Future Events
Software Acumen are organising or taking part in the following conferences, exhibitions, talks or training courses:
Past Events
Here is a selection of the past events we have organised or taken part in:
Code Generation 2012: 28th-30th March 2012. Cambridge, UK.
The Code Generation conference is the leading event on the practical applications of Model-Driven Software Development.
The event draws the leading model-driven software development practitioners from around the world for 3 days of high-energy learning and sharing of experiences.
Visit the Code Generation 2012 web site for more information.
Agile Cambridge 2011: Cambridge, UK. (29-30th September. Cambridge, UK)
The East of England's premier conference on agile software development returns in 2011.
Keynotes - Jurgen Appelo & David J. Anderson.
Visit the Agile Cambridge 2011 web site for more information and to keep up with event news.
Code Generation 2011: 25th-27th May 2011. Cambridge, UK.
The Code Generation conference is the leading event on the practical applications of Model-Driven Software Development.
The event draws the leading model-driven software development practitioners from around the world for 3 days of high-energy learning and sharing of experiences.
Visit the Code Generation 2011 web site for more information and to make a booking.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. Feburary 10th, 2011.
Managing the product backlog effectively - with Roman Pichler
Join the Software East Social Network to take part.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. January 20th, 2011.
Inspect & Adapt with Agile Retrospectives with Rachel Davies.
Join the Software East Social Network to take part.
Practical Product Lines 2010: November 17th - 18th, 2010. Venlo, NL.
With its emphasis on providing actionable guidance on best practices, Practical Product Lines 2010 is the ideal opportunity for software practitioners to understand how to benefit from emerging approaches, technologies and tools in the field of Software Product Lines.
The conference keynotes are and Phillippe Kruchten (University of British Columbia) and Tim Trew (Independent).
The event is organised by Techwatch and Software Acumen and supported by Océ and OMG.
Visit the Practical Product Lines 2010 web site to make your booking. OMG members save 10%.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. November 18th, 2010.
Agile Software Dvelopment in a DNA Sequencing application.
Join the Software East Social Network to take part.
Agile Cambridge 2010: 14th - 15th October 2010. Cambridge, UK.
The East of England's first conference on agile software development is coming soon.
Keynote speakers ar Dr. James Whittaker (Google) and Rachel Davies (Agile Experience).
Visit the Agile Cambridge 2010 web site for more information and to keep up with event news.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. June 24th, 2010.
3 speakers talk about different aspects of iPhone development.
Join the Software East Social Network to take part.
Code Generation 2010: 16th - 18th June 2010. Cambridge, UK.
The Code Generation conference is Europe's leading event on Model-Driven Software Development.
The event draws the leading code generation and model-driven software development practitioners from around the world for 3 days of high-energy learning and sharing of experiences.
Keynote speakers this year are (Pragmatic) Dave Thomas and Eelco Visser.
Visit the Code Generation 2010 web site for more information and to make a booking.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. May 20th, 2010.
The falling off a log theory and other observations on the software industry
Speaker: Allan Kelly
Synopsis
Allan Kelly believes that starting your own software company is as easy as falling off a log. That doesn't mean you will last very long, most will fail within the first year. A handful of these companies will be very luck and become very successful, and the rest will be cursed by doing something right, but not a lot else.
In this sometimes humorous talk Allan will take a look at some software business models, why software businesses fail, why some succeed; the chaos that is software development, the search for mediocrity and try to pin down what this Agile thing actually is. As if that weren't enough he promises to reveal his biggest ever mistake - in the software world that is.
Join the Software East Social Network to take part.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. April 22nd, 2010.
April's Software East talk witll focus on Cloud Applications.
We'll cover the pros and cons of cloud-computing, give some tips on how to get started and hopefully address any questions on whether cloud is right for your application.
Join the Software East Social Networkand add your name to the event to take part.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. March 18th, 2010.
Software East's March event focusses on Software Pricing.
