Speaker

Nicolai Josuttis
Solutions in Time

Nicolai Josuttis (http://www.josuttis.com) is an independent systems architect, author, and consultant.
He is responsible for the successful design and implementation of mid-sized and large software systems for the telecommunication, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries.
He is well known for his books about object-oriented software development and C++, which are translated into several different languages.
He is a partner at System Bauhaus, a German group of recognized object-oriented system development experts.

Presentation: "Amplifying the Agile Principles"

Monday 16:15 - 17:00, Private Room

Agile development is often considered to work for small teams only. However, there are more than enough projects that are large in some sense and it is not always possible to limit the number of developers to a small team size. So the question arises, how to preserve the values of agile principles in the context of large projects.

In this talk we examine the agile principles according to their effects on large projects. For example, we discuss what a principle such as "self-organizing teams" means when it is applied to a team of more than 100 developers. The examination is based on our own experience applying agile principles to large teams up to 200 members.

Amplifying the Agile Principles - (slides)

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Tutorial: "The Extreme Hour"
Thursday 13:00 - 16:00
The Extreme Hour is "the smallest project in the world", which lasts an extended hour, where people experience most of the aspects of extreme programming (XP).

Each particpant occupies one of the typical project team roles, like QA, customer, developer, tracker, or coach. XP practices, like the development of user stories, the planning game, as well as aggreeing on a commitment schedule are directly practised during the session. The development happens of course in pairs, by creating the simplest design possible. A later refactoring is necessary, if this isn't possible at the time of creation. The extreme hour requires no actual programming, but still a lot of fun!

Tutorial: "EJB role play"
Thursday 09:00 - 12:00
The EJB roleplay is an unusual way to understand the lifecycle of EJBs. By interacting with others you "experience" and "feel" the way things are organized. It's also an interesting way to teach and learn complex behavior of distributed systems.

The format will be lectures with slides and active role-playing. See http://www.josuttis.com//talks/ejb12.jpg for an impression of the playing.

Attendees may have any range of knowledge about EJB concepts. That is they could be novices as well as experts. The goal is to bring these people together to get a shared understanding. Anyway, some basic programming knowledge should of course exist.