Outspoken software engineering evangelist, Agile Manifesto co-author, speaker, and author, Jon's experience is wide-ranging across varied problem domains and technology platforms. From jet engine R&D (he's an aerospace engineer, after all) to real-time flight simulator design and development, from TogetherSoft's and OptimalJ's commercially successful modeling tools to building IBM's Manufacturing Execution System software - Jon has seen and done a lot in his 20 years. Peter Coad recruited Jon in September 1999, to help launch TogetherSoft. Jon was a driving force behind the success of the company and its products prior to its sale to Borland. Jon's a nut when it comes to modeling effectively (focused on the business), building and architecting consistently, and doing it in an agile manner to deliver results. If a team ignores these best practices, it invites the peril of building up Technical Debt, as he likes to refer to it. Jon is a speaker that engages the audience and has fun doing it.
I bet you thought agile development was supposed to be easier than a
traditional, prescriptive process! That I would wax evangelical that agile
development is the answer to everything, and it simplifies your life. Yeah,
just like UML and model-driven architecture and XML and SOA and Web services
are silver bullets. Uh-huh, r-i-g-h-t.
If you aren't familiar with agile development, you can check out our
manifesto here: www.agilemanifesto.org/. You can also learn more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development. The difficulty with
"agile development" is that it is "in the eye of the beholder." That is, even
a highly regulated, constrained application can be conducted in an agile
manner. That manner will be radically different from the way a five-member
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Much of enterprise software is of woeful quality, many new projects often
take a waterfall approach, and teams attempting to deliver enterprise apps
often do so inconsistently. Come listen to one of the authors of the Agile
Manifesto paint a picture of 3 ways to look at software development to
achieve success. See how easy it is to build flexible and repeatable
architectural approaches t... (more)
Outspoken software engineering evangelist, Agile Manifesto co-author, speaker, and author, Jon's experience is wide-ranging across varied problem domains and technology platforms. From jet engine R&D (he's an aerospace engineer, after all) to real-time flight simulator design and development, from TogetherSoft's and OptimalJ's commercially successful modeling tools to building IBM's Manufacturing Execution System software - Jon has seen and done a lot in his 20 years. Peter Coad recruited Jon in September 1999, to help launch TogetherSoft. Jon was a driving force behind the success of the company and its products prior to its sale to Borland. Jon's a nut when it comes to modeling effectively (focused on the business), building and architecting consistently, and doing it in an agile manner to deliver results. If a team ignores these best practices, it invites the peril of building up Technical Debt, as he likes to refer to it. Jon is a speaker that engages the audience and has fun doing it.
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