Invited panellists: Neil Davidson (Red Gate Software), Aviv Handler (Co-Herence), Shaun Hughes (Convergys), Paul Walsh (Cognidox).
Sign-up on the Software East Social Network and add your name to the event attendees to take part.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. February 18th, 2010.
Software East's February event focusses on user-centred design.
Rachel Jones, Instrata - User-Centred Innovation & Design
User-centred designers have a skill set to carry out activities as varied as user interface design, user testing, user requirements specification, user research, concept creation, and user-centred innovation. On existing projects, a software engineer or business analyst is often asked to do some of these activities and muddle along as best they can.
In this talk, Rachel will discuss the type of development projects where user-centred design skills add value (and the type of projects where muddling along is fine) and indicate where and when user-centred skills are best engaged.
Visit the Software East Social Network for more information.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. January 21st, 2010.
Software East's January event focusses on Agile Adoption Anti-Patterns. This is a free event but you must pre-register before 18th January.
James Lewis, Thoughtworks - Agile Adoption Anti-Patterns
This session focuses on the things that you shouldn't do when trying to introduce Agile practices to an organisation.
Maybe you drank the Agile cool-aid and are struggling to introduce agile on your own or you are an Agile Coach trying to make some sense of the madness that is your current client. There are many more ways for agile adoption to fail than for it to succeed. Drawing on his experience introducing Agile principles and practices in large blue-chip organisations, the speaker will showcase a number of anti-patterns, technological to methodological that could put your agile rollout at risk.
Visit the Software East Social Network to register and for more information.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. November 19th, 2009.
Software East's November event focusses on using Kanban for agile development.
Karl Scotland (Conchango) - Five Steps to Kanban - A Kanban System for Software Development provides an alternative means of creating an Agile Development process using Lean Thinking. Creating a Kanban System is not as simple as adopting a previously defined process as a starting point. Instead, a team needs to come up a model of its own process which will form the basis for further continuous improvement. This talk will introduce 5 steps that a team can use to create their own Agile process using a Kanban System for Software Development.
Visit the Software East web site for more information.
Practical Product Lines 2009: 20th - 21st October, 2009. Amsterdam, NL.
With its emphasis on providing actionable guidance on best practices, Practical Product Lines 2009 is the ideal opportunity for software practitioners to understand how to benefit from emerging approaches, technologies and tools in the field of Software Product Lines.
The conference keynotes are Jan Bosch (Intuit), Markus Völter (independent / itemis), Dieter Rombach (Fruanhofer IESE) & Dirk-Jan Swagerman (FEI).
The event is organised by Techwatch, Software Acumen and Quality Catch and supported by OMG.
Visit the Practical Product Lines 2009 web site to make your booking. OMG and SPIder members save 10%.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. October 8th, 2009.
Internationally-renowned software guru Tim Lister is coming to Cambridge and will share his experiences at Software East.
Tim Lister, a Principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, along with five of his partners at the Guild, have been compiling project patterns from their combined 150 years of project consulting, and they have delivered them in their Jolt Award winning book, Adrenalin Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior.
Time will speak about his work and discuss the audience's own project management experiences at this special event.
Visit the Software East web site for more information.
Software Architect 2009: 29th September - 1st October 2009. London, UK.
Software Acumen's Mark Dalgarno will be speaking again at this popular UK event for software architects.
Mark's session Reconstructing Software Architectures will run on Thursday 1st October:
‘Inheriting’ software you don’t really understand can be a painful experience. Whether it’s a big ball of mud, spaghetti or just plain weird we all will typically have to work with such software at some point in our careers.
This session describes some practices for systematically approaching the task of reverse engineering such software to reconstruct its architecture and so help reduce the pain of working with it.
Along the way we’ll pick the brains of audience members by way of group exercises looking at different aspects of the reverse engineering problem.
Visit the Software Architect 2009 web site for more information.
Code Generation 2009: 16th-18th June 2009. Cambridge, UK.
Now in its 3rd year the Code Generation conference is firmly established as Europe's leading event on Model-Driven Software Development.
