Houston Hi-Tech Events Calendar The Houston Hi-Tech Events Calendar contains information on numerous Houston IT professional groups with detailed event schedules, upcoming meetings, and continuing education seminars. JDA is committed to helping IT professionals achieve their ultimate career goals, and we are equally dedicated to educating and informing IT professionals about the opportunities within the Houston IT market. You have selected a previous week. Click here for events this week. August 15, 2010 - August 21, 2010 Aug 15 Sunday   No events scheduled. Aug 16 Monday   No events scheduled. Aug 17 Tuesday   No events scheduled. Aug 18 Wednesday   TBA Event: Houston Oracle User Group Program: Monthly Meeting Location: Houston Baptist University 7502 Fondren Road Houston, TX 77074 Hinton Center (Bldg. 17), Dillon 1 HBU Map   7:15am - 8:30am Event: Houston Business Crossroads Program: "Rady - Fire - Aim" Joseph Doty, Standing on the Ceiling Register Location: Lakeside Country Club 100 Wilcrest Dr (Between Westheimer & Memorial) 713-932-7495 ext. 48   11:00am - 1:00pm Event: AITP Houston Program: Monthly Meeting Location: Hess Club 5430 Westheimer Houston, Texas 77056   11:30am - 1:00pm Event: ARMA Houston Program: Monthly Meeting Location: HESS 5430 Westheimer Way Houston TX 77056   5:15pm - 6:15pm Event: Houston PMI Southwest Program: Monthly Meeting Location: Schlumberger Sugar Land Campus Forum Cafe 210 Schlumberger Drive Sugar Land TX   5:30pm Event: Houston PMI UH Program: Business Objectives are the measurable results a business desires to achieve when executing a project. They can be used to ensure that everything developed in the project contributes to the desired measurable business value. This discussion will help Business Analysts learn to develop good business objectives, to derive requirements from them, and how to apply them to control project scope. Leaning objectives: Understand how Business Objectives are vital to businesses Presenter: Tony Chen is Principal Consultant at Seilevel, Inc., a requirements consulting company based in Austin, Texas focused exclusively on software requirements for Fortune 1000 companies. Tony is responsible for the strategic growth of the company and the development of novel software requirements techniques. These techniques include Objective Chains, Requirements Object Model, People Systems Data visualization and the Requirements Modeling Language (RML®). He earned  B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Microbiology from The University of Illinois and an M.S. in Microbiology from Texas A&M University.  Tony Chen has been a speaker at IEEE Dallas. IIBA meetings in Dallas, Houston, Austin. Will be a speaker at BA World later this year.    Understand how to elicit and write good Business Objectives Understand how to use Business Objectives to assess measurable Location: University of Houston Houston Texas 77204-3038   5:30pm - 8:00pm Event: AWC Houston Program: Monthly Meeting Location: TBA   6:00pm - 8:00pm Event: H-SPUG Program: Starting Small, Growing Large By Troy Lanphier with GUIO There are a number of books and articles that talk about sizing proper implementations of SharePoint based on your current business need – How do you plan for a SharePoint implementation if your business is on the “grow”? The purpose of this session is to show how an environment can be built inexpensively with an eye towards iterative, large scale growth. The major topics that will be covered are: Planning Deciding Where to Start (and Deciding Where to Stop) 10 Steps to Assure a Healthy Growth Pattern Iterative Growth Planning Register Location: Microsoft 2000 West Sam Houston Parkway South, Suite 350 Houston, TX 77042 Aug 19 Thursday   11:30am - 1:00pm Event: Houston ISACA Program: Monthly Luncheon Meeting Location: The Houston Club 811 Rusk Street Houston, Texas 77002   5:30pm - 8:00pm Event: Houston PMI Downtown Program: Monthly Meeting Location: Main Houston Public Library Branch Concourse Level Meeting Room 500 McKinney Street Houston, Texas 77002   6:00pm - 8:30pm Event: WITI Houston Program: Agile Planning: It’s About Value How long will that take? What will that cost? What is that really worth? Although we get asked these questions all the time, answering them with absolute values is hard, rarely as accurate as we would like, and sometimes even a little misleading. Agile planning methods answers these questions is a different way and respects the fact that we often don’t know much about a project when we get asked these questions. Come learn about an evolutionary planning cycle that focuses teams on doing the right work at a reasonable cost, and participate in an on-hands exercise that will help identify the value of the work we take on. Robbie Mac Iver, and Principal Consultant of The Mac Iver Group, LP. Location: Sysco 1390 Enclave Parkway Houston, Texas 77077   6:30pm Event: North Houston DNUG Program: Monthly Meeting Location: Lone Star College - Montgomery, ROOM A102 (in middle of Building A) 3200 College Park Drive The Woodlands, TX 77384 Aug 20 Friday   11:00am - 1:00pm Event: HIMSS Program: Monthly Meeting Location: MD. Anderson Cancer Center Faculty Center conference room FC 1.2002 1515 Holcombe Blvd Houston TX Aug 21 Saturday   9:00am - 2:00pm Event: HAAUG Program: Monthly Meeting Location: TBA Previous Week Next Week Event Search Keyword(s): Date Range (optional): to I would like to request a new event for the Houston Hi-Tech Calendar.