Good morning! Tomorrow is our first meeting of the new year, which, incidentally, is the JUG's third anniversary, a pretty significan milestone. The speakers for tomorrow's sessions will be Rod Coffin from Semantra and Don McGreal from Learning Solutions for Improving Enterprises. They will be discussing how to "Build the Right System with Test Driven Requirements:"
<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">The software profession faces many challenges including our general
approach to requirements. A high percentage of implemented
functionality is seldom used and requirement deficiencies are
frequented cited among the top five reasons for project failure. How
can we as software professionals and craftsmen know that we are
producing the most valuable system at just the right time for our
users? The concept of "pull" from lean manufacturing, in combination
with agile values and practices, provides a powerful guide for how we
can improve our profession by allowing the incremental specification of
functionality to "pull" the creation of working software. In this
workshop participants will experience how a real working system can be
constructed from the ground up through the definition of executable
specifications. In a cycle comparable to that of Test Driven
Development participants will see how, through a series of
micro-iterations, requirements can pull the creation of executable
specifications, integration tests, unit tests, and production code.<br></div><br>If you plan on attending, it would help us out greatly if you were to register, as that will help us get a better estimate on how much food to order:
<br><br>Lunch: <a href="http://okcjug.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=3">http://okcjug.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=3</a><br>Evening: <a href="http://okcjug.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=4">
http://okcjug.org/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=4</a><br><br>We would like to thank <a href="http://valtech.com/">Valtech</a> for sponsoring this month's sessions.<br><br>For complete information on tomorrow's meeting, you can find the details on the OKC JUG front page, or by clicking here:
<a href="http://okcjug.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/">http://okcjug.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/</a><br><br>We hope to see you all tomorrow!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jason Lee, SCJP<br>Software Architect -- Objectstream, Inc.
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