Regional Architect Forum with Ivar Jacobson on Thursday, 25 September 2008

Date: Thursday, 25 September 2008

Time: 09:00 - 12:15, Registration from 08:30

Place: Swissôtel Zürich, Am Marktplatz Oerlikon, Schulstrasse 44, 8050 Zürich (Map)

Language: English
 

We have the great pleasure to invite you to the next Regional Architect Forum with Ivar Jacobson, as the “father of RUP” probably one of the most influential people in the field of software development processes. He will share his extensive practice-based experience with us.
Roger Bösch will then take you through the Microsoft development process and Ronnie Saurenmann will introduce you to Cloud Computing a possible major and radical change in our industry.

Getting Good Software, Quickly and at Low Cost (Ivar Jacobson)
Getting good software quickly at low cost is what we all are striving for. The approaches to achieve this goal change over time. Some ideas have become main-stream and pushing them is like throwing in open doors. Use cases, architecture, components, iterations are great, but we also need to be agile. BUT, how do we integrate all these ideas into something useful that can help organizations to deliver good software, quickly and at low cost? The answer is Practices!

Software development process @ Microsoft’s Developer Division (Roger Boesch)
As one of the largest software development company worldwide, processes are also a very important topic at Microsoft itself. In the Developer Division, Microsoft uses a feature driven approach, where feature crews driving more then 1000 features from planning to the next release. Hear how we’ve implemented it on TFS, tracking progress and keep quality high in our own product: Visual Studio Team System.

Cloud Computing (Ronnie Saurenmann)
The coming shift to cloud computing could be a major change in our industry. As its name suggests, this kind of platform lets developers write applications that run in the cloud, or use services provided from the cloud, or both without requiring your own IT infrastructure. Microsoft is now starting to offer services in the cloud like Sql Server Data Services and Silverlight Streaming. The goal of this session is to explain what Cloud computing is, the impact that can have on how you build applications and demonstrate the current Microsoft offering in this space.

Agenda:

08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:15 Getting Good Software, Quickly and at Low Cost, Ivar Jacobson
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:15 Software development process @ Microsoft’s Developer Division,  Roger Boesch
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15 Cloud Computing, Ronnie Saurenmann
12:15 - 13:15 Networking and Lunch

Registration page: https://www.microsoft.com/switzerland/msdn/de/events/eventdetail.mspx?EventID=1032382612