The conference is a strongly practical event covering all aspects of code generation, model-driven software development, domain-specific languages, executable UML etc.
Watch a short video clip of participants speaking about Code Generation 2009.
Keynote Speakers are recognised industry experts Steven Kelly and Markus Völter. This year's programme consists of 30+ sessions from recognised industry experts.
Software Acumen are the organisers of this event. Please visit the Code Generation conference web site for more information.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. May 21st, 2009.
Software East's May event focusses on Making Sense of Agile Development with a talk by Joseph Pelrine, one of Europe's leading experts on eXtreme Programming as well as Europe's first certified ScrumMaster Practitioner and Trainer.
This session is relevant for anyone who leads and/or participates in Agile teams, but is aimed at practitioners looking for new and novel ways of removing impediments and adapting Agile processes in organizations.
Software East brings the best software speakers to the East of England. Events focus on the state of the art in software practice, process and technology.
Visit the Software East web site for more information.
Embedded Masterclass: May 12th 2009. Bristol, UK
Software Acumen will once again be taking part in the unique Embedded Masterclass event - the leading one day event for embedded software engineers. The event is built around a set of technical (i.e. non-sales) talks and a small exhibition of leading embedded suppliers.
Software Acumen will be exhibiting the pure::variants toolset, for effective management of families of similar-but-different embedded systems and the Axivion Bauhaus Suite code analysis solution for stopping software erosion and managing software architectures.
Embedded Masterclass: May 7th 2009. Cambridge, UK
Software Acumen will once again be taking part in the unique Embedded Masterclass event - the leading one day event for embedded software engineers. The event is built around a set of technical (i.e. non-sales) talks and a small exhibition of leading embedded suppliers.
Software Acumen will be exhibiting the pure::variants toolset, for effective management of families of similar-but-different embedded systems and the Axivion Bauhaus Suite code analysis solution for stopping software erosion and managing software architectures.
Developer Day Scotland: May 2nd. Glasgow, UK.
Developer Day Scotland (DDS) is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! (DDD) community conference events.
Scottish Developers is pleased to bring this phenomenal success to Scotland once again. The very best of the UK speaker community will be presenting on the topics delegates wish to see.
The event will take place at Glasgow Caledonian University and attendance is free.
Software Acumen's Mark Dalgarno will be presenting his popular 'When Good Architecture Goes Bad' session.
Visit the Developer Day Scotland web site for more information.
ACCU Conference 2009: 22nd-25th April, 2009. Oxford, UK.
The 2009 event will be yet another exciting conference in the best ACCU tradition. Software Acumen's Mark Dalgarno will be presenting 3 sessions at this event:
- Reverse Engineering Patterns: I wouldn't start here if I were you - a workshop on software reverse engineering
- What motivates Software Developers? - jointly with Helen Sharp (Open University)
- Attack for the Clones: Copy & Paste Programming and what to do about it. (Lightning talk)
The programme will facilitate dialogue between developers, analysts, planners and managers and will cover a wide range of subjects including development process, software analysis and design, and patterns as well as softer aspects such as team building, communication and leadership.
Visit the ACCU Conference web site for more information.
Software Practice Advancement 2009: 5th-8th April, 2009. BCS London, Covent Garden, London, UK.
SPA2009 bring together experts and practitioners across a variety of industries, from around the world, to share the latest thinking in software development.
SPA2009 is about learning through interaction. At SPA2009 you will engage, critically evaluate and draw insights which you will take away and use each and every day.
Visit the SPA2009 web site for more information.
Software East: March 19th, 2009. Cambridge, UK.
Software East brings the best software speakers to the East of England. Events focus on the state of the art in software practice, process and technology.
March's event will focus on Technology Product Management.
Visit the Software East web site for more information.
When Good Architecture Goes Bad: 4th March, 2009. London, UK
Mark Dalgarno will lead a workshop session on the topic of Software Erosion at the London meeting of the British Computer Society's Software Practice Advancement group.
