As developers we dread when management requests a project estimate. Typically, you do not have the opportunity to understand all the requirements, the team composition is unknown, and you have been given until tomorrow end of day to produce an estimate. Several months later everyone is yelling at you about the software estimation errors encountered during the project.

This presentation will cover some simple techniques for creating order of magnitude estimates. In addition, leveraging the cone of uncertainty the presentation will also cover techniques for managing management expectations.

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.