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CT-SPIN #68: Production Support – if it’s visible, it’s manageable
Tons of bugs, a gloomy support team, and new features always being more important than fixes; this is how Austin Fagan describes the beginning of his quest to help improve the production support processes at a leading UK broad band supplier. … Continue reading
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CT-SPIN #67: Learning From Failure Overpowers Fear
Event Sponsor: Implementing change is never easy and pain, fear and failure is often part of the process. Samantha Laing will provide some insights on how to use failures to overcome the inherent fears associated with switching to a new … Continue reading
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CT-SPIN #66: Breaking down silos: Lessons in building better software through collaboration
Event Sponsor: Why do we so often see web applications that are visually displeasing, and more importantly, usability nightmares? Why do designers often get stuck being asked to “make the design pop a little more,” with no room or incentive … Continue reading
CT-SPIN #65: Critical success factors for implementing a Data Warehouse solution
Event Sponsor: Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing are issues that many companies in South Africa struggle with. Karen van der Walt and Clint Vosloo will provide us with some insight into their implementation of data warehousing at Momentum. Snacks kindly … Continue reading
CT-SPIN #64: Taming the customer support queue: A Kanban Experience Report
Event Sponsor: Update: This talk by Karen Greaves has been accepted for the Agile 2011 Conference, August in Utah. Be the first to hear it at CT-SPIN in February. In Aug 2010 we reduced the size of our development team. … Continue reading
CT-SPIN #63: Object Oriented Design
Event Sponsor: OO is the first development technology that really has the potential to deliver against business needs, i.e., to produce systems that are flexible, robust, reliable, reusable and extendable. There are a range of concepts, ideas, rules, guidelines and … Continue reading
CT-SPIN #62: Introduction to Ruby on Rails 3.0
Event Sponsor: Version 3 of the popular Ruby on Rails web application framework has been released in late August. Robert Crida and Stuart Corbishley of Clue Technologies will provide an overview of the latest version’s capabilities that makes it a … Continue reading
CT-SPIN #61: Declarative UIs – The Promised Land?
Event Sponsor: Graphical user interfaces (GUI) form an integral part of a large portion of the programs we write, but GUIs are not always easy or fun to build. Herman Lintvelt, founder of Polymorph Software, will speak about declarative user … Continue reading
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CT-SPIN #60: Thinking in Patterns
Event Sponsor: Pattern thinking is not just for architects. Aslam Khan will present a workshop to demonstrate how to “Thinking in Patterns”. You will walk away with a new skill in your toolbox. Snacks kindly sponsored by Alacrity. Slides: Thinking … Continue reading
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CT-SPIN #59: Kanban for Software Engineering in a Nutshell
The Kanban principles are nothing new, but applying them in software projects is a relatively recent phenomenon. Jaco van der Merwe, from Electromagnetic Software and Systems, will introduce us to the Kanban principles and explain how they fit into the … Continue reading
