Plenary Speakers
Ivar Jacobson
Creator of ‘Use cases’ and co-founder of the Object oriented design movement, UML and the Rationale Unified Process.
Abstract: Enough of Requirements Processes - Let’s Do Practices
The world of software development is constantly changing and evolving. New ideas arise all the time and existing ideas go in and out of fashion. Software development and requirements analysis processes find it very hard to keep up with this rapid rate of change, especially as they find themselves quickly going of fashion or becoming bloated as they bolt on more and more information. Teams find themselves struggling as they try to mix-and-match practices from various sources into a coherent way-of-working or work out where to start their improvements.
A new approach to capturing and sharing experience is required, one where:
- Practices are First Class Citizens,
- Practices can be made smart to truly help the developers in their work,
- Practices can be used individually or in a multitude of combinations
- Process is just a composition of Practices, and
- Teams compose the process they need by selecting just the practice that they want to use
To enable this a number of innovations are required: innovations related to the way that practices are collected, presented and applied. We will introduce the new paradigm and its support by EssWork which is an environment for working with practices. In doing so we will demonstrate how the Essential Unified Process is composed as a collection of eight separate practices.
This talk promises to explore the outer limits of modern requirements engineering and software development practices whether they come from the software engineering camp or from the social engineering (agile) camp.
Presenter Biography
Dr. Ivar Jacobson, co-founder of Jaczone AB, is one of the great thought-leaders in the software world where he has made several seminal contributions. He is one of the fathers of components and component architecture, use cases, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process.
Ivar Jacobson is the principal author of five influential and best-selling books. He has written more than 50 papers and he is a regular keynote speaker at large conferences around the world and acts as an advisor to large corporations world-wide.
http://www.ivarjacobson.com/home.cfm
Anthony Finkelstein (University College London)
One of the founders of Requirements Engineering discipline who organised the 1st IEEE Symposium on Requirements engineering in 1993. He is a world leading authority on many aspects of RE.
Abstract: Modelling-in-the-large
Many of the challenges of 21st Century Science demand the construction of very large computational models. The nature and scale of these models are very different from those hitherto encountered by physical and life scientists. Software engineering and in particular requirements engineering has however already addressed many of the problems and we possess techniques that might contribute to the solution of some of science's grand challenge problems. In this talk I consider how we might help scientists and what some of the remaining difficulties are. I will examine in some detail a particular example from systems biology: modelling the liver.
Presenter Biography
Anthony Finkelstein is Professor of Software Systems Engineering at University College London and Head of the Department of Computer Science. He established the Software Systems Engineering Group and has also been involved in the establishment of the UCL Centre for Systems Engineering and UCLGrid.
Anthony’s research in the area of software systems engineering has contributed to software specification methods, software development processes, tool and environment support for software development. Recent work has included significant contributions to work on tools for managing model integrity in software development, specification from multiple viewpoints and requirements engineering. His current interests are in the area of managing distributed information in software development. If you want to know more see his research overview. He has published more than 150 papers in these areas and held research grants totalling in excess of £8m.
Anthony is actively involved in the Software Engineering research and practitioner communities. This involvement has included serving on many Programme Committees (more than 70) and acting as Programme Chair, Steering Committee Chair and General Chair for several major conferences and serving on the Editorial Boards of Journals including ACM TOSEM and Automated Software Engineering, (former editor-in-chief). He has given a number of keynote addresses and invited tutorials at international conferences. He is the current Chair of IFIP WG2.9 Software Requirements Engineering.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/A.Finkelstein/
Kris Gopalakrishnan (President, Infosys)
Co-founder of Infosys Technologies Limited.
Abstract: Requirements Engineering in a Globalized Business Environment
The talk would focus on the impact of globalization, outsourcing, and technology on Requirements Engineering. Most organizations are moving towards common platforms to run their global businesses. In many cases, these platforms are outsourced or their development is outsourced. The nature of outsourcing is also changing with the ability to create dynamic relationships with multiple partners in real time to complete the project. Under these circumstances, Requirements Engineering needs to change to adapt. This presentation will discuss Infosys experiences in managing requirements in a globalized business environment.
Presenter Biography
S. Gopalakrishnan (Kris to his colleagues) is one of the founders of Infosys Technologies Limited. He plays a key role in defining the company strategy and in using technology and innovation continuously to maintain its leadership of the industry.
Since April 2002, Kris has been the Chief Operating Officer. His responsibilities include Customer Services, Technology, Investments and Acquisitions. Kris is also the Chairperson of Infosys Consulting, a wholly owned subsidiary of Infosys Technologies Limited.
Kris’ initial responsibilities at Infosys included management of design, development, implementation and support of information systems for clients in the consumer products industry in the US. Between 1987 and 1994 he headed the technical operations of KSA/Infosys (a joint venture between Infosys and KSA at Atlanta, USA) as Vice President (Technical). In 1994, Kris returned to India and was appointed Deputy Managing Director of the company.
Kris is currently the Chairman of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and Vice Chairman of the Information Technology Education Standards Board (BITES) set up by the Government of Karnataka. He is on the board of directors of the National Internet Exchange of India. He is also the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Karnataka Region. He is a member of ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.
Kris holds M. Sc. (Physics) and M. Tech. (Computer Science) degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He began his career with Patni Computer Systems (PCS), Mumbai as a software engineer in 1979 and quickly rose to become an assistant project manager by 1981. His seminal contribution during his stint at PCS was the development of a distributed process control system for controlling LD converters at Rourkela Steel Plant.
http://www.infosys.com/about/s_gopalakrishnan.asp