ECOOP / Tutorial 13

Our Favorite Process Tips

Topic	Software engineering, iterative and agile methods
Goal	Know the high-impact tips and techniques that I and my colleagues in consulting have collected over the years to help development projects succeed.
Style	presentation + discussion

Abstract

A summary of the many process tips—from timeboxed iterations to walls of wonder—that I coach when working with a team for an iteration, which may be considered teaching a “development case” in Unified Process terms. There will be time for members in teams to nominate their favorite tips, so we all share and learn. These tips will be useful not only to developers and project managers, but to educators of software engineering.

Topics include:

your contributions
timeboxed iterations
planning an iteration
Scrum practices; the Scrum meeting and questions; extra questions and secondary meetings
tracking iteration tasks and progress
continuous integration
continuous re-configuration for J2EE applications
tools and physical environment for agile visual modeling
walls of wonder
creativity and group collaboration or facilitation tips: from brain writing to affinity clustering
test first development; unit testing samples; acceptance/system testing samples
high-value UP workproducts to create on most projects
writing a useful software architecture document
the per-iteration demo
“essential” and agile UI design modeling
simple, collaborative web-based project tools
useful UML: drawing and diagramming tips
Q&A

Presenter Profile

Craig Larman

Programming since 1977, coaching and consulting since 1985.
Craig Larman is the author of Applying UML and Patterns—An Introduction to OOA/D and the Unified Process, the best-selling text on OOA/D, iterative methods, and the UML. He is currently writing Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide. He is known throughout the international software community as an expert and coach in helping people adopt agile and iterative methods, modeling, and object technologies. He remains actively involved in software development, searching for high-impact and sustainable techniques that make a difference.
Craig serves as Chief Scientist for Valtech, an international consulting company with offices in 8 countries.

Details

Presenter(s)	Craig Larman, www.craiglarman.com, Valtech
Date Duration	Monday, PM, July 21 half day
Level	Novice-Intermediate in software engineering and project management
Targeted Audience	Developers, project managers, educators of software engineering and project management