Righting Software Day with Juval Löwy

Righting Software - A Method for System and Project Design

The software industry is in a deep crisis. Many projects suffer from low quality, schedule slips and cost overrun. Systems are unmaintainable, complex and cannot handle change. It is possible to develop great software systems, and Juval Lowy has helped hundreds of companies around the world meet their commitments. The key is developing software systems along engineering principles. This workshop presents Juval's approach for software design: designing the system and the project to build it. You will learn how to mechanize design, how to do it quickly and effectively. With system design Juval will demonstrate how to decompose a system into smaller building blocks, or services. This is where the vast majority of architects fail-- doing the exact opposite of the right thing. With project design Juval will show a continuous design effort flowing from the architecture including calculating the planned duration, cost, and risk and devising several good execution options. Both parts complement each other: you cannot design the project without the architecture, and it is pointless to design a system that you cannot build, or that your team will fail to execute on. This workshop is likely to change the rest of your career.