Department of  Computing

Applications of Computing in Industry : Lecture

21 January
Noon, LT308 Huxley
 
company: UBS

Title: Agile Development in practice
Abstract:

Large scale software development requires some degree of organisation to ensure that the goals can be met. Many processes have been used in the past, many books have been written and many careers made in telling people how to develop software more quickly, better and cheaper. However software projects still fail, cost too much or don.t deliver what is needed, and actually it is getting worse and not better.

"They are low point in the last five study periods. This year's results represent the highest failure rate in over a decade"

Jim Crear, Standish Group CIO, Standish Report 2009

This talk reviews some of the characteristics of successful and failed projects and the factors that contributed towards their result. Further it discusses the approaches adopted at UBS and the evolution of these from the traditional software development techniques.

Speaker Details: Peter Thomas and Gordon Weir
 

Gordon Weir is the EMEA Head of TAS Operations IT, responsible for leading the multi-million pound programme of work to replace the existing high cost and complex legacy platforms. He is also driving numerous other initiatives and application support for the highest volume Securities processing house in Europe, UBS. Gordon is the driving force behind the organisational and cultural change in TAS IT and is assisting the wider IT community in the Investment Bank to change to adopting new software delivery practices.

Peter Thomas is Lead Software Engineer within Ops-IT. He is responsible for the delivery of a multi million dollar software solution for the middle and back office functions for cash equities and has delivery teams working within London, Hong Kong, India and Eastern Europe. His particular areas of interest are in cutting edge software delivery techniques, evolving software architectures and high performance computing.


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