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Tools for the New Millennium

Think Tank 75 minutes

Laura Hill

The internet has significantly changed the nature of the way today's companies do their business, and in doing so, has also impacted the way systems need to be created, deployed and maintained. Customers are demanding personalized information at a moment's notice; businesses are looking to outsourcing and partnering to reduce costs; and intense competition is demanding that whatever is developed, it better be done at "netspeed".

The tools market is valiantly trying to address these new requirements, but has it truly succeeded in supporting these notable shifts in the development paradigm?  In this think tank, we will examine the requirements for our brave new world and assess how well the tool vendors are meeting them. As a bonus, attendees are encouraged to take these ideas to their new startups and make a fortune!

Laura Hill (laura.hill@sun.com)

Sun Microsystems  Laura Hill is Director of Architecture for the Internet Application and Performance Tools group of Sun Microsystems. She has been involved with the object-oriented community for over 9 years focusing on reuse, emerging technologies, methodology and organization migration.

Topics

Benefits

Participants will leave the think tank with a better understanding of  how development in the new world of the web differs from traditional development both in terms of content, delivery mechanism and development process. It will help clarify their thinking on both how to utilize existing tools and what kinds of new tools they should be looking for.
 
 
Session: Think tank 75 minutes Level: intermediate
Audience: 
Participants should have participated in some type of development project and have utilised the web!		 Max open

Material

Flip charts, pens, post-its.

Delivery

 Groups will produce flip charts that will be posted in poster area

Format

Think tank format, small groups of 4-6.

Structure

 
0 - 5 Intro by session leader
5 - 10 Divide participants into groups based on stickers: red = tool vendors; green = consultants; blue = practitioners
10 - 20 Determine roles for people involved in the production of web systems
20 - 30 Determine main tasks for each role
30 - 55 Build matrix of roles vs tasks.  For each cell either: 
  • identify tool(s) which address role / task and rate effectiveness
  • mark as N/A
  • mark as an opportunity for new or better tools
55 - 75 Choose 1 - 2 of the "opportunities" and put together a flip chart paper on the functions that a tool in that space would need to support.  Posters will be displayed in poster area.
 

 
 
 
 

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