Better Software Conference & Expo 2008 brochure

cOncuRRenT cLasses ThuRsdaY, june 12, 10:15 T1 ManaGinG proJeCts anD teaMs T5 soa fifteen Tips for speeding up Your project Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. Faster is better for software projects—if and only if all the right elements are in place and ready to go. Sometimes your organization is in a sweet spot—that period of time when your project should start immediately. Other times, it’s better to wait. Join Johanna Rothman to discover how to decide whether your project is ready to go, including how to help your managers define the project portfolio to see where your project fits in and how it supports your organization’s goals. Johanna discusses fifteen ways to measure and steer projects to help you get to the end faster. Learn about rolling wave scheduling, continuous integration, time-boxing, and much more. In this interactive session, you’ll discuss the meaning of “done” so you can help the team finish a project sooner and avoid having it drag on. Although you don’t have to use all of the tips, the more you use, the faster your project will run. a Toolkit for assessing sOa Readiness Jerry Smith, Symphony Services Before charging “full speed ahead” into the land of service-oriented architecture (SOA), you need help to ensure success and mitigate the risks inherent in such major systems changes. Jerry Smith provides proven tools for assessing SOA readiness and outlines the essential steps to implementing SOA. Jerry presents reference SOA architectures that demonstrate solid standards and specifications to compare with your implementation plans. He introduces an SOA Maturity Model to help you understand your current organizational and technological state. The SOA Maturity Model is a communications tool that outlines how the organization’s SOA implementation will evolve along both business and technical lines. Jerry outlines the various stages the model entails and how to apply it so that technical and organizational changes are easily coordinated across the enterprise. With this new toolkit in hand you can deliver a clear action plan to drive the improvements only SOA makes possible. T2 personal DeVelopMent Your attention please: concentration is a Learnable skill Lee Devin, Swarthmore College With the possible exception of the fakir walking barefoot on a bed of nails, no one can focus attention on a single object for more than about fifteen seconds. There’s a practice, though, that anyone can learn to accommodate this fact and go on to solve vexing problems quickly and creatively. Lee Devin borrows from the skills that actors develop to direct their attention so their mind and body behave as if the imaginary world they’ve created is real. Similarly, when you watch a good movie or read a great novel, you direct your attention with singleminded intensity. Using theatre exercises, Lee introduces you to the techniques of warm-up and the skills of concentration. Although simple, they’re by no means easy. Learn and practice these mind-bending exercises and take away a powerful tool that can increase your concentration both at work and in your personal life. T6 seCUrity software security assessment: The naked Truth Herbert (Hugh) Thompson, People Security With software running our most critical business processes, we need to think about both its utility and the risk it can add to those processes. Hugh Thompson describes some of the best current techniques to efficiently assess software security risk. Hugh identifies the biggest risks to your software systems, presents the major categories of security vulnerabilities with their business consequences, and how you can begin an effective software risk assessment process. Specifically, Hugh discusses the 17 critical questions to ask vendors, software component suppliers, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers about their product before you commit to using it. He describes how to benchmark your own software security practices, the top application security flaws that put your business at risk and their symptoms. You’ll also learn to make more securitysavvy software acquisition, development, and outsourcing decisions. T aGile DeVelopMent T7 speCial topiCs continuous integration: The cornerstone of a great shop Jared Richardson, 6th Sense Analytics Jared Richardson believes that of all the development practices being promoted today the best single practice is continuous integration. It’s a simple concept— you run a software program that monitors your source code in an automated version control system. When anything changes, your code is automatically checked out, re-built, and all the automated tests are re-run. Continuous integration gives you an early warning if anything in the most recent changes broke the software. Continuous integration forces you to use 100 percent source code management and demands a solid, automated build script. It provides a framework for your automated tests to grow, live, and thrive. Continuous integration becomes a new “team member” who keeps a constant eye on your code and provides the reminders you need to keep the product solid and your team on track. Join Jared to learn the steps to introduce continuous integration into your shop and how to set it up yourself. sOX and hippa and Respa, Oh My! Mastering software compliance Elle Ringham, Cognizant Technology Solutions Determining whether legal and contractual issues apply to your development efforts isn’t always simple. There may be some obvious factors—industry regulations, service level agreements (SLAs), and state or federal agency oversight. However, other factors may not be so obvious. Even today, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is largely legally untested, subjecting your company to unknown legal risks. Examining legal, compliance, and audit issues throughout the QA process lifecycle, Elle Ringham discusses the right questions to ask and what to do with the answers. She provides guidelines you need to work with stakeholders, developers, attorneys, and auditors. Incorporate legal requirements and compliance issues as part of the architecture, development process, and for all strategic business initiatives. Take away audit templates, metrics to help you know where you stand, and sample reports you may need to produce in your current or next project. T4 MetriCs The uncertainty surrounding the cone of uncertainty Todd Little, Landmark Graphics Corporation Barry Boehm first defined the “Cone of Uncertainty” of software estimation more than twenty-five years ago. The fundamental aspect of the cone is quite intuitive—that project uncertainty decreases as you discover more during the project. Todd Little takes an in-depth look into some of the dynamics of software estimation and questions some of the more common interpretations of the meaning of the “cone.” Todd presents surprising data from more than one hundred “for market” software projects developed by a market-leading software company. He compares their data with other published industry data. Discover the patterns of software estimation accuracy Todd found, some of which go against common industry beliefs. Understanding the bounds of uncertainty and patterns from past projects help us plan for and manage the uncertainties we are sure to encounter. Take back a collection of measures and metrics you can use to track and analyze uncertainty in your current and next project. To regisTer call 888-268-8770 or 904-278-0524 or visiT www.sqe.com/bscereg 21 http://www.sqe.com/bscereg

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