Software "Best" Practices: Tales of Adoption and Agility through Iteration
Steven Fraser (Cisco Research Center)
COMPUTER SCIENCE SEMINARDATE: 2010-11-30
TIME: 16:00:00 - 17:30:00
LOCATION: CSIT Common Room, Level 2, CSIT Building
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ABSTRACT:
Software "best" practices have been increasingly embraced through a mix of enthusiast passion and practical need. Agile practices no longer have the luxury of "choosing" small non-mission-critical projects with co-located teams as first suggested by early practitioners. This talk will outline a variety of "best" practices and processes to share observations on approaches and adoption.
Steven will also address "Collaboration Opportunities with Cisco"
Note that "afternoon tea" (inc. wine, beer and nibbles) will be provided.
BIO:
Steven Fraser is the Director of the Cisco Research
Center (http://www.cisco.com/research) in San Jose California with
responsibilities for developing university
research collaborations and facilitating technology transfer between
researchers and Cisco Business Units. Previously, Steven was a member of
Qualcomm's Learning Center in San Diego, California enabling technical
learning and development in software engineering best practices. Steven held
a variety of technology roles at Bell-Northern Research and Nortel including
Process Architect, Senior Manager (Global External Research), and Design
Process Advisor. In 1994, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
collaborating on the development of team-based domain analysis (software
reuse) techniques. Fraser was the XP2006 General Chair, the Corporate
Support Chair for OOPSLA'07 and OOPSLA'08, Tutorial Chair for both XP2008
and ICSE 2009 and co-Publicity Chair for XP2010. With a doctorate in
Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Fraser is a
member of the ACM, a senior member of the IEEE, and a frequent impresario of
conference panels and special events.
(For Steven's publications, see http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/indices/a-tree/f/Fraser:Steven.html)
