Lone Star Community STC News for November 5, 2007--Meeting

[R. Dale Erickson]

Lone Star Community STC News for November 5, 2007--Meeting
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Meeting Scheduled for SECOND WEEK in November  (THIS WEEK!)

November 8 Meeting: IT Application Lifecycle from a Change Management
Perspective

Perhaps you’ve heard of Information Technology Infrastructure Library
(ITIL) and the application lifecycle. But what are they and what do they
have to do with technical writing?

Lorretta Morgan of Ryder Systems will talk about "IT Application Lifecycle
from a Change Management Perspective." She works daily with the management
issues faced by large organizations including version control, release
management, distribution of hotfixes, and handling requests for changes.
Every change made by the enterprise requires meticulous documentation
before, during, and after the change is rolled into production. "Change
affects every aspect of the software development lifecycle including
documentation," Ms. Morgan said. "Managing change in the application
lifecycle reduces documentation failure and is critical to successful IT
service delivery." Ms. Morgan will discuss ITIL and IT acronyms at a high
level, then explain the IT application lifecycle and relate it all to
technical writing.

Lorretta Morgan has more than 30 years of IT experience including
operations, programming, building and deploying systems, and supporting
transportation management and warehousing applications. She came to Ryder
as Senior Systems Administrator and progressed to change and version
control management. Ms. Morgan has supervised change control processes at
Ryder for over six years, supporting customers like Philips Electronics,
Lucent, Cisco, and Applied Materials. Lorretta Morgan is ITIL certified
for both "Foundations" and "Release, Configuration and Change Management."

Registration
Register online by noon on Monday, November 5, and get a discounted dinner
price! With timely online reservations, the dinner and program cost is $20
for STC members and students with student IDs, and $25 for guests. Without
timely reservations, the dinner and program cost is $25 for STC members
and students with student IDs, and $30 for guests.

The cost for program only attendance with timely online reservations is $5
for STC members and $10 for guests. Without timely reservations, the
program-only attendance is $10 for STC members and $15 for guests.
Program-only attendance is free for students with valid student IDs.

SIN SIG
If you are shy, inactive, or a newcomer, don’t miss another intriguing SIN
SIG session, hosted by Jeanne Foster. SIN SIG meets at 5:45 PM in the same
room as the dinner meeting.

Location:
Crowne Plaza North Dallas/Addison Hotel
14315 Midway Road
Addison, Texas

Agenda:
5:45 PM--Registration and Networking, Newcomer (aka SIN) SIG
6:15 PM--Announcements and Dinner
7:00 PM--Program
8:00 PM--Wrap-up
8:15 PM--Additional networking

For more information, go to http://stc-dfw.org/pages/meet_monthly.htm.

Register online at http://www.stc-dfw.org/pages/meet_reserv.htm by noon,
Today, November 5.

For menu information, go to
http://www.stc-dfw.org/pages/meet_monthly.htm#menu.

We hope you can join us. If you have any questions, please contact
programs at stc-dfw.org.

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