As software evolves, its architecture ‘as-is’ gradually deviates from its architecture ‘as-hoped-for’ – the software is said to erode or decay.
Software Erosion can be a problem because:
- the time, effort and risk in implementing further changes increases
- the effect of further changes becomes harder to predict
- further changes typically cause the ‘as-is’ architecture to deviate further from the ‘as-hoped-for’ architecture – the situation becomes worse.
This session looks at examples of software erosion and explores practices to prevent or slow such decay. Participants should come prepared with architectural 'war stories'. There will be a couple of group exercises but no test at the end.
Preregister for this event here.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. January 22nd, 2009.
Software East brings the best software speakers to the East of England. Events focus on the state of the art in software practice, process and technology.
This session will have a panel on 'Building a Software Business' as its theme. Mark Dalgarno will lead the panel and confirmed panellists are Neil Davidson (Red Gate Software), Van Emmenis (Comply Serve), Allan Kelly (Independent) and John Melotte (Corum Group).
Visit the Software East web site to register for the event. Tickets cost £20 (including buffet). Registration from 18:30.
Software East: Cambridge, UK. November 20th, 2008.
Software East brings the best software speakers to the East of England. Events focus on the state of the art in software practice, process and technology.
The first event will take place on the evening of Thursday 20th November and will consist of talks from Steven Kelly, a worldwide authority on Domain-Specific Modelling, and Danilo Beuche, a recognised expert on the emerging Software Product Lines discipline.
Visit the Software East web site for more information.
Cambridge Wireless Software SIG - Tackling Diversity: November 20th, 2009. Cambridge, UK.
With hundreds of handsets on the market developers must dig deep and provide several different product variants to compete. But how do you tackle the diversity issue?
Cambridge Wireless is delighted to offer this half-day Software SIG event championed by Mark Dalgarno of Software Acumen and Peter Hazlett from Symbian.
Current opinion says that the ‘one-size-fits-all’ model just isn’t attainable at present, leaving mobile developers with the issue of producing several diverse product variants to meet this challenge.
This diversity arises from several sources:
- Differences between handsets.
- Operator-specific requirements.
- Market differentiation e.g high-end vs low-end products.
- Legal differences (e.g different laws on gambling).
This event will outline the scale of the problem, look at ways of addressing it and consider whether the future holds more of the same.
Speakers will be John Scott (Qualcomm), Danilo Beuche (pure-systems) and Steven Kelly (MetaCase).
Events are FREE to Cambridge Wireless Members. Tickets for non-members are £150.00 plus VAT. To join Cambridge Wireless, and attend all future events for free please visit: www.cambridgewireless.co.uk/sign-up
BCS Software Practice Advancement Cambridge: 12th November 2008. Cambridge, UK
Mark Dalgarno of Software Acumen will lead a workshop session entitled 'When Good Architecture Goes Bad' at the BCS SPA Cambridge evening event.
The workshop considers the problem of software architecture decay and how to tackle it.
Visit the SPA Cambridge web site for more information and to preregister.
Embedded Systems Show: 1st-2nd October, 2008. Birmingham, UK.
Software Acumen's Mark Dalgarno has been invited by the organisers of this year's ESS to organise a conference stream on Code Generation approaches and technologies.
The conference stream will run on 2nd October as part of the two-day event at Birmingham's NEC.
Visit the ESS web site for more information and to register for the event.
Software and Systems Quality Conference: September 29th-30th 2008. London, UK.
The largest UK event on software and systems quality - with this year's conference built around the theme of improving business productivity.
Software Acumen will be on stand 17 of the associated exhibition demonstrating Axivion Bauhaus Suite - a powerful solution for software quality analysis - and pure::variants - the leading solution for software product line development.
Visit the Software and Systems Quality Conference (UK) web site for more information.
Software Product Lines Conference 2008: September 8th-12th. Limerick, Ireland.
