SCRUM Breakfast April 2010 (Bern)

Enhancing agile development with software assessment

Datum

28. April 2010

8:00 - ca. 11:00 Uhr

Ort

Zühlke Engineering AG
Aarbergergasse 29
3011 Bern
Lageplan

Inhalt

An agile process replaces upfront design with the focus on the ability to react and to decide based on the current situation. But, to take the right decision we need to be able to assess the situation accurately at all times, and given the fast development pace, we need to do it in a timely fashion, too.

Effective assessment requires the relevant information to be available as fast as possible. However, software systems are large and complex and they handle large amounts of data. Thus, they present many details that make difficult the identification of the relevant information.

Approaching the problem in an ad-hoc manner does not benefit us. For example, when it comes to assessing software systems we mostly rely on code reading. Granted, modern IDEs do provide some help, but this solution does not scale when we want to reason about a system as a whole. To put it in perspective, a person that reads one line in two- seconds would require approximately one month of work to read a quarter of a million lines of code. And this is just for reading the code.

Various studies report assessment to account for as much as 50% of the total development effort. Assessment is an important activity and it should be addressed explicitly in the development process. Especially in an agile development process.

This talk proposes a fresh perspective on software assessment. First, I assert that software assessment is a critical activity. Second, I provide an overview of the techniques and tools that can extend the arsenal of a development team. And third, I discuss the implications of integrating these in an agile development process.

Zielgruppe

Das Scrum Breakfast richtet sich einerseits an Auftraggeber, Manager, Betriebsverantwortliche und Projektgeplagte und andererseits an Projektleiter, Projektmitarbeiter und Organisationsmüde.

Programm

Referent

Tudor Girba attained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Berne, Switzerland, and he now works as a consultant at Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH. His interests lie in the area of software engineering with focus on software assessment. He is one of the main architects and developers of the Moose platform (http://moosetechnology.org ), and he participated in the development of several other assessment tools, models and techniques. He is the president of the Moose Association and the Treasurer of the Swiss Group for Object-Oriented Systems and Environments (CHOOSE).

Teilnahmegebühr

Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.

Anmeldung

Anmeldeschluss ist am 26. April 2010.

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Abmeldung

Bitte informieren Sie uns so schnell wie möglich, falls Sie nicht teilnehmen können: info@swissict.ch.

Veranstaltungsleitung / Organisation

Ralph Jocham, Zühlke Engineering AG, Fachgruppe Lean, Agile & Scrum SwissICT

Joscha Jenni, mimacom ag, Fachgruppe Lean, Agile & Scrum SwissICT

Carol Lechner, Geschäftsstelle SwissICT

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