IIT online

Subha sent this interesting link on IIT's posting content (video/web) for various topics, for "enriched learning". Signed up for it. As of today the website contains HTML and PDF versions of the courses. Looking forward to video based courses.

Here is the link: http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/indexHome.php

Business Analyst Tools and BABOK

I was browsing through the B2T training website in search for a certification for year 2006 and came across the following Business Analyst Tools.

Also downloaded the Business Analyst Book Of Knowledge from the IIBA website: http://www.theiiba.org/. Next task is to read the BABOK.

Systems Analysis Stories

And you thought learning could not be fun?

Here is an interesting link from USML.edu that discusses systems analysis along with some fables.

Agile Methodology

Lately I have been reading about Extreme Programming and Agile Methodology of software development.

I attended a training session on VSTS (Visual Studio Team Systems) in January 2006, prior to its release. VSTS (the environment at our work place) provides two built-in process templates - MSF for Agile and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement. We used MSF for Agile for the labs in the training session; hence this reading activity.

Here is a link from Agile Alliance. It is a non-profit organization that supports individuals or organizations adopting an agile approach to software development.

I am currently reading articles within the website on Requirements.

View the Principles of Agile Software on www.agilemanifesto.org.

Regular Expressions

I had started reading about Perl regular expressions a couple of years back and been through the Java regular expressions chapter too. I never really got a chance to use them in practice.

Read this quick start link on regular expressions.

The goal of the exercise was to be able to determine if a text would pass the regular expression I was looking at; will try to experiment some, with Java.