Waterfall 2006
After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You've always known a good waterfall-based process is the right way to develop software projects. Come to the Waterfall 2006 conference and see how a sequential development process can benefit your next project. Learn how slow, deliberate handoffs (with signatures!) between groups can slow the rate of change on any project so that development teams have more time to spend on anticipating user needs through big, upfront design.
Attend these valuable tutorials:
- Take Control of Your Team's Decisions NOW! by Ken Schwaber
- Avoiding the Seven Pitfalls of Lean by Mary Poppendieck
- Pair Managing: Two Managers per Programmer by Jim Highsmith
- Two-Phase Waterfall: Implementation Considered Harmful by Robert C. Martin
- User Interaction: It Was Hard to Build, It Should Be Hard to Use by Jeff Patton
- FIT Testing In When You Can; Otherwise Skip It by Ward Cunningham
- The Joy of Silence: Cube Farm Designs That Cut Out Conversation by Alistair Cockburn
- wordUnit: A Document Testing Framework by Kent Beck
- Slash and Burn: Rewrite Your Enterprise Applications Twice a Year by Michael Feathers
- Very Large Projects: How to Go So Slow No One Knows You'll Never Deliver by Jutta Eckstein
- Eliminating Collaboration: Get More Done Alone by Jean Tabaka
- Retrospectives: Looking Back...Looking Aaaall the Way Back by Diana Larsen
- The Glacial Methodology Workshop: A Data-Centric Software Development Process by Scott Ambler
- Introduction to Dogmatic Programming by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Unfactoring from Patterns: Job Security through Unreadability by Joshua Kerievsky
- Honing Cut-Throat Competition Among Employees: The Art and Science of Forced-Rank Evaluations by Esther Derby
- Making Outsourcing Work: One Team Member per Continent by Babu Bhatt
- User Stories and Other Lies Users Tell Us by Mike Cohn
- Refuctoring by Jason Gorman
- Ruby On Snails: Slow Down Development With This New Framework by Dave Thomas and Mike Clark
- Defect-full Code: Ensuring Future Income with Maintenance Contracts by Kay Pentecost
- Testing: Saving the Best for Last by Lisa Crispin
- Putting the
M Back in Configuration Management by Steve Berczuk - Stalwart Analysis: The Effluvia of Determined Thought by Don Sengroiux
- Pragmatic Project Chores: How to Do Everything Manually, Over and Over Again by Mike Clark
- The Role of Governance in Process Maturity: We're Lawyers, and We're Here To Help by Jackie Chiles
- WUP: The Waterfall Unified Process by Jon Kern
- Waterfall Made Easy--The RUP Way by Per Kroll
- If It Was Good Enough for Shakespeare: A Fresh Look at the Need for Talent in Software Engineering by Rob Styles
- The Economics of Certification by Todd Little
- Pedantic Information Delivery by Mark Janney
- Advanced Eclipse Debugger Techniques by J.B. (Joe) Rainsberger
- Riding your Project Management Career "Over the Waterfall" Successfully by Payson Hall
- Major SDLC phases: Development Driven Development and Test Driven Testing by Yury Makedonov
- Working Harder, Not Smarter by Jon Kale
Because it's possible you may want to attend all sessions, Waterfall 2006 features no concurrent sessions. All sessions are run sequentially for your enjoyment. However, since in a waterfall process we don't want testers to know anything about coding, or programmers to know anything about design, and so on, you can only attend sessions that match your job function. When you register to attend you'll be asked to select an appropriate job function. When sessions that are not relevant to you are running you will be required to sit idle in the lobby.
The conference will also feature a number of workshops. Unlike typical conferences where workshops involve participants talking with each other, all Waterfall 2006 workshops will be conducted by document. Come to a workshop, open up your favorite word processor and state your opinion on something. Email it to other workshop participants. (We'll set up mailing list aliases for this--after all, we want to keep this process efficient!) Then just sit back and wait for someone to reply with their own document. Don't miss this opportunity to participate in vigorous written discussion with your peers. The following workshops are planned:
- Project Bureaucracy: How to Generate Millions of Jobs without Gaining any Productivity by Jens Coldewey
- User Feedback: Eliminating the Main Cause of Project Overruns
- Is the SEI Letting Us Down?
- The Impact of Paper Bond Weight on Design Quality
- Creating a Culture of Conformance: Development, Deployment and Defense of Company-wide Procedures for Software Development
- Dinosaur Strategies: How Data Professionals Can Still Prosper in Modern IT Organizations by Scott Ambler
- Nailing Down Requirements: Techniques to Prevent Change
- Customer Signoffs: Just a Signature or Is a Date Needed Too?
- CMM Level 6: It's Bigger Than Five So It Must Be Better
- Semantics: Teaching Your Users What They Really Need
- InstantTest: Testing for the Next Generation
- Cubisms: Insights Into Increasing Productivity Through Isolation
- Upfront Design: If A Little Is Good, A Lot is Better
- The CM Uberprocess: Proactive Bottlenecking as a Quality Tool by Ben Weatherall
- Plan, Plan, Plan, and Then Plan Some More: How to Start Thinking by Andrew Boland
- Keeping Developers Alert: Skills in Stale Specs by John Durant
- Bringing Process Deviants Into Compliance by Doug Shimp
- Funding CM Tool Purchases by Ben Weatherall
The following research papers and experience reports will be presented:
- Going in Circles: The Pitfalls of Iterative Development by Eric Robinson and Jason Wood
- Business Sponsor Visibility via Gantt and PERT Charts
- The Software Engineering Body of Ignorance (SWEBOI): A Detailed Report on What We Don't Know by Michael Bolton
- Lean Waterfalling, the Toyota Way - Using Fagan Inspections to Stop the Line by Kevin Rutherford
- Management Patterns Gleaned from Government Oversight Programs: 70 Years of Experience in Effective Paragraph Numbering Schemes by Bill Tozier
- Look Before You Leap: Regression Analysis Checklists for Phase Entry Criteria Assessment by Keith Mantell
- Deferring Failure by Paul Oldfield
- Managing the Waterfall by Sarah Ramkissoon
- Crossword Puzzles as Requirements Documents: Make them Work for It
- Standards: The Waterfall at Work by Steve Loughran
- Maximizing Software Process ROI: How to make your excel chart go green by DJ de Villiers
- The Lonely Developer by Bill Grant
- Applying A Waterfall Methodology to Web Development by Luke Welling
Waterfall 2006 -- "Come on in, the water's fine."
Waterfalls: Not just for tourists."