Once you leave academic "hello world" projects, software development is full of unknowns which result in the high rate of project failure we see too often in industry. Reasons for a project failure will vary based on the stakeholder interviewed. This session will provide a software development risk framework and examples you can apply in your projects to reduce or at least soften the impact of failure.

The Software Development Risk Analysis techniques presentation examines several tools taken from the Six Sigma world to identify and manage risks with the objective to avoid failures or at least soften the impact of failure. Because software development is a team exercise this presentation is targeted towards everyone from Software Development managers to hands on developers. During the presentation we will apply risk management techniques to several sample (and typical) software development project problem areas.

Development teams are increasingly scattered all over the world, often a development manager now days will never meet the entire team face to face.

This session will explore useful metrics for managing distributed development teams and keeping the project on-time and on-budget.

How do you know when you are "DONE" and the assignment is complete? Well of course you are done when your requirements are complete. But it always happens that your interpretation differs from the customer/management's interpretation.

This session will explore the use of FitNesse to create "Business" readable test cases before development even begins so you can agree with your customer as to what "DONE" means and prove that you have actually completed the requirements to specifications.

This session will explore GroovyWS as a tool to quickly produce and or consume a web service. Web Service testing becomes much easier without the need to purchase expense testing tools using the GroovyWS framework.

In this session we will take some code examples to demonstrate the creation of a web service and its consumption using GroovyWS. Also, using GroovyWS and other utilities the session will demonstrate how to dynamically test web services.

With all of these web services becoming available there is an increasing need for tools to pull together multiple web services into one composite service. BPEL is an up and coming approach to orchestrating a workflow consisting of Web Service calls.

This session will go beyond the vendor specific graphical workflow design tools to introduce the BPEL language constructs. Using real BPEL code examples applied to a couple of problem domains we will introduce concepts which can get you started developing SOA Workflow applications.

You have just received the much desired promotion to Technical Team Lead The team is waiting your direction. You What should you do now?

This session uses discussion to explore common pitfalls encountered by new Technical leads as well as possible solutions.