Popular project anti-patterns. How to make your projects fail

Software development is hard. Although none of us really thrives to make our projects fail, being succesful appears to be tough. Making a project fail however, is not that difficult. During this entertaining talk Sander Hoogendoorn drills down to each of the roles involved in software development projects, from the project manager and the architect to the developer and the tester, and gives lots of tips & tricks and patterns on how each of them can crash your projects easily. At low cost, and with high impact. This talk presents you with:

The ever-present Bob the Builder Syndrom
and for those interested in model driven architecture (MDA): the Lucky Luke Syndrom.

Sander Hoogendoorn  www.sanderhoogendoorn.com info@sanderhoogendoorn.com In his role of principal technology officer at Capgemini, Sander Hoogendoorn is concerned with the innovation of software development. He is also responsible for Capgemini’s agile software development platform, which is called the Accelerated Delivery Platform (ADP). Sander is recognized as an agile thought leader and is a certified global software engineer at Capgemini. Sander’s expertise ranges from (agile and non-agile) software development methodologies, software architecture, design patterns, modeling, UML, model driven software development, domain driven development, .Net, Java and software development tools. He coaches organizations and projects and has published numerous articles and columns in international magazines, such as OBJECTSpectrum, International Developer Magazine, DevX, Software Release Magazine, .Net Magazine, Optimize, Java Magazine, DataNews, Informatie, Database Magazine, and Tijdschrift voor IT Management. Sander is also a columnist for Software Release Magazine and SDN Magazine, and he has written books on UML and agile software development. He hopes to find the time soon to write new books on Smart (the agile methodology), smart use cases, pragmatic software architecture and patterns, project anti-patterns and perhaps even a Dummies-like book with tips on visiting conferences. Besides that Sander is a frequent speaker at Dutch and international conferences, which include OOP (Germany), JAOO (Denmark), SET (Switzerland), Javapolis (Belgium), TDWI, DW&I (UK), DevDays, J-Spring, J-Fall and Database Systems. Sander also runs seminars and workshops on UML, .Net, design patterns, software estimation, and agile software development both in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Sander is a member of Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council for .Net. He is also a member of the advisory board of @Portunity (MDA vendor), the editorial board for Software Release Magazine, the editiorial boarch for Tijdschrijft voor IT Management and member of the expert panel for Computable.