=============================================================

Creating Software Like a Band Plays Jazz: The Future of Software Delivery

A conversation with Visionaries: Grady Booch & Erich Gamma

Broadcast date: Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Duration: One hour

Overview:
The workforce of the future is changing, becoming increasingly organizationally and globally distributed, fluid and dynamic. And nowhere is this shift more visible than in the domain of software delivery, where business and technical expertise is increasingly distributed across town or around the world. Join us as two IBM luminaries, renowned software futurist Grady Booch and Eclipse luminary Erich Gamma, explore IBM's vision of the future and what IBM is doing to realize this vision with the Jazz project and Rational Team Concert.

Featured Speakers:


Grady Booch, IBM Fellow
Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the effectiveness of software developers worldwide. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and continues to serve in that capacity within IBM. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE).


Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Jazz Technical Lead
Erich has worked with IBM For nearly two decades and has been at the forefront of innovation in software development. Perhaps best known as the co-author of the landmark book "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", Erich has collaborated, with Kent Beck, to develop JUnit, the de facto standard in terms of unit testing tools for Java. He was the original lead of the Eclipse Java Development tools (JDT) and was on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project. Erich is currently an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM Rational Zurich Research Lab in Zurich, Switzerland.