Games Software Architects Play by Philippe Kruchten
December 14, 2011 15.00 - 18:00 hrs Location: Regardz Olympisch Stadion Amsterdam Click here for the route description
Do you want to learn how the thinking of a software architect impacts the success or failure of a project?
On Wednesday the 14th of December, Philippe Kruchten inventor of the 4+1 view, former director of Rational Unified Process and professor of software engineering is visiting Xebia for a sort presentation on biases, fallacies and political games of architects found in real life software projects over the last 30 years that can help you.
Presentation - Games software architects play. Over the years we've identified some of the strategies and tactics software architects use during the design of new, bold, large software-intensive systems: divide-and-conquer, brainstorming, reuse, etc.. But we also observed some strange tactics, biases, reasoning fallacies that creep in and pervert somehow the design process. They go by simple, funny or fancy names: anchoring, red herring, elephant in the room, post hoc ergo propter hoc, non sequitur, argumentum verbosium, etc. This talk will do a little illustrated catalogue of these games, with examples, and how they sometimes combine onto subtle but elaborate political plots. In other words, this talk is about cognitive biases and how they affect software development.
Agenda 15:00 – 15:30 Registration 15:30 – 17:00 Games software architects play – Philippe Kruchten 17:00 – 18:00 Drinks and snacks
Philippe Kruchten is professor of software engineering, in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, where he holds an NSERC Chair in Design Engineering. He teaches software engineering, more specifically software project management, and two interdisciplinary project courses on innovation, entrepreneurship, system engineering. Philippe does research in software architecture and software processes, with a handful of graduate students, and many collaborators around the world. He is known as Director of Process Development (RUP) at Rational Software, and developer of the 4+1 view model.
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