Kirk Knoernschild

Presentations

Agile Architecture

Traditionally, we attempt to make the right architectural decisions early due to the significant anticipated cost affiliated with making incorrect decisions. But this contradicts agile practices which have taught us to embrace change. So how do agile and more »

Benefits of the Build - A Case Study in Continuous Integration

Agile processes such as XP and RUP advocate continuous integration, where shorter iterations produce an incremental and functional growth of the system. The fundamental component of any Continuous Integration strategy is an automated and repeatable build.more »

Dependency Management Techniques

Why is software so difficult to change? When you establish your initial vision for the software’s design and architecture, you imagine a system that is easy to modify, extend, and maintain. Unfortunately, as time passes, changes trickle in that exercise ymore »

GOF Patterns Applied

Design Patterns are proven and powerful techniques that can help improve the resiliency, maintainability, and extensibility of your applications. However, overusing or misapplying patterns is a common mistake often times resulting in applications that aremore »

Grass Roots agile

Agile processes promise to speed software delivery and increase software quality while embracing change throughout the development lifecycle. Yet transitioning from traditional software methods to a new way of working can be difficult, painful, and risky.more »

Enterprise Development and OSGi

A fad in the 90's, the promise of Component Based Development was never fully realized. A decade later, however, the dynamic module system for Java, codenamed OSGi, is exciting the development community by redefining delivery of component based systems demore »