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SWEN Workshops "Agile Development in Practice" with Kevlin Henney, 10. & 11.12.2009
by Kropp Martin 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Dear CHOOSE and SWEN friends, the SWEN Software Engineering Network is very pleased to invite you for two workshops: ============================================================= Agile Development in Practice - for managers and - for developers ------------------------------------------------------------- Conducted by: Kevlin Henney, Software architect and pragmatic agilist. ============================================================= 10. and 11. December 2009 At Technopark Zurich Target Audience - Project Manager, R&D Manager, CEO of sme's who want to know what agile development means from management perspective and how it is done in practice. - Software Developers who want to learn best practices of agile software development and how to implement them in their projects. About Kevlin Henney: Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer based in Bristol, UK. He has variously developed and delivered training courses, consultancy and software across a number of domains ever since getting involved in professional software development in the late 1980s. Kevlin's work focuses on software architecture, patterns, development process and programming languages. He has been a columnist for various magazines and online publications, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report and C++ Report. With Frank Buschmann and Doug Schmidt, he is coauthor of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series: A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages. Kevlin is the editor of the "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know" project. About the Workshops Agile development promises a more reactive and responsible approach to development. But what does this mean in practice for managers and other non-developer roles or developers? There are many misconceptions about what agile development entails for project management, ranging from no management to extreme management and also for day-to-day programming, ranging from a lack of discipline to a straitjacketed and rule-driven regime. These issues will be tackled in the two separate workshop days: WS1: Agile Development in Practice for Managers The goal of the Agile Development in Practice for Managers workshop is to present a sample of many of the process ideas that agile development encompasses (including XP, Scrum and Lean Development), and also many of the practices individuals, teams and companies find beneficial, addressing questions of decision making, development activities, planning and requirements. WS2: Agile Development in Practice for Developers The goal of the Agile Development in Practice for Developers workshop is to present a sample of many of the practical ideas that agile development encompasses (including XP, Scrum and Lean Development), and also many of the practices individuals, teams and companies find beneficial, addressing questions of decision making, testing, coding style, incremental design and refactoring. The workshop language is English Info and registration ---------------------- You find more detailed information, the flyer for download and the registration on our web site http://www.swen-network.ch/veranstaltungen/ws2009-2/ The number of participants is limited to 20 per workshop Registration Fees: ------------------ The workshops are free for SWEN members For Non-Members 150.- CHF per workshop (or become SWEN Member :-) ) Your Software Engineering Network SWEN Martin Kropp www.swen-network.ch -------------------------------------------------------- Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Hochschule für Technik Institut für Mobile und Verteilte Systeme Prof. Martin Kropp Dozent Steinackerstrasse 5, CH-5210 Windisch -------------------------------------------------------- T: +41 56 462 4735(direkt) martin.kropp(a)fhnw.ch www.fhnw.ch

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CHOOSE Sig Beer - Ralph Jocham - The Risks of SCRUM - U Bern, Dec 8 @ 17h30
by Oscar Nierstrasz 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

The CHOOSE executive board is pleased to invite you to a presentation by Ralph Jocham (Zühlke Engineering AG) on 'The Risks of SCRUM'. This event is free for all SI-CHOOSE members, even the drinks after the talk! Non-CHOOSE members are also welcome, and are encouraged to fill out the membership application form (http://www.s-i.ch/) before attending the meeting. If you want to know more about CHOOSE and the events which CHOOSE organises, please visit www.choose.s-i.ch NB. Please register for this event at: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/2009-12-08-jocham ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Risks of SCRUM ================== When: 17h30, Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009 Where: Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik (IWI), Universitaet Bern, Engehaldenstrasse 8, 3012 Bern, Hoersaal 001 Travel instructions: http://scg.unibe.ch/contact/maps Speaker ------- Ralph Jocham Agenda ------ 17h30 Talk and Q/A Afterwards you are invited to a refreshment. Abstract ======== Scrum has done a lot of good to the world of software engineering and its rising popularity made it a synonym for Agile. Scrum is agile, but Scrum does not enforce agile software development practices. Scrum mainly helps to surface and handle management problems and the resulting risks, but technical issues can go undetected for long, even until it is too late. Without a focus on continuous improvement of technical excellence the health of the code base is at risk. At the end of the day, good management is a pre-cursor for success but to sustain in the long run, the technical complexity of software projects must not be ignored. Bio === Ralph Jocham is an agile passionate information technology professional with extensive software development experience using agile methodologies. A leading thinker in applying Agile/Scrum/Lean/Theory of Constraints for process improvements to maximize ROI. Over eleven years in programming object oriented systems and in search of advancing his craft made Ralph a versatile, highly productive software engineer and agile coach. He currently works as an Agile Coach and Consultant for Zühlke Engineering AG in Bern, Switzerland.

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CHOOSE Forum 2009: Human-centric software development, Nov 23, Bern
by Harald Gall 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Dear members of CHOOSE, We are pleased to invite you to the CHOOSE Forum 2009 to be held on November 23 at the Allegro Grand Casino Kursaal in Bern. The full day event consists of five talks and a panel on the topic of "Human-centric software development." The speakers are: - Prof. Arie van Deursen, Delft University of Technology - Prof. Jim Whitehead, University of California, Santa Cruz - Prof. Andrew Ko, University of Washington - Peter Stevens, Sierra Charlie Consulting - Dr. Tudor Gîrba, Sw-eng. Software Engineering GmbH The day also features the CHOOSE General Assembly, including reports from the President and the Treasurer. More details together with the registration form can be found on the official webpage: http://choose.s-i.ch/events/forum2009 We hope to see many of you at the Forum! Kind regards, Harald Gall, Michele Lanza and Tudor Girba

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