OT2004
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Invited Speaker
Ivar Jacobson
OO Pioneer and one of the originators of UML
Invited Speaker
Martin Fowler
Chief Scientist, ThoughtWorks
Invited Speaker
Joshua Bloch
Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Session Types

CS Case Study
GB Goldfish Bowl
SI Simulation
TT Think Tank
TU Tutorial
WG Working Group
WS Workshop
XX Other Session Type
 

Sunday 28 March

13:00
16:00

WG1
Seeing the forest and the trees
Martine Devos Avaya Inc., Diane Gibson
WG3
Getting the message?
David Bell MFESD
WG4
Xbots
Duncan Pierce Amarinda

16:00
19:00

TU11
UML 1++
Martin Fowler ThoughtWorks

19:30
22:00

Reception with buffet sponsored by ThoughtWorks

Monday March

08:00
09:00

Breakfast
09:00
09:30
Opening plenary
09:45
11:00
TU1
Getting to Grips with Architecture Using Viewpoints and Perspectives
Nick Rozanski French Thornton, Eoin Woods Artechra Limited
WS1
Delegation in Java
Erik Groeneveld Seek You Too B.V., Willem van den Ende CQ2
WS2
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Nigel Gilkes , Alan Cameron Wills Microsoft
WS13
Personality Traits: Do I have any?
Jane Chandler University of Portsmouth
TU10
Mock Objects: Driving top-down development.
Joe Walnes ThoughtWorks, Nat Pryce B13media Ltd.
11:30
12:45
CS1
The Compute Backbone at JPMorgan
Peter Sumner JPMorgan
TU9
The Application Reference Model
John Cheesman 7irene, Greg Hodgkinson 7irene
12:45 
13:45
Lunch
13:45
15:00
WS3
How I learned to stop worrying and love metrics
KeithBraithwaite Penrillian, IvanMoore ThoughtWorks
WS4
Generic Mechanisms in Software Engineering
Bruce Anderson IBM Component Technology Services, Simon Davies Microsoft
WS5
Systems archetypes -- diagnosing system issues and designing high-leverage interventions
Martine Devos Avaya Inc., Diane Gibson
CS3
Data distribution in a diverse community
Ian Cornwell Mott MacDonald
WS7
Mind the culture gap!
Alia Cooper Tesco, Helen Sharp The Open University
15:30 
16:45
17:15 
18:15

Home Groups

18:15
19:15
PL1
An Evening with Ivar Jacobson
Ivar Jacobson , Bruce Anderson IBM Component Technology Services, John Daniels Syntropy Limited
19:15
20:45
Dinner
20:45 
21:45
XX2
DynaBoF
John Daniels Syntropy Limited
21:45 
22:45
Diversions BOF sessions

Tuesday 30 March

08:00
09:00

Breakfast

09:00 
10:00

PL2
Software Design in the Twenty-first Century
Martin Fowler ThoughtWorks

10:15 
11:30
WS8
What went wrong? Error handling in a distributed environment
Eoin Woods Artechra Limited, Andy Longshaw Blue Skyline
WS9
Domain Specific Languages - issues and exercises
Alan Cameron Wills Microsoft
WS10
Belbin Team Roles in Software Development
Duncan McGregor , Richard Care Octave Associates
TU3
Test Driven Development
Ivan Moore ThoughtWorks, Duncan Pierce Amarinda
TU4
Getting Your Story Straight
Rachel Davies Agile Experience
12:00 
13:15
CS2
Dispersed Development
John Daniels Syntropy Limited, Paul Dyson e2x limited
TU5
Understanding Project Dynamics
Jens Coldewey Coldewey Consulting
13:15 
14:45
Lunch and BOF sessions
14:45 
16:00
WS11
A Picture Paints a Thousand Words - Or does it?
MattStephenson Royal & SunAlliance, StephenHutchinson Royal and Sunalliance
WS12
Towards EJB 3.0
Scott Crawford Independent
SI1
Tracer Bullets Reloaded
Paul Simmons Rochester Software House, Rob Westgeest Agidem
WS18
How to Fail at XP
SteveFreeman Thoughtworks, KeithBraithwaite Penrillian
WS19
Soft Systems Methodology - Learning an Approach to Requirements
Debbie Lawther Dover Harbour Board, Rob Day RDA Limited
16:30 
17:45
GB1
MDA - this year's silver bullet?
Dan Haywood Haywood Associates Ltd.
TT1
Radical Computing
PeterMarks Digita
18:15 
19:15
Home Groups
19:15
20:45
Dinner
20:45 
21:45
Diversions BOF sessions
21:45 
22:45
Diversions

Wednesday 31 March

08:00
09:00
Breakfast
09:00 
10:00
PL3
How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters
Joshua Bloch Sun Microsystems
10:15 
11:30
WS15
Discovery Made Easy
Bernard Horan Sun Microsystems, Laura Hill Sun Microsystems
TT2
Sustainable Architecture
Klaus Marquardt Dräger Medical AG
WS6
The Software Engineer's View of Content Management
Andreas Rüping sd&m AG, Hamburg, Germany
WS16
The Software Value Chain
David Harvey Sibelius Software, Peter Marks Digita
TU7
Objects on ACID
Nicholas Simons Metamaxim Ltd.
12:00
13:15
XX1
Famous for Fifteen Minutes
Andy Carmichael Ivis Technologies LLC
TU8
Taming the Tiger: Using Java 1.5
Benedict Heal Fastnloose Ltd
13:15 
14:15
Lunch
14:15 
15:30
TT3
Component co-ordination in models
Richard Mitchell InferData Corporation, Rob James HSBC
XX1
Famous for Fifteen Minutes
Andy Carmichael Ivis Technologies LLC
WS14
Blogs and RSS - worth your time?
James Robertson Cincom Systems, Inc.
CS4
The difficulties we encountered in developing an object model to support requirements development.
Steve Wade University of Huddersfield
15:30 
16:00
Closing Plenary