About Cape Town SPIN

The Cape Town Software Process Improvement Network gathers monthly to share their experiences in initiating and sustaining software process improvement programs. The SPIN concept was initiated by the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI).

CT-SPIN #47: Thunk thank thunk

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Maarten Roode presents a fun, interactive workshop on problem solving. His colleagues at Intec asked him for a repeat and now he is so kind as to present it at SPIN.

Please note that this meeting date has been moved from the originally proposed date of 17 June, to the new date of 24 June. Apologies for the late notification!

Wednesday, 24 June, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn Training Room
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #46: Service Oriented Architecture

In this session, two experienced industry professionals will share their experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and provide us with a glimpse of the possibilities beyond the current incarnation of SOA.

Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #45 Executing Agile

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Agile remains a hot topic. This week we will hear about adoption of Scrum in making large, complex products at Intec, an internationally successful South African business. At last month's presentation, mention of executable, customer readable requirements drew quite some discussion. Aslam presents more about that topic and other related techniques.

Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #44 Rapidly changing software

This week, two people with wide and in-depth experience in delivering software in the real world share their thoughts on making the process more effecient and faster using better process and new tools to support that process.

  • Aligning software development tools with the iterative approach - Christian Oloff
  • Agile in ACTION: Solving the slow delivery of software - Tania van Wyk de Vries

Wednesday, 18 March 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #43: Managing complexity in your environment

In this session, John Gloor will show two simple methods for managing complexity in any environment. If you are frustrated that you are not maximising your potential, individually or within a group, then this session is directed at you.

  • Achieving a Systemic View of Things - John Gloor
  • Everything is a Conversation Design - John Gloor

Wednesday, 18 February 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #42: Project Value

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We kick off the year with a healthy dose of theory on the value of software projects and how best to optimise its delivery from Naomi Mansvelt, who recently completed her MBA thesis. SPIN veteran Emile Botha follows with more on the crucial role of business analysis from pre-sales to delivery processes.

Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #41: Data Quality, and AOP

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A significant factor in successfully dealing with the flood of data unleashed by the IT industry is ensuring its quality. This is a complex problem touching on all aspects of the life-cycle of the data through all aspects of the organisation. We are delighted to welcome Andreas Bartsch to SPIN to share his in-depth knowledge and experience.

We then close the SPIN's activities for the year of 2008 with a more technical topic, one that many people may have heard of, but Aspects has much untapped potential to simplify software and improve quality and maintainability. Aslam will tell us more about how the patterns and thinking behind aspects can also help to solve higher level architectural and design problems.

Please note that our meeting next week will be on Tuesday to accommodate our speakers.

  • Data Quality - Andreas Bartsch, PBT Group
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  • Solving Domain Problems with Aspects - Aslam Khan, Factor10

Tuesday, 11 November, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

Anyone is free to attend. Please RSVP by emailing YES or MAYBE via our contact form.

CT-SPIN #40: Scrum

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Qualified Scrum Coach Peter Hundermark and Sue Bramhall will present an overview and an interactive exercise that illustrates Scrum principles in action.

  • Scrum overview - Sue Bramhall - 24.com
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  • Ball Points game - Peter Hundermark - Scrum Sense

Wednesday, 15 October, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

CT-SPIN #39: Improving the business value of technical projects

This week we take a look at the role of the business analyst among others in the organisation, and a framework that aims to better evaluate project risk and cost.

  • The Business Analyst Perspective on Quality - Emile Botha
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  • Value-based Software Engineering using the Complex Adaptive Systems Software Engineering Framework - Joseph Balikkudembe
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Wednesday, 17 September, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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