How to organize your code for long term success
Wednesday, 9:00 AM EST - SAND DOLLAR
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.
Workshop Requirements
This session is a workshop. Please come prepared.
This workshop will use Sonargraph-Architect to create architectural models for a project of your choice. While I will bring software and license keys on a flash drive you could install it upfront by registering on www.hello2morrow.com, download the tool and request an evaluation license. If possible, please bring a project to analyze that can be built on your laptop. Supported languages are Java, C#, C/C++ and Python. For people that cannot bring a project you will be provided with an open source project to work on.
About Alexander von Zitzewitz
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.
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