14 January
1.45pm, LT308 Huxley
| Title: | The realities of software development |
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| Abstract: | There are many exciting topics in software development, but in many cases the reality is somewhat different to the glossy image being sold. Many organisations, from startups to banks, suffer enormously from poorly written software. These applications don’t advance business goals effectively, and can lead to horrific death march projects — hugely over time and over budget. This talk looks at the consequences of poorly written software systems and the battle of one company to move from an unsatisfactory architecture and implementation to a more lightweight and higher quality alternative. This allowed the company to make changes easily and to provide a well designed structure that made the software scalable and reliable. |
| Speaker Details: | Robin Stephenson Robin has worked for nearly twenty years in a variety of businesses, ranging from small startup companies to gigantic multinationals. As a long-time sysadmin and operations person, and more recently as an engineering manager he has seen some terrible things, and would like to share the lessons learnt — in particular how to recognise and a strategy for dealing with horrible software. |
