A handful short talks, reflections on agile development, a weather report and forecast. The speakers will share their experiences from product line development, complexity management, continuous processes, and psychology and team effects. This is your think tank on what your projects could become. Complement your knowledge with many insights presented in comprehensive format, and use your opportunity for discussion.
Dave West is an independent consultant and mentor in the areas of Design, Agility, and Business-IT integration. His forty year professional career includes programming to Chief Information Officer as well as being a Professor at three universities. He has written or presented over fifty papers and is the author of Object Thinking. He has four books that will appear in late 2013 and early 2014, Object Thinking: Rethought, Design Thinking, The Story (essential for IT and Business Success), and Ars Magna.
Dietmar Schütz is a Senior Software Architect and Key Principal Expert for Dedicated Systems at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, Germany. Dietmar’s experience covers all areas of software architecture development, addressed by assessments, improvements and education for the different sectors and business units. These activities and experience especially incorporate the integration of architecture work into organizations and processes of projects with high business relevance.
Klaus Marquardt is platform program manager at Dräger Medical in Lübeck, Germany.
Klaus's software development experience covers life-support systems, international projects, frameworks and product lines, and agility in regulated environments. He has documented a series of diagnoses and therapies on software systems that stem from his interest in the mutual influences of technology, humans, processes, and organization - these can be found at
http://www.sustainable-architecture.eu. Furthermore, he enjoys writing patterns, running conference sessions that explore new ground, and living and working beyond software.