January 31 2007

Topic Summary: Impressions from Dr. Dobb's Architecture and Design World

Please join Ray Trask when he presents his Impressions from Dr Dobb’s Architecture and Design World held in Chicago on July 2006.

Join us to learn about:

What Scott Ambler said about:

Big Requirements Up Front (BRUF);
How there’s more to a modeling than pictures. But beware of…;
Who does what, when;
Why software estimation and old fashioned change management is evil;
Big projects and off-shoring;

Better use case diagrams from the co-founder of modeling: Larry Constantine;

Effective Architecture Reviews from Kevin Bodie;
Writing Effective Use Cases from IBM’s Terry Quantrani ;
Paper Prototyping for GUI development from Thoughtwork’s Jeff Patten;

Robert C. Martin’s observations on:

The 7 code smells of code gone bad;
3 causes of code rot;
5 agile design principles;
3 iterative steps when doing agile design.

About the Speaker:

Ray Trask currently works as the out-of-region ordering Architect for Qwest Communications. His career spans over 20 years as a developer, analyst, process consultant and architect in applications that involve real-time programming, 3d graphics, web-front-ends and databases. The software organizations he has worked in have been sized in the ones, tens, hundreds and thousands of people. His has one rule he has lived by his entire career: “There are no rules, only solutions!”

Meeting Info:

The meeting will be held on Wed. January 31stth at OCLC in the Smith Private Dining Room from 11:30am to 1pm. Please mark this date on your calendars. You can bring your lunch or purchase lunch in the OCLC cafeteria. To register for this meeting, send email to lfarrenkopf@earthlink.net.

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