Dr. Dobb's Architecture & Design World 2006 will take place July 17-20, in Chicago, IL. This conference gathers together the industry's top experts and visionaries to deliver relevant, practical training. All four conference tracks include valuable input from important thinkers in the world of Agile software development.
With four registration options and a team discount, the organizers have made an effort to make the conference financially accessible.
There will be a keynote by Edward Yourdon, titled Beyond UML, Erds and DFDs: The Evolution of Modeling in the Next Decade. His introduction to this session includes this provocative statement:
Architecture & Design Track
Modeling Track
Process & Methods Track
Usability Track
This year's Program Schedule is searchable, so you can look for subjects of particular interest - search by day, track, session format, speaker and/or keyword.
With four registration options and a team discount, the organizers have made an effort to make the conference financially accessible.
There will be a keynote by Edward Yourdon, titled Beyond UML, Erds and DFDs: The Evolution of Modeling in the Next Decade. His introduction to this session includes this provocative statement:
Perhaps the most important evolution will be "extemporaneous models" of "ad hoc" systems, which more and more organizations are creating from open-source components, XML, RSS and other Internet technologies. As Mr. Yourdon will demonstrate, system developers may not have the time or resources to create formal models of such systems in advance, but it will be critically important to create such models "on-the-fly," as the systems "emerge," so that they can be maintained and trusted for mission-critical applications.Following are the planned sessions by Agile founders, writers and thinkers. Some of the session descriptions explicitly mention Agile methods, others do not. Of course, what really counts is the quality of the speakers, and these are among the best.
Architecture & Design Track
| Security Threat Modeling: Creating Secure Architectures | Granville Miller |
| The Challenges of Embedded/Real-Time Development | Stephen Mellor |
| The Art of Telling Your Design Story | Rebecca Wirfs-Brock |
| Test Driven Development With JUnit | Elliotte Rusty Harold |
| Principles of Object Oriented class Design | Robert C. Martin |
| Advanced Principle of Object Oriented Component Design | Robert C. Martin |
| Using MDA to Promote Your Architecture | Jon Kern |
Modeling Track
| Agile Model Driven Development (AMDD): Scaling Agile Methods | Scott Ambler |
| Scaling System Design | Stephen Mellor |
| Building and Implementing Concurrent Specifications | Stephen Mellor |
| From UML to Embedded System – Is it possible ? | Stephen Mellor |
| Introducing Problem Frames | Rebecca Wirfs-Brock |
| Interactive Agile MDA | Jon Kern |
| MDA Distilled | Stephen Mellor |
| Model Driven Development Face-Off | (Panel) |
| Applying UML: Best Practices and Future Perspectives | Darius Silingas |
Process & Methods Track
| Test Driven Development Immersion. | Robert C. Martin |
| A Brief Tour of Responsibility-Driven Design | Rebecca Wirfs-Brock |
| Update on the Unified Process: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, and Definitely Something Blue | Scott Ambler |
| SCM Patterns for Agile Architectures | Brad Appleton |
| Evolutionary Database Development: The Next Leap Forward | Scott Ambler |
| Using Shadow Architectures | Granville Miller |
| A Closer Look at Agile MDA Methods | Jon Kern |
| XP, RUP, Scrum, MSF??? Picking the Right Software Process | Scott Ambler |
Usability Track
| From Use Case to User Interface | Jeff Patton |
| Software Design, Interaction Design: The View Across the User Interface Divide | (Panel) |
| Designing for Handheld Usability | James Hobart |
| Designing Usable Web 2.0 Applications | James Hobart |
| Rapid Prototyping to Drive Requirements | James Hobart |
This year's Program Schedule is searchable, so you can look for subjects of particular interest - search by day, track, session format, speaker and/or keyword.