Dallas, TX

September 16, 2010

8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Luncheon Keynote

12:40 pm

AGILE SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
presented by Bruce Douglass, Chief Evangelist, IBM Rational

Most current software development projects both take too long and result in products with insufficient quality; clearly a new way of developing complex systems is necessary! Learn how Agile methods are a cohesive set of concepts, principles and practices to address what most consider the banes of software development: poor and changing requirements, short development cycles, long working hours, and burgeoning system complexity. Find out first-hand, when integrated with the best ideas in model-driven development using the UML and/or SysML, the results are a full agile development process that can reduce costs and improve quality through the focused application of the key principles. See where the 'Harmony' process, developed by the speaker, has been applied successfully in many different real-time and embedded markets such as telecommunications, medical, industrial automation, defense and aerospace. And discover exactly how it improves project results for embedded system development.

 

About the Speaker:  Bruce Powel Douglass, who has a doctorate in neurocybernetics, has over 30 years experience designing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He has designed and taught courses in agile methods, object-orientation, MDA, real-time systems, and safety-critical systems development, and is the author of over 5000 book pages from a number of technical books including Real-Time UML, Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems, Real-Time Design Patterns, Doing Hard Time, Real-Time Agility, and Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C. He is the Chief Evangelist at IBM Rational, where he is a thought leader in the systems space, consulting with and mentoring IBM customers all over the world, represents IBM at many different conferences, and authors tools and processes for the embedded real-time industry. He can be followed on Twitter @BruceDouglass. Papers and presentations are available at his Real-Time UML Yahoo technical group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RT-UML) and from his IBM page (www-01.ibm.com/software/rational/leadership/thought/brucedouglass.html).