Workshops -- Monday

The 70's and 80's saw significant innovation in the object community. New technologies and software development approaches promised much. Smalltalk, modern UI's, highly incremental development and use cases are just some of the major innovations of this period. Whilst early proponents of OT such as Brad Cox, promised much for OO, it would appear Fred Brooks was closer to the mark in his paper "No Silver Bullet". More recently it could be argued that the object community has entered the period of time that science philosopher Thomas Kuhn characterized as "normal science". Modest incremental improvements within the current paradigm, but nothing revolutionary.

The new millennia provides a good reminder that we need to get the thinking cap back on.

The goal of this workshop is to explore how software development will be undertaken in the next century. What processes, technologies management strategies and support environments will evolve to deliver an order of magnitude improvement in development outcomes?

The workshop will characterize the processes, management strategies and technologies for advanced development and provide a road map for getting there.