Cape Town SPIN

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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

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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

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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.

• If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly at first - Naomi Mansvelt
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• From Idea to "The Order" - Emile Botha
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Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 18h15
Bandwidth Barn
Cape Town

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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.

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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

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