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Congratulations to valued iRise Education Services customers Todd Young of IBM Global Business Services, Meredith Duggar of Capgemini Technology Services, and Garry DeGuzman of eTrade, randomly selected from among the many e-learning course evaluation respondents who provided feedback on the iRise e-learning since our last contest in October. Our three winners each received a $25 Amazon gift certificate with our compliments. Enjoy!
Customer feedback is extremely important to us as we look for ways to improve and expand our current training offerings. To show our appreciation to those of you who take the time to provide this feedback, we plan to repeat our random drawing each quarter. All you need to do to enter is complete one of our courses, and then follow the link to the online evaluation on the course launch page. You will be entered once for each course you evaluate. Happy learning!
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You’re an iRise aficionado, with more modeling hours under your belt than Santa has trips around the world. Now is your chance to prove how much you know about iRise Studio by taking the iRise Explained Knowledge Assessment. This multiple-choice/point-and-click online assessment was developed as part of the iRise Explained e-learning course, and can be accessed from the iRise Explained course launch page. There is no risk in taking the assessment (other than a blow to your ego), since scores are not tracked. You will, however, get the chance to review your results and see which questions you answered incorrectly. So go ahead, show us what you’ve got!
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iRise Education Services is pleased to announce the availability of three new e-learning courses, all freely available for on-demand access. Please see the press release for more information, or go directly to the e-Learning Course page on iRise.com.
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Author, thought-leader and marketing guru Seth Godin is offering an amazing opportunity for you come work with him for 6 months. It’s not going to be easy to get though. You’ll have to convince him that you’re worthy and willing to drop everything to take advantage of it.
Here’s what he’s planning for the six months:
- One hour a day of class/dialogue
- Four hours a day of working on his projects
- Three hours a day of working on your personal project
- Five hours a day of living, noticing, doing and connecting
Here are some key dates:
- Deadline for applications: December 14, 2008
- Open house in his office by invitation only: December 16.
- Start date: January 19, 2009
Read all about it here http://www.squidoo.com/Alternative-MBA
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Congratulations to valued customers Anders Jangbrand of CSC, Pete Dowling of UPS, and Ashley Hall, randomly selected from among the many e-learning course evaluation respondents who provided feedback on the iRise e-learning that launched back in August. Our three winners each received a $25 Amazon gift certificate with our compliments. Enjoy!
Customer feedback is extremely important to us as we look for ways to improve and expand our current training offerings (in fact, look for an announcement next week regarding our newest additions, which were largely the result of customer input). To show our appreciation to those of you who take the time to provide this feedback, we plan to repeat our random drawing each quarter. All you need to do to enter is complete one of our courses, and then follow the link to the online evaluation on the course launch page. You will be entered once for each course you evaluate. Happy learning!
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I hear from a lot of customers that find visualization a bit overwhelming at first. It’s a new way to explore business needs and hear directly from your stakeholders and customers before costly development begins. iRise is the market leader in visualization. Over 200 customers have improved their processes by visualizing their needs.
So to help you begin your first journey, I’ve decided to put together a getting starting guide for you.
- (5min) Browse the iRise Product Overview Video. Take a quick look at visualization and how it can benefit you. There are plenty of customer testimonials and product videos in the Media center if you are interested.
- (15min) Take the iRise Product Tour. Explore how iRise can help you based on your role in the company.
- (15min) Download iRise. iRise offers a free fully-functioning 30 day trial of the iRise Professional Edition product. Individual business analysts, interface designers and project managers can leverage powerful visualization techniques already in use by hundreds of corporate customers to get business critical software projects to market faster, with less cost and risk.
- (4+hrs) Take the iRise eLearning courses. iRise helps get you started with 2 free eLearning courses. iRise Overview, a self-paced, eLearning course designed to introduce iRise to anyone responsible for selecting and/or using iRise on a project and iRise Explained, a self-paced, eLearning course that covers an introduction to the basic capabilities of iRise and how to use such capabilities to elicit and validate requirements and designs for page flow, page layout, navigation, data, business logic, high fidelity user interfaces and dynamic user interaction using actions, events, alternate views, styles, templates and masters..
- (5min) Download the Common Samples iDoc. This iDoc can be opened in your trial version of iRise and gives you a number of useful visualization examples. Copy and paste what you need into your new project. Want to see how high definition, data driven visualizations are done? Use the Common Samples iDoc as a guide. Speed up learning and get your next project kicked off fast.
That’s it, you’ve developed a high level understanding of iRise and visualization. Now you have 29 days left on your trial, get visualizing!
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Occasionally, we will get the question from companies “what can I do with iRise and how do I do it?”.
Jeesh, where should we begin…you know what, just check out one of our new online courses. These new self-paced eLearning modules can be accessed by anyone with an Internet browser and cover both basic and advanced simulation concepts and techniques using iRise.