Software Acumen will be taking part in the annual Software Product Lines conference where our staff will be available to discuss pure::variants, the industry-leading solution for managing product line development, and Axivion Bauhaus Suite, a unique solution for stopping software erosion.
The company's Mark Dalgarno will also be running two sessions at the event:
Product Line Scoping in Practice is a panel session considering the key product line activity of scoping - how is it done in practice, what are the pitfalls, how do you manage changing scope etc.
Jump-Starting Software Product Lines with Clone Detection is a demo session that looks at how applying clone detection to legacy systems can be used to identify assets for a new product line platform.
Visit the SPLC 2008 web site for more information and to reserve your place.
Code Generation 2008: June 25th-27th. Cambridge, UK
After the resounding success of Code Generation 2007 we're doing it all again for 2008.
Come along to hear the best speakers on topics such as Software Factories, MDA, Domain-Specific Modelling and Generative Programming. Keynote speakers will be Steve Cook (Microsoft) architect of Microsoft's DSL Tools and Bran Selic (Malina Software Corporation) an independent consultant and head of the UML2 Standards committee.
For more information visit the Code Generation 2008 web site.
Software Architect 2008: June 3rd-5th. London, UK
Software Acumen's Mark Dalgarno will be leading a session entitled When Good Architecture Goes Bad at this specialist event for software architects.
Mark covers common types of architectural decay, gives some case studies to illustrate decay and in a workshop style asks the audience to share their experience of these types of problems and their proposed solutions.
Visit the Software Architect 2008 web site for more information.
Embedded Masterclass: May 13th 2008. Bristol, UK
Software Acumen will also take part in the second Embedded Masterclass event. A free one day event for embedded engineers.
Mark Dalgarno will again give a talk entitled When Good Architecture Goes Bad - and what to do about it!
Software Acumen will also be exhibiting the pure::variants toolset for effective management of families of similar-but-different embedded systems. pure::variants users included leading companies in the automotive, consumer electronics, industrial control and other embedded sectors.
Embedded Masterclass: May 8th 2008. London, UK
Software Acumen will take part in this free, one day Embedded Masterclass event.
Software Acumen's Mark Dalgarno will give a short talk entitled When Good Architecture Goes Bad - and what to do about it!
Even the most flexible software system can suffer as changes are made to it over the years. In this session Mark will consider such changes and how they can erode a system's software architecture. You'll also learn about valuable practices that can be adopted to prevent or slow erosion.
Software Acumen will also be exhibiting the pure::variants toolset for effective management of families of similar-but-different embedded systems. pure::variants users included leading companies in the automotive, consumer electronics, industrial control and other embedded sectors.
ACCU Conference 2008: April 2nd - 5th 2008. Oxford, UK
Mark Dalgarno will be repeating his SPA 2008 conference workshop When Good Architecture Goes Bad at this year's ACCU conference.
This workshop session considers the problems of software architecture decay, why evolving software decays and what can be done about it.
Come along to share your stories of architectural decay and how you addressed it.
Mark will also be available for the whole conference to talk to people about Software Acumen's work on Software Product Lines and Code Generation.
SPA 2008: March 16th-19th 2008. Cambridge, UK
Mark Dalgarno, a senior consultant with Software Acumen, will be speaking at this year's BCS Software Practice Advancement Group annual conference - SPA 2008.
In a workshop session titled When Good Architecture Goes Bad participants will consider the problem of software architecture decay as systems are evolved and will look at the value of various approaches to prevent or slow such decay.
Come and meet Mark at the event to talk about Architectural Decay, Software Product Lines, Code Generation or anything else that takes your fancy. Mark will be blogging about the event at The Variation Point.
Embedded Systems Show 2007: 17th-18th October. Birmingham, UK
Software Acumen will be demonstrating pure::variants, a specialist variant management toolset used by leading embedded developers in the consumer electronics, telecomms, automotive and other embedded sectors.
