Alexander von Zitzewitz
Founder and Managing Director, Hello2morrow
Alexander von Zitzewitz is founder, managing director of the company and CEO of the US subsidiary. He has more than 20 years of project and management experience. In 1993 he founded ootec - a company focused on project services around object oriented software technology. This company was sold to the French Valtech group in March 2000 and served customers like Siemens, BMW, Thyssen-Krupp-Stahl and other well known names in German industry. From 2003 to early 2005 he was working as Director of Central Europe for the French company Xcalia S.A. Since the summer of 2008 he is living in Massachusetts. His areas of expertise are object oriented system design and large scale system architecture. Alexander has a degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
Presentations
How to organize your code for long term success
Wednesday, 3:15 PM EST
Most nontrivial software systems suffer from significant levels of technical and architectural debt. This leads to exponentially increasing cost of change, which is not sustainable for a longer period of time. The single best thing you can do to counter this problem is to give some love to your architecture by carefully managing and controlling the dependencies among the different elements and components of a software system. For that purpose we will introduce a DSL (domain specific language) that can be used to describe and enforce architectural blueprints. Moreover we will make an excursion into the topic of legacy software modernization.
In this workshop part participants will use Sonargraph to assess and analyze a software system of their choice (Java, C/C++, C# or Python) and design an architectural model using the domain specific language introduced in the session. The tool and a free 60 day license will be provided during the workshop.
How to organize your code for long term success
Wednesday, 5:00 PM EST
Most nontrivial software systems suffer from significant levels of technical and architectural debt. This leads to exponentially increasing cost of change, which is not sustainable for a longer period of time. The single best thing you can do to counter this problem is to give some love to your architecture by carefully managing and controlling the dependencies among the different elements and components of a software system. For that purpose we will introduce a DSL (domain specific language) that can be used to describe and enforce architectural blueprints. Moreover we will make an excursion into the topic of legacy software modernization.
In this workshop part participants will use Sonargraph to assess and analyze a software system of their choice (Java, C/C++, C# or Python) and design an architectural model using the domain specific language introduced in the session. The tool and a free 60 day license will be provided during the workshop.
Software Metrics for Architects
Thursday, 1:30 PM EST
Software metrics can be used effectively to judge the maintainability and architectural quality of a code base. Even more importantly they can be used as “canaries in a coal mine” to warn early about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt.
This session will introduce some key metrics that every architect should know and also looks into the current research regarding software architecture metrics. Since we have 90 minutes there will be some time for hands-on software assessments. If you'd like to follow along bring your laptop and install Sonargraph-Explorer from our website www.hello2morrow.com. (It's free and covers most of the metrics we will introduce) Bring a Java, C#, C/C++ or project and run the metrics on your own code. Or just download an open source project and learn how to use metrics to assess software and detect issues.