Welcome to JavaPolis 2007!
Topics
Delivering on time, within budget... with no bugs
Software @ REAL
What is a Software Factory?
A Predictable AND Agile Development Model
RISE, The Real Software Factory
Why RISE?
Costs of Defects in Software Development
Problems with the Waterfall
The Software Development Lifecycle
How to automate?
Dynamic Resource Allocation
RISE, The Real Software Factory
Evolution vs. Revolution in Product Development
How to move to Modules rather than Applications
Vision of Reusability
The term software factory is controversial. But think about it... No industry has experienced more innovation than the factory industries. On the contrary, the key to meeting demand is to stop wasting talents of skilled developers on rote and menial tasks...
Change the way you look at products, solutions and projects. Step away from ideas such as Java and other domain specific languages.
When we start working with small and specific skeletons and re-usable components that build a product or solution, we can apply the best patterns of industrialized manufacturing to software development. Just as in car manufacturing, we will be able to scale to much higher levels of productivity and a superior level of application assembly, even when building new or horizontal solutions.
Until September 2006, Segers managed the Belgian division of the software concern Microsoft. Earlier in his career, he also worked for Oracle, Lotus and IBM. As from June 2007, Bruno Segers is Real's COO in Belgium and the Netherlands. He also advises Ashley Abdo, CEO of Real, on the local and international growth strategy of the company.
