[TriLUG] invitation to IEEE Computer Society Meeting 2/16 @ NCSU

[Jim Ray]

What: Panel Discussion on "Practical Software Development"

 

When: 6:00 Pizza, 6:30-8:00 Meeting , February 16.

 

Where: Engineering Building I Room 1005 Centennial Campus NCSU

Map here - http://www.ncsu.edu/campus_map/centennial.htm

 

Why: Three expert software developers will reflect over their collective

experiences to distill what are the most important contributors to a 

successful software project AND what are some of the horrible mistakes 

to avoid. Each expert will have an opening 10 minute presentation on
these

themes and then the modirator will open the floor for questions from

the audience.

 

Who: Karen Smiley, Andy Hunt, and Bob Galen will be your expert panel.

John Baker will moderate.

 

Karen Smiley is a Principal Scientist in the Industrial Software Systems


program at ABB Corporate Research in Raleigh. Her 25+ years of
innovative 

technology leadership include developing and managing real-time,
analytical, 

and database systems through the full software-hardware system
lifecycle, 

for diverse industries, in dotcoms as well as commercial enterprises of 

various sizes. At ABB she guides improvement initiatives at business
units 

worldwide through coaching, teaching, and empirical research on software


processes, architecture, and technologies. Ms. Smiley currently leads
the 

global requirements engineering research team at ABB, as well as a
research 

project on global software development (GSD) collaboration. She is 

currently collaborating with the SEI on developing the CMMI-Six Sigma
Body 

of Knowledge, and investigating how to effectively combine agile methods


with software architecture. She is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of


ACM, Scrum Alliance, Agile Alliance, and PMI. She blogs at 

http:/blog.agileteams.com and tweets as @agile_teams.

 

Andy started in the do-it-yourself days of CP/M and the S100 bus, of 

Heathkits and Radio Electronics. Andy wrote his first real program, a 

combination text editor and database manager, for an Ohio Scientific 

Challenger 4P. It was a great era for tinkering. Andy started hacking in


6502 assembler, modifying operating systems, and wrote his first 

commercial program (a Manufacturing Resources Planning system) in 1981. 

He taught himself Unix and C, and began to design and architect larger, 

more connected systems.

Working at large companies, Andy kept an ear on Usenet, and started his 

early email habit via a direct bang-path to ihnp4. Next he settled into 

electronic pre-press and computer graphics, and worked on that wondrous 

eye-candy that was Silicon Graphics machines. By now a firm command of 

several flavors of Unix, from BSD to System V, led Andy to try
consulting. 

His knack for stirring things up really began to come in handy, and it
soon 

became obvious that many of his clients each suffered similar 

problems--problems that Andy had already seen and fixed before.

Andy joined up with Dave Thomas and they wrote the seminal software 

development book, The Pragmatic Programmer, followed a year later by the


original Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide, which 

introduced the Western world to this new language from Japan. Together 

they founded The Pragmatic Programmers and have became increasingly well


known, as founders of the agile movement and authors of the Agile
Manifesto, 

as well as proponents of Ruby and more flexible programming paradigms, 

and their Pragmatic Bookshelf publishing business, helping keep
developers 

at the top of their game.

Andy is a founder of the Pragmatic Programmers, founder of the Agile 

Alliance and author of the Agile Manifesto, and author of seven books. 

He is an active musician and woodworker, and continues looking for new 

areas where he can stir things up.

 

Bob Galen is an Agile Methodologist, Practitioner & Coach based in 

Cary, NC. In this role he helps guide companies and teams in their 

pragmatic adoption and organizational shift towards Scrum and other 

Agile methods and practices. He is currently the Director of R&D and 

Agile Coach at iContact, an email marketing SaaS provider. He is also 

President and Principal Consultant for RGCG, LLC. Bob has held director,


manager and contributor level positions in both software development and


quality assurance organizations.  He has over 25 years of experience 

working in a wide variety of domains at companies including Bayer, 

Bowe-Bell & Howell Mail Processing, ChannelAdvisor, EMC, Lucent, 

Unisys and Thomson.

Bob regularly speaks at international conferences and professional 

groups on topics related to software development, project management, 

software testing and team leadership. He is a Certified Scrum Master 

Practicing (CSP) since 2004, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), and 

an active member of the Agile Alliance & Scrum Alliance. In 2009 he 

published the book Scrum Product Ownership - Balancing Value from the 

Inside Out. The book addresses the gap in guidance towards effective 

agile product management. You can find the book here - 

http://tinyurl.com/cv8bsy