SPA Conference session: Building software that matters | |||
| One-line description: | collaborative exploration of best practices on delivering value for money in software projects | ||
| Session format: | Workshop (75 mins) [read about the different session types] | ||
| Abstract: | This will be a group workshop on ideas, practices, tools and principles that help us focus development effort on things that really matter and deliver value efficiently with software. Workshop topics will include: * eliminating waste in software development * providing focus in scope/specifications * providing visibility of business goals to developers and development progress to business * testing ideas and confirming that they work or don't work The introduction to the workshop will be based on a related workshop at AltNetUK 09 and the participants will then work in groups focusing on one of the topics. The objectives of the workshop are to exchange ideas and best practices, discuss existing patterns and identify new ones that help us focus software development on things that really matter. | ||
| Audience background: | ideally mid-to-advanced practitioners. beginners might find it useful to hear ideas but will probably not be able to fully participate. | ||
| Benefits of participating: | exchanging ideas with peers, learning new patterns and getting up-to-date on areas such as domain driven design, kanban, lean etc | ||
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| Process: | we'll start by briefly reviewing the mind-map of existing patterns and ideas discovered in the previous run of the workshop, then extending the mind-map with new ideas and patterns - this will be collected on a whiteboard or wall with whiteboard material. Once we have a good cluster of ideas, we'll split into several groups (ideally 3-4 people in a group) and assign parts of the mind-map (eg visibility of business goals, core domain) to individual groups for further exploration. people in the groups will then draw on their experience to discuss which tools, techniques and ideas that support the part of the mind-map assigned to them and produce lists of such items. At the end, we'll collate all these lists into a larger mind-map with additional notes. | ||
| Detailed timetable: | 00:00-10:00 - Introduction, brief update on the altnetuk workshop and the results of that. 10:00-25:00 - group brainstorm, gathering topics for discussion and workshop ideas 25:00-60:00 - workshop, participants working in groups discussing and focusing on a particular area 50-00-75:00 - each group presents results | ||
| Outputs: | the primary output will be a mind-map of ideas, practices and tools that help us build better software. lists of additional notes and further details on mind-map areas discussed by individual groups will also be posted as wiki pages shortly after the conference. I will consolidate the results into a blog post. | ||
| History: | altnetUK 09 http://gojko.net/2009/08/03/building-software-that-matters/ | ||
| Presenters | |||
| 1. Gojko Adzic Neuri Limited |
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