The presenters will include Net Objectives CEO Alan Shalloway, President Alan Chedalawada, and Senior Consultant Scott Bain

In today's fast-paced world of software development many new and exciting development methodologies/processes have emerged, including Scrum, Feature-Driven Development (FDD), Crystal and many others. However, regardless of the process involved, business analysts can help software development teams create better software in a shorter timeframe. The lean principles that form the basis of agile software development methods can be utilized even in a waterfall development process. This talk will focus on how those principles can be applied regardless of the development process being used.

The Agile Manifesto and the Agile movement have ushered in a new way of developing software. Today, many practitioners are discovering limitations to the usual approach to Agile which focuses mostly on local teams and projects. This limited focus developed as a reaction to heavy processes and teams' inability to make their own commitments. This resulted in many leading Agile practitioners to advocate an approach to "let the team figure it out," going so far as to state that the beauty of the Agile approach (such as Scrum) is that it avoids any kind of prescriptive formula.

Many medium to large enterprises have Enterprise Data. This valuable asset needs to be managed just like buildings, inventory, trucks and people. As development organizations attempt to be more agile in their practices by adopting XP, Scrum or other agile methodologies, managing this Enterprise data has become more complex. The owners of the data often have concerns that the development teams want to ignore in their quest for speed. The conflict that results can severely impact the speed of delivery, quality and business value that the agile development team is attempting to deliver.

This 3-day course goes beyond merely teaching several design patterns. It also teaches the principles and strategies that make design patterns good designs. This enables students to use these advanced design techniques in their problems whether design patterns are even present. After teaching several patterns and the principles underneath them, the course goes further by showing how patterns can work together to create robust, flexible, maintainable designs.

This 3-day course goes beyond merely teaching several design patterns. It also teaches the principles and strategies that make design patterns good designs. This enables students to use these advanced design techniques in their problems whether design patterns are even present. After teaching several patterns and the principles underneath them, the course goes further by showing how patterns can work together to create robust, flexible, maintainable designs.

This 3-day course goes beyond merely teaching several design patterns. It also teaches the principles and strategies that make design patterns good designs. This enables students to use these advanced design techniques in their problems whether design patterns are even present. After teaching several patterns and the principles underneath them, the course goes further by showing how patterns can work together to create robust, flexible, maintainable designs.

This two-day course continues the exploration of design patterns begun in our Design Patterns Explained course. This course presents detailed case studies and additional patterns.

This two-day course continues the exploration of design patterns begun in our Design Patterns Explained course. This course presents detailed case studies and additional patterns.