Past Meetings:

Tuesday March 20

Enough of Process Lets do Practices

Meeting time: 8:00am - 10:00pm
Meeting location: Cardinal Solutions, Columbus OH
Meeting topic:   Enough of Process Lets do Practices

Agenda:  
8:00am - Registration and networking
8:30am - Presentation
9:45am - Q&A

Summary:
Today there are many methods, processes, techniques, etc. that attempt to help project teams conduct their work. While there are indeed some important differences between them, the commonalities are far greater – the end goal is for all of us to get working software.  Thus adopting complete processes does not make practical sense. Instead the focus should be on being able to mix and match ideas from many different sources inside or outside our own world and compose these ideas to get a better way to work. 

Over the years we have more and more come to realize that these separate ideas are well represented by practices.  Practices are first class citizens – process is just a composition of practices.  Practices are to software development teams what use cases are to software systems: they have a beginning and an end and they provide identifiable values to the stakeholders.  Practices come from individuals from different camps around the world, such as from the agile camp or the process improvement camp. 

A practice-centric view of software development as opposed to a process-centric view is the new paradigm shift.

About the Speaker:
David West, Managing Director Ivar Jacobson Consulting, Americas - David has worked in the software development industry for over 15 years holding a variety of posts ranging from developer, team leader and architect.  David is a published author in ORiley’s Head First Series with the book “Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design”.

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