The Embedded Systems Show is the UK's largest event for system engineering and embedded software development.
miniSPA2007: 16th July 2007. London, UK
Software Acumen features in the forthcoming miniSPA2007 event, which showcases six of the best sessions from the BCS Software Practice Advancement group’s SPA 2007 conference. The company’s Mark Dalgarno has been invited to rerun The Scoping Game session at the event.
The Scoping Game asks participants to take on the role of product managers in a fictional software development company planning to produce a portfolio of similar-but-different software products i.e. a Software Product Line.
3rd IET Conference on Automotive Electronics: 28th - 29th June. Warwick, UK
Mark Dalgarno, a senior consultant at Software Acumen has been invited to speak at the 3rd IET Conference on Automotive Electronics.
Mark’s talk, 2 million options are not enough – Automotive Variant Management, outlines some of the issues when developing multiple similar-but-different automotive system variants and illustrates these with two examples:
- An engine-management systems supplier who wishes to reduce configuration times for their Simulink model variants.
- A vehicle manufacturer who wants to reuse requirements across their infortainment system specifications.
Software Acumen is the UK’s only provider of specialist tools and services for variant management and the talk will showcase the company’s expertise in this field.
The conference takes place at the University of Warwick, Coventry. See http://conferences.iee.org/autoelec/index.htm for more information.
Code Generation 2007: 18th-20th May. Cambridge, England
Code Generation 2007 will bring together leading practitioners in the fields of model-based development, domain-specific languages and software product lines.
With its practical focus, this event will give engineers the knowledge to apply these approaches in their own organisations. Visit the Code Generation 2007 web site to see the programme and make a booking. Mark Dalgarno of Software Acumen is the event organiser. Visit Mark's blog, The Variation Point, for a behind-the-scenes look at the event.
BCS CMSG Conference 2007: 15th-16th May. Oxford, UK
Software Acumen are Silver sponsors of the 3rd BCS Configuration Management Specialist Group Conference and will be demonstrating pure::variants and pure::variants add-on modules for Configuration Management.
The conference will bring together managers and practitioners working in Change, Configuration and Release management. Presentations by practitioners and world leaders in the field will cover a wide variety of Configuration Management-related topics.
Embedded Masterclass 2007: 3rd May. Cambridge, UK.
Software Acumen, and other leading embedded tools suppliers, will be present at May's Embedded Masterclass.
The event will be an important opportunity for engineers and engineering managers to meet key vendors of the tools, the services and the components that are essential for the development of future embedded systems. If you are an embedded engineer or a manager in a technology company, then there is no cost to attend. Visit the Embedded Masterclass web site for more information.
ACCU Conference 2007: April 11th-14th 2007, Oxford, UK
Mark Dalgarno of Software Acumen will participate in this year's ACCU annual conference. Come and meet him to talk about Software Product Lines, Code Generation or why Lisp is better than C++. Mark will be blogging about the event at The Variation Point.
SPA 2007: 25th-28th March 2007, Cambridge, UK
Mark Dalgarno of Software Acumen will participate in this year's BCS Software Practice Advancement Group annual conference - SPA 2007.
Mark will present a session entitled The Scoping Game - a simulation of software product line scoping that was first presented at the 2006 Software Product Lines conference.
Come and meet him to talk about Software Product Lines, Code Generation or anything else that takes your fancy. Mark will be blogging about the event at The Variation Point.
INCOSE Spring Conference: 16-18th April 2007. Swindon, UK
Software Acumen are supporting the INCOSE Spring Conference 2007 and will be talking about pure::variants and pure::variants add-on modules for Requirements Management and Configuration Management.
The event has the theme of “The Future of Systems Engineering” and includes a programme of tutorial and paper presentations. Visit the INCOSE Spring Conference 2007 web site for more information.
Telelogic UK UGC 2006: 19th-21st November. Newport, Wales
Software Acumen are pleased to announce our support for this year's Telelogic UK User Group conference.
The company will be exhibiting pure::variants and the pure::variants Synchronizer for DOORS solution for software and systems product line management.
Visit the event web site for more information.