Better Software Conference & Expo 2008 brochure

MOndaY pRe-cOnfeRence TuTORiaLs MOndaY, june 9, 8:0–4:0 (fuLL daY) The Leadership Tutorial: improving Your ability to stand and deliver FULL DAY Ma Andy Kaufman, Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development Inc. In this highly interactive session, Andy Kaufman helps you wrestle with real world leadership issues we all face—influencing without authority, motivating your team, and dealing with conflict. Explore the difference between leadership and management—and why it matters—and get a clear picture of a leader’s responsibilities, including the balance between short-term and long-term focus and the need to deliver results while developing organizational capability. Discuss the importance of developing the leadership skills of your team members, including practical ways to do so even with a limited training budget. Andy delves into the importance of one-on-one relationships and delivers proven insights on managing upward, dealing with peers, and developing stronger bonds both inside and outside your organization. Accelerate your ability to influence your organization, your projects, and your career to become the leader your team needs and demands. Walk away with practical tools to help you lead your team, including a template for formalizing a team charter, and a reproducible survey to solicit leadership feedback from bosses, peers, stakeholders, and team members. andy Kaufman helps people around the world become better leaders so they can more reliably deliver results while having a life. He is an international speaker and executive coach, and president of the Institute for Leadership Excellence & Development Inc. Andy is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and is the author of Navigating the Winds of Change: Staying on Course in Business & in Life, How to Organize Your Inbox & Get Rid of E-Mail Clutter, and Shining the Light on The Secret. alan shalloway is the founder and CEO of Net Objectives. With more than thirty-five years of experience, Alan is an industry thought leader, trainer, and coach in the areas of lean software development, the lean-agile connection, Scrum, agile architecture and using design patterns in agile environments. He is a popular speaker at prestigious conferences worldwide. Alan is the primary author of Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design and is currently writing a book on Lean Anti-Patterns. principles and practices of Lean-agile development FULL DAY MB Alan Shalloway, Net Objectives As the popularity of agile development spreads, more and more companies are discovering that simply breaking down projects into small iterations is not sufficient. Agile methods require changes in management, analysis, architecture, design, testing, and quality assurance, as well as project management. Given the substantial adjustments required, where can a team or enterprise look for guidance in its transition? Learning the required skill sets individually is fraught with problems—analysis, design, code, and test are not independent; they must be integrated. Join Alan Shalloway as he describes the landscape of skills that a development team needs to become effective agile developers. He discusses a set of principles and practices that integrate the guidance provided by lean, agile methods, design patterns, and more. In particular, Alan details how agile analysis and design patterns support agile methods, and how core “lean” principles support all agile methods, including design and test-driven development. essential software Requirements FULL DAY Mc Lee Copeland, Software Quality Engineering You deal with software requirements all the time. Whether you are a developer in an agile environment, an analyst who gathers and documents requirements for plan-driven development, a software designer who studies requirements as the basis of your work, a tester who employs or often must discover requirements as the foundation of test cases, or a technical user who describes your needs to development, you need the right approaches and skills to develop and interpret software requirements. Join Lee Copeland to learn how to identify all the important stakeholders of a system and better ways to elicit and capture requirements in different settings: one-on-one interviews, meetings, brainstorming and Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, buddy checks, inspections, ambiguity reviews, and retrospectives. Discover ways to ferret out the big risks, unknowns, and unresolved conflicts that often doom projects from the start. With more than thirty years of experience as an information systems professional at commercial and nonprofit organizations, Lee copeland has worked in applications development, software testing, and software process improvement. Lee has developed and taught numerous training courses on software development and testing issues and is a well-known speaker with Software Quality Engineering. The author of the popular reference book, A Practitioner’s Guide to Software Test Design, Lee presents at software conferences around the world. He is a frequent contributor to StickyMinds.com and managing technical editor for Better Software magazine. software security fundamentals FULL DAY Md Paco Hope, Cigital The key to proactive, effective computer system security is getting a risk management handle on the problem of security inside the software. Created by the experts who literally wrote the book on software security, this interactive session encompasses the software security awareness and best practices you need to achieve a secure and trustworthy environment. Everyone involved in software development requires baseline knowledge of software security problems and risks, along with an overall understanding of approaches for producing secure software. Join Paco Hope in this interactive session as he defines the software security problem and then describes a set of software security principles, touch points, and key concepts that can be integrated into any software development lifecycle. Paco describes how and why software is exploited and presents an overview of architectural risk analysis, security testing, and advanced tools for code review. Learn why software security is everyone’s job, and take back an overview of your next steps for adopting a comprehensive software security program. A managing consultant at Cigital, paco hope has more than twelve years of experience in software and operating system security with areas of expertise in software security policy, code analysis, host security, and PKI. Paco has worked significantly with embedded systems in the gaming and mobile communications industries, and has also served as a subject matter expert on issues of network security standards in the financial industry. Prior to joining Cigital, he served as director of product development for Tovaris, Inc. and head systems administrator in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Paco is co-author of Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security. Leading change through collaboration FULL DAY Me Pollyanna Pixton, Accelinnova; Todd Little, Landmark Graphics Corporation Leaders today are faced with an incredible challenge—delivering the right results to changing marketplaces, doing more with limited resources, improving processes to reduce costs, opening new markets, and keeping the company from falling into chaos. Amazingly though, the solutions to many challenges are already held within your organization and team. How do you unleash the talent within and foster the flow of innovative ideas? In this hands-on and highly interactive session, Pollyanna Pixton and Todd Little introduce the principles of collaboration and the tools you need to create collaborative cultures in your team and organization. Combining principles with practice, you will learn how to use a proven collaboration process to generate new ideas and embrace change, identify barriers to innovation and agility, and discover novel ways to implement solutions. Practice these techniques and tools to become a more collaborative leader while learning the process for leading upwards and outwards. An international collaborative leadership expert, pollyanna pixton developed the models for collaboration and collaborative leadership through her thirty-five years of working inside and consulting with corporations and organizations. She helps companies create workplaces where talent and innovation are unleashed—making them more productive, efficient, and profitable. Pollyanna is a founding partner of Accelinnova, president of Evolutionary Systems, director of the Institute for Collaborative Leadership, and co-author of forthcoming book, Stand Back and Deliver, A Leader’s Guide to the Agile Enterprise due out in November 2008. She cofounded the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN) and chaired the Agile 2006 Leadership Summits in London and Minneapolis. Contact her at ppixton@accelinnova.com. Todd Little is a senior development manager for Landmark Graphics Corporation. For more than twenty-five years he has been involved in almost all aspects of software development with a focus on commercial software applications. Todd is on the Board of Directors for the Agile Alliance, a co-author of the Declaration of Interdependence for Agile Project Leadership, and a founding member and past president of the Agile Project Leadership Network (APLN). Todd is a wellknown speaker and writer on software engineering topics including business value, uncertainty, complexity, and leadership. practical software Measurement: Objective information for decision Makers FULL DAY Mf Beth Layman, Layman and Layman Today’s fast-paced business environments require just-in-time decisions based on the best information available. What initiatives should we fund? Are we getting value from our efforts and investments? Are we getting better over time? Project teams are concerned with their ability to meet budgets and sche http://StickyMinds.com http://ASP.NET http://www.sqe.com/bscereg

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