Kevin Parker - Evangelist, Serena Software 
Date: May 25 - 11:00 AM  - KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Track: Open for Business
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Session Abstract:  Last year I took my Blackberry to 11 countries and had email delivered in every one. If the cell-phone industry can have global interoperability why can’t the software industry. Today’s tool-to-tool integrations are frail, fragile and frankly feeble. With no standards for interoperability and no regulator to enforce them how can the world of tool providers ever agree on a conformance protocol that will enable their tools to collaborate? The answer is the Eclipse Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) Project that has recently delivered its first version of code.

Bob Galen- Principal Consultant, RGalen Consulting Group, L.L.C., 
Date: May 25 - 12:00 PM
Track - Road to Quality
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Session Abstract:  By its very nature, the Endgame of software projects is a hostile environment. Typical dynamics include tremendous release pressure, continuous bug & requirement discovery, exhausted development teams, frenzied project managers and “crunch mode” – a PC term for overtime.

Kurt Sand, Senior Manager, Telelogic Solutions
Date: May 25 - 12:00 PM
Track - Tools and Technology
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Session Abstract:  Organizations continue to report that controlling change remains a subject critical to their success. Some improvements have been made within organizations that have adopted an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approach.  But too often the configuration and change management processes of ALM are considered to be mostly developer focused and are only applied to controlling changes to software.  But is this enough to cope with the increasing number of changes across multiple disciplines that occur during the course of today's projects? This webinar introduces the next step which is to address all forms of change related to a development project - enabling development organizations to achieve change governance for all project artifacts - requirements, design, software and tests; and uniquely to enable complete analysis of the impact of a change request on all those project artifacts before deciding to implement.

Speaker: Kurt Sand, Senior Manager, Telelogic Solutions

Scott Barber- CTO, PerfTestPlus 
Date: May 25 - 1:00 PM
Track - Road to Quality
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Session Abstract:  Imagine you are reaching the end of a major software development project. Functional testing is in its final phase and so far hasn’t revealed any ship-stopping defects. You have planned and developed your performance tests to validate the requirements you were given, and finally, the project is entering two weeks of performance requirements validation, which is anticipated to be the last activity before go-live.  Your first performance test demonstrated that at a ten-user load, the system response time increased by two orders of magnitude—meaning a page that returned in one second with one user on the system returns in one hundred seconds with ten users on the system. The second test showed that at a fifty-user load, the system fails miserably with Java exceptions prominently displayed on every requested page. But the system is intended to support 2,500 simultaneous users! 

Michael O’Rourke
Date: May 25 - 1:00 PM
Track - Tools and Technology
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Session Abstract: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is one of the industry’s most frequently used – and abused – buzzwords.  With all the hype, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction.  Michael O’Rourke, VP of Product Development for IBM Rational’s Release Engineering product offerings (formerly BuildForge) will dispel popular ALM myths and discuss five critical technical foundations for effective ALM.

Charles Stack - CEO, Flashline 
Date: May 25 - 2:00 PM
Track - Agile Business
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Session Abstract: There is nothing hollow about the promise of unprecedented agility, flexibility, and software reuse through SOA. But too many SOA initiatives fail because organizations try to make the leap to SOA without strong management of the underlying architecture. SOA is worth the effort, but it won't rescue an enterprise architecture in disarray. This presentation will explore patterns and best practices that focus on SOA as an integral part of a well-managed enterprise architecture. The presenter will examine service and architectural design, deployment, governance and management, and offer tips for getting started, keeping things on the enterprise architecture track, and measuring the results.

Bob Ventimiglia
Date: May 25 - 2:00 PM
Track - Tools and Technology
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Session Abstract:  Industry accepted definitions of SCM do not help us explain the core benefits of SCM nor do they help us focus implementations where they will do the most good. This presentation discusses the problems caused by these “accepted definitions” and improved definitions are offered. Implementation best practices resulting from over 30 years of “dirty finger nails ”experience are reviewed, including Bob’s “Follow the Files”™ approach for defining SCM process implementations.

Robert C. Martin - President of Object Mentor Inc - Founder of Agile Aliance 
Date: May 25, 2005 - 3:00 PM
Track: Agile Business
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Session Abstract: In this session Robert Martin describes all the practices of Agile Development, and how they fit into a development organization. This includes pair programming, test-driven-development, continuous integration, collective ownership, the planning game, whole-team, etc. Robert also discusses the Manifesto of the Agile Alliance, and the values and principles of agile methods like XP, Scrum, FDD, Crystal, Adaptive Software Development, etc.

Eric Long, Software Engineer, IBM
Date: May 25 - 3:00 PM
Track - Tools and Technology
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Session Abstract:  Managers and team leaders lack: 

•  Visibility across the development processes- which diminishes insight for decision making as well as decreases productivity. 

• Process automation that streamlines processes, reduces risk and avoids manual error.

Joe Farah -- President and CEO of Neuma Technology 
Date: May 25 - 4:00 PM
Track: Best Practices
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Session Abstract: The Configuration Management industry has been making slow but steady progress through the past quarter century. The focus has been on integrating additional management components (Requirements Management, Problem/Issue Tracking, etc.) while at the same time dealing with issues such as ease-of-use, change management and geographically distributed development. Addressing these issues has, for many of the traditional CM tool vendors, not been easy. Second generation architectures are maxed out.

 Steve Berczuk - Senior Software Engineer at FAST  
 Date: May 25, 2006 - 4:00 PM
 Track: Agile Business
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Session Abstract: A key aspect to delivering applications consistently is software application integration. We work with teams to do more work than a single person can accomplish, but more than one person on a project means that integration can be more difficult. It is best that your team integrates their work frequently, and deploys working software often. The challenge when doing frequent integration is avoiding bottlenecks caused by someone breaking the build. This session will show you how to balance integration and safety so that your team can identify application integration issues quickly and deliver working software more reliably.

Alan S. Koch - PMP 
Date: May 25 - 5:00 PM
Track - Road to Quality
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Session Abstract: We all know about companies who never have the time to do it right, but always have the time to do it over again! There is clearly value in doing things right in the first place. But we have only so much time and money we can invest. How much investment in quality is too much? How much is not enough? How can we determine where the optimum point is? How do we strike the right balance?