Java Architecture Management or how to avoid the structural erosion of your code base

Thu, Feb 12 6:00pm

Presentation Overview:

Golden Rules for Managing your Architecture

It is always beneficial for a project to define a clear software architecture. But how can you fight growing deviations between the planned architecture and the physical code base? How can you avoid expensive redesigns and refactoring phases? How can you achieve an outstanding technical quality of your code base? The session explains the basic concepts of architecture management for Java projects.

Participants will learn:

How to define a small set of rules and guidelines to achieve an outstanding technical quality for their Java projects
How to define a large scale architecture for their systems
How to implement automatic checks for their architecture rules and quality guidelines

Presenter Bio:

Alexander von Zitzewitz

is founder and managing director of hello2morrow and CEO of the US subsidiary. He has more than 20 years of project and management experience. In 1993 he founded ootec - a company focused on project services around object oriented software technology. This company was sold to the French Valtech group in March 2000 and served customers like Siemens, BMW, Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl and other well known names in German industry. From 2003 to early 2005 he was working as Director of Central Europe for the French company Xcalia S.A. Since the summer of 2008 he is living in Massachusetts. His areas of expertise are object oriented system design and large scale system architecture. Alexander has a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.

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Downloaded presentation materiel at: http://www.hello2morrow.com/ (Required registration).
Much of what was discussed was not new. But, it was consistent with what I hear at "Best Practices", Share, etc. and much more interesting and entertaining. As one who lacks the clout to make middle management "see the light", it's encouraging to hear it again as we soldier on.