At this month's Extreme Programming San Diego (XPSD) meeting, Allan Schougaard claims he will teach us Object-Process Modeling in 5 minutes! We will also have a cornucopia of door prizes thanks to Mike Cohn, so show up before 6:10 to be part of the drawing for both of Mike's books and a seat in his ScrumMaster class in San Diego.
----- Deep user involvement is a basic tenet of Agile software development, and they say a picture is worth a thousand words, yet there are no methodologies in the mainstream today that give users and developers a shared pictorial way of describing systems. Object-Process Modeling (OPM) can do just that. In this talk I will introduce the concepts behind OPM, show examples of OPM and demonstrate software that enables simulation, code generation and natural language generation. I postulate that OPM can be learned in 5 minutes, and we will put that statement to the test during the talk. Allan Schougaard began his IT career on a ZX81/Timex Sinclair 1000 clone, then quickly moved onto DOS/Windows, Linux, NeXTSTEP and other systems. 20+ years' later, he has experience in developing professional software in fields as diverse as financial services, command and control, quality assurance and mobile/cell applications. He has used object oriented methodologies extensively since C++, and he has also worked with, as well as, taught Java and Objective-C. He has been doing Agile development before it was "officially" invented, but has been intensely involved in it for the last 5 years. Finally, Allan holds a MS degree from the University of Copenhagen in Computer Science, and a MBA in organizational development from National University in San Diego (graduation pending). The meeting will be held at SAIC on Campus Point Dr. ( http://xpsd.org/SAICDirections ) from 6-7:30 PM on Thursday June 5th. Please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that we can have a badge ready for you. If you are not a U.S. citizen, bring your passport with you to the meeting. http://xpsd.org http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/training/71-certified-scrummaster --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
