[agilist] Agile for Embedded Systems Development Workshop

Zoe Stephenson, Nov 17 (6 days ago)

Hi gang,
Some of you will no doubt remember Nancy van Schooenderwoert from a little while back. I've arranged a much more extensive 2-day hands-on workshop here in York at a very affordable price, and SMEs in the region should be able to apply for additional funding through the European Regional Development Fund. We're pretty keen to get a wide spread of businesses represented, so do please get in touch if you're interested. Thanks,

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Agile for Embedded Systems Development Workshop
A practical, hands-on two-day workshop: 15-16 December 2010
Presenter: Nancy van Schooenderwoert

This workshop will enable you to envision real, practical Agile planning for embedded systems development, including for safety-critical applications. Many of the practices that work for desktop software systems do not work well for embedded system development, and this workshop will show you:

* How Agile methods must differ when developing embedded systems
* How user stories pave the way for you to complete ALL the work you commit to in each iteration
* What Agile "story points" really are, and why you need them
* How to estimate a large Agile project several years long.

Through a project simulation exercise, you'll experience Agile estimation, release planning, and execution of two iterations. You can also submit some of your actual project requirements to be transformed into Agile user stories as a class exercise.

Each place is just Ł175 per person for the two days, including refreshments.

We currently have funding of 60% from the price of this workshop for SMEs based in Yorkshire and the Humber region. SMEs are those with 250 employees of less. Please contact Alex King on postgraduate@cs.york.ac.uk for more details on how to book a place with this funding.

You can book through our online store, or call 01904 325402 or email postgraduate@cs.york.ac.uk to ensure your place. See the event website for further information:

http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/cpd/agile/

and the store to book your places:


https://store.york.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&prodid=318&deptid=124&catid=36

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Dr Zoe Stephenson, Research Associate zoe.stephenson@cs.york.ac.uk
High-Integrity Systems Engineering Group,
Department of Computer Science, phone:01904 325424
University of York, Deramore Lane, York YO10 5GH fax:01904 325599