• News: Forthcoming Special Events - Performance Testing seminar
• News: Forthcoming Conferences - Ovum, UKCMG, itSMF UK and itSMF France
• Recent Conference Presentations UKCMG, itSMF Norway
• Whitepapers: Risk Mitigation at easyJet; Capacity Management Primer
• Forthcoming training courses

Strategy Briefing: The Future of Performance Testing, London, 25th October 2010

Capacitas will be running a Strategy Briefing on The Future of Performance Testing on Monday, the 25th October 2010. The Keynote speaker will be James Mackay, Test Manager at easyJet.

Topics covered include:

• The Challenge of Performance Testing
• Aligning Performance Testing with Agile Development
• Cost-effective Performance Testing Tools
• Performance Testing for Virtualised Environments

There is an early-bird discount of 20% available for those paying on or before the 24th of September. Please click here for more information.

Software Testing - A Butler Group Briefing, 22nd September 2010

Capacitas will be exhibiting at the Ovum Butler Group Software Testing Performance Management Strategy Briefing on 22nd September at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London.

UKCMG Forum, London, 13th October 2010

Capacitas will be presenting and exhibiting at the UKCMG Forum 2010 on October 13th. This event will be held at the Novotel London St. Pancras, close to St. Pancras, Euston and Kings Cross stations.

• Danny Quilton will be presenting on Assessing the capacity and performance benefits of a content delivery network (CDN)
• Paul Seaton-Smith will be presenting on Improving your capacity management information system
• Andy Bolton will be presenting on Storm clouds ahead?: A risk analysis of Cloud Computing
• Thomas Barns will be presenting on Ten elements of batch end-to-end elapsed time

Please drop by our stand to meet our staff and discuss any queries that you may have.

itSMF France Annual Conference, CNIT, Paris, 19th October 2010

Capacitas will be exhibiting at itSMF France 2010 in conjunction with its French partner company Timspirit. The exhibition will be held at CNIT, La Défense, Paris, on the 19th of October. Last year's conference was attended by around 1,200 people and had a very interesting programme. Please come to the Timspirit/Capacitas stand to discuss our training programme and advisory services.

itSMF UK Annual Conference, London, 8th-9th November 2010

Capacitas will be exhibiting at itSMF UK 2010. Please drop by our stand to meet our staff and discuss any queries that you may have.

Our Chief Operating Officer, Danny Quilton, will be presenting on What should my Capacity Plan contain? This presentation offers practical assistance to those looking to deliver a Capacity Plan using real world examples from numerous client engagements. The challenges associated with delivering a capacity plan and inertia around capacity plan findings are discussed. Guidance is also provided on the frequency of capacity plan releases and effective communication methods for delivering the key messages of the plan to senior management.

Additionally, at the conference, the Capacitas course Capacity Planning & Management Processes. This course provides a framework for building an integrated, effective and efficient process. This will follow the main conference programme on the 10th-11th November at the same venue. The fee for attending this course will be £399+VAT (a 69% saving on our normal price of £1,280+VAT) and can only be booked via itSMF at events@itsmf.co.uk.

UKCMG Annual Conference, Oxford, 17th-18th May 2010

Capacitas presented on the following topics:

• Driving Development for Performance through Targeted Testing
• Low Cost Performance Testing

itSMF Norway Annual Conference, Oslo, 2nd-3rd March 2010

Capacitas presented on the following topic:

• How to Deliver Business-Driven Demand Planning

The presentation material is available on our website Research area.

Delivering Risk Mitigation for easyJet.com

Performance testing and performance modelling have long been used to reduce the risk of poor performance impacting business services, but often in isolation. This paper discusses the relative merits and weaknesses of each approach, and the tools, people and processes required to deliver them. The presentation shows how Capacitas has integrated testing and modelling processes in order to provide cost-effective risk mitigation for the www.easyJet.com service.

Capacity Management Primer

This paper provides a short introduction to the role of capacity and performance management.

Please click here to download any whitepapers (registration required - this is free).

All public training below is held at our Training Centre at our head office in London, UK.

Please click on the above links to review the course descriptions or email us at Capacitas Training. More details...

Please note that the courses above do not include the associated examination. The examination and a study tutorial are purchased separately. More details...

Recent customers of Capacitas include: easyJet, National Australia Group, Nokia, BSkyB and Atos Origin. For more details on what some of our customers have to say about us please have a look at our testimonials and training feedback pages.

If you are interested in learning more about our services please email Contact Us, or call +44 (0) 20 7841 9950.