SCRUM Breakfast Oktober 2010 (Zürich)

Enhancing agile development with software assessment

Date

Wednesday, 6th October 2010

08:00 to 11:00 am

Location

SwissICT

Vulkanstrasse 120
8048 Zürich

Content

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 and fast. However, software systems are large and complex and they handle large amounts of data. Thus, they present many more details than we can reliably control. Approaching the problem in an ad-hoc manner does not benefit us.

Assessment is a critical activity to ensure proper decisions involving large amounts of details. And it is expensive, too, with various studies reporting assessment to account for as much as 50% of the total development effort. As such, it should be addressed explicitly in the development process.

In this talk, Tudor Girba will provide an overview on the problem of assessment and illustrate how the current popular approaches fail to solve it because they are either ad-hoc or too generic. He then describes agile assessment, a new approach that puts emphasis on offering contextual and continuous feedback.

Audience

The Scrum Breakfast is a monthly exchange of information around Scrum. The breakfast offers discussion, information and hands-on experience to CIO?s, executive and operational project managers. The program starts with a short presentation on an interesting topic around Scrum. Then follows a moderated discussion among the participants to encourage an exchange of know-how and experiences.

Program

Speaker

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 main expertise lies in the area of software engineering with focus on software assessment, and he is currently helping companies assess and manage large software systems and data sets. 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).

Participation fee

Participation is free

Registration

Registration deadline is until 4th October 2010

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Cancellation

Please inform us as soon as possible if you can not participate: : info@swissict.ch.

Event Management / Organization

Peter Stevens, Sierra-Charlie Consutling, Leiter Fachgruppe Lean, Agile & Scrum

Carol Lechner, Geschäftsstelle SwissICT

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