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The fall and rise of a component development and reuse programme

Case study 75 minutes

Dominic Ellis

This case study examines the checkered history of a component reuse programme within a professional services firm. It charts the progress of the programme through initial ambitious failure to more recent moderate but sustained success. It charts the pit-falls of a component reuse programme from the perspective of those that have actually fallen into them. It also shows how progress and success can be sustained despite the many technical and organisational barriers to reuse which exist.

Dominic Ellis (dominic.ellis@ecsoft.co.uk)

ECsoft

Dom Ellis has 12 years experience in IT, of which 4 years have been with object-oriented application development. This experience has spanned programming, design, architecture and team leading. He has experience of a number of successful enterprise-class object-technology developments, mainly in the leisure and telecommunications sectors. Dom has been responsible for implementing and managing the component reuse programme described in the case study and for the development or componentisation of many of its constituent parts.

Topics

Describe the organisational and methodological frameworks which need to be put in place to make a success of component reuse.
Describes the dangers of more ambitious large-grained reuse at the horizontal framework level.
Describes the cost-benefit issues associated with small scale
Defines the appropriate scale and type of component for a cross-project reuse programme.
Describes the barriers which exist to reuse, how these can be overcome or circumnavigated.
Assesses what still needs to be done if component-based development is to become all-pervasive.

Benefits

Session: Case study 75 minutes Level: basic
Audience: Object Technology Analysts / Architects / Developers Max

Material

PowerPoint hand-outs for case study presentation session

Delivery

It is a case study.

Format

PowerPoint projection capability in an environment which will enable audience participation in an open discussion session at the end

(such as multiple flip-charts facing class-room or theatre-style seating arrangement).

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Session: Case study 75 minutes	Level: basic
Audience: Object Technology Analysts / Architects / Developers	Max