Cape Town SPIN

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Cloud computing receives a lot of attention these days. With prominent players such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Sun providing platforms, it is technology to take note of. Brian Silberbauer will introduce us to the cloud and share his experience using this growing technology.

Please also note that the yearly steering committee election will be held beforehand.

• Getting Your Head Around the Cloud - Brian Silberbauer
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

You can now follow the activities of the Cape Town Software Process Improvement Network on Twitter. Like our announcement mailing list, this will be a low traffic information source.

Some people's code are easier to read and understand than other's. Style, structure, variable names, comments and many more factors contribute to the differences. Marius de Beer will introduce us to Clean Code and share practical guidelines to make your code more understandable and look great.

• Clean Code - The Software Professional's imperative - Marius de Beer
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Wednesday, 16 September, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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Herman Lintvelt presents a fun, practical workshop about GUI design. As an added bonus his company, Polymorph systems has also decided to bring some wine along to help set a more creative atmosphere and complement the snacks from Intec

• "Art is about freedom, Design is about constraints" - Herman Lintvelt
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

Hendrik Schalekamp will share with us the challenges of developing embedded software for the Joule electrical vehicle. The Joule is the creation of the Cape Town based Optimal Energy.

• Challenges developing embedded software for the Joule - Hendrik Schalekamp
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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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!

• THINK-THUNK - Maarten Roode - presentation slides

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

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.

• Lessons with SOA and the way forward - Mohamed Gani (slides) and Harry Lewis (slides)

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

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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.

• Lessons learned in an Enterprise Scrum roll-out - Karen Greaves
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• Agile Requirements: Beyond Stickmen, Bubbles and Sticky Notes - Aslam Khan
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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

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