There are currently two free courses for you to take:
iRise Overview
iRise Overview is a self-paced, eLearning course designed to introduce iRise to anyone responsible for selecting and/or using iRise on a project. This course provides a broad overview of the various components of iRise and how iRise can be used to elicit and validate complete and accurate requirements and designs. After completing the course, participants will have a general understanding of iRise and capabilities to achieve such goals.
iRise Explained
iRise Explained is a self-paced, eLearning course that covers an introduction to the basic capabilities of iRise and how to use such capabilities to elicit and validate requirements and designs for page flow, page layout, navigation, data, business logic, high fidelity user interfaces and dynamic user interaction using actions, events, alternate views, styles, templates and masters. The course is full of demonstrations and simulations to provide a rich learning experience for new users as well as experienced users that need a quick refresher. After completing the course, participants will be able to start using iRise on real-life projects.
These are both really well done. Even as an iRise employee, I found some new tips and tricks. Go ahead, check them out.
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Even if you’re a not a writer or lover of words, it is still important to note that today is the 80th birthday of the First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary or OED as it more commonly known. The OED bills itself as the “definitive record of the English language” and is one of the most famous dictionaries in history.
The OED was a major collaborative efforts and a precursor of today’s Wikipedia. During the 70 years from it’s approval date to it publish date on June 6, 1928, the OED went through many editors. Sir James Murray shepherded it from 1879 to 1915, and probably had the biggest influence on the work.
The official policy of the OED was to:
- “present in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records [ca. AD740] down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology. It embraces not only the standard language of literature and conversation, whether current at the moment, or obsolete, or archaic, but also the main technical vocabulary, and a large measure of dialectal usage and slang”
Here are some quick facts about the First Edition of the OED:
- Actual size – 10 volumes, 15,490 pages
- Time to complete – 70 years
- Number of entries – 252,200
- Number of contributors – 2,000
- Number of quotations submitted – 5 million
And here are some quick links to check out when you have more time:
- OED website
- OED Facts
- OED Word of the Day
- The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester - “this is a scintillating account of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language” and well worth the read if you want to become an expert on the OED
While iRise is trying to do away with textual word-based requirements documents, we still love words and the English language! Take a moment today and reflect on the efforts of so many to bring sense and order to our English language.
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We just rolled out a new Media Center on the iRise website last week. You should definitely check out the Media Center if you’re interested in learning more about how to use iRise and learning what others are saying about iRise. With the Media Center Launch, we have included 9 new Product “QuickTakes” and 5 Product Walk Through videos. You can also check out general videos on iRise along with video testimonials from our customers and partners.
iRise Product “QuickTakes” are short 2-3 minute videos that cover the following topics:
- Masters and Templates
- The iDoc
- Capturing Text Requirements
- Managing Feedback
- Datasheets
- Walk Through Notes
- iRise and Collaboration
- Building Business Logic
- iRise Scenarios
iRise Product Walk Throughs are longer videos and include detailed demos and explanations of iRise:
- Getting Started with iRise
- Page Components in iRise
- iRise Detailed Demo
Stay tuned as we will be adding more videos to the site in the near future.
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Everything looks better on a Mac, right? And iRise is no exception.
While iRise is not ‘officially’ supporting iRise on the Mac yet, people are already using iRise Studio and iRise Reader on the Mac. So don’t think that you can’t experience the power of visualization on iRise because you are a Mac user, because you can.
iRise’s QA department is also starting to do some preliminary testing with iRise on the latest versions of the 2 emulators to gain some hands-on experience. This blog post discusses some of the Windows operating system or OS emulators that people have been using on the Mac and identifies a couple of key points to keep in mind.
The two emulators which let you run Windows software side-by-side in the Mac OS include:
iRise probably works with Apple’s Boot Camp (which lets you partition you hard drive to dual-boot Windows and the Mac OS), but the two emulator products are being looked at first. Note that the Windows emulators or virtualization software mentioned above lets you run Windows side-by-side within the Mac OS.
Here are some key points to keep in mind:
- RAM - 4 gigabytes of RAM is recommended due to the overhead of running the Mac OS as well as the emulator
- Studio and Reader only – we are not currently looking into running Definition Center on the Mac and do not have any experience with this combination
- Browser – you will need to run the Internet Explorer browser as iRise is not compatible with Safari
- Issues - Parallels seems to have a couple of re-paint issues on newer Java applications that do not occur in Fusion
If you have comments, questions or real life experiences to share, please visit the iRise User Community on Catalyze. We have also posted details of what we are currently testing in our QA department in the iRise General Forum and have started a discussion topic called iRise on the Mac.
For more information on the iRise User Community, check out this link.
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