 

There are 7 easy steps:

1. Import UML software artifacts from Enterprise Architect

2. Assess their size and complexity

3. Apply technology metrics

4. Account for any production activities

5. Profile the development team’s skill levels

6. Scope the first iteration

7. Schedule the first iteration

Project Plan in 60 Minutes

 



Hippo Software introduces an Enterprise Architect workshop that teaches delegates how to confidently use the RTF editor to create RTF templates that extract documentation from models held in Enterprise Architect. Delegates learn how to select and order content and define the format and layout of generated documents.

  • Day 1 – Learn theory and apply it to a worked example based on a use case requirements specification
  • Day 2 – Trainer guided session to apply your new skills to create your own company templates (optional)

The Hippo Software training catalogue provides details of our full range of training courses and workshops.

Hippo Software provides competitive prices for on-site training courses and workshops throughout the UK and Europe, even for a small number of delegates.

http://www.hippo-software.co.uk/pages/EARTFDocWorkshop.htm 

 

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