| Description: | Is the cost of maintaining your code base soaring? Have you inherited a large and unfamiliar body of source code? Does IT staff turnover force you to allow valuable domain knowledge of your software to walk out the door? Is the design of you software undocumented or drifting from its originally planned architecture? Are you embarking on an integration project? Are you experiencing problems scoping and planning modernisation projects?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions then the Controlling Software Assets half-day seminar is for you. The tasks of software maintenance and evolution support is the largest money pit for IT budgets, consuming upwards of 80% of an IT departments monitory resources. However, with recent advances in software design recovery, control and redocumentation, this should not be the case. With accurate and appropriate documentation and control infrastructures, an organization can realise significant savings in software maintenance, which will free up financial resources and human capital for important product extensions and greenfields development.
This seminar arms delegates with essential knowledge of the software maintenance problem in industry and outlines the state of the art in solutions to this dilemma. A tutorial session is delivered, demonstrating how managers and software architects can put in place a practical and achievable process and set of technologies that can document and reign in control of your software. This can prompt refactoring and a controlled evolution of you system, which ultimately leads to long term cost saving measures. A case study is also described by a current IT manager on his experience of the implementation of a documentation structure within his IT department.
The entire seminar concentrates on citing and explaining the best and most practical solutions from the state of the art research in leveraging legacy applications. This, it is hoped, will leave delegates with sufficient knowledge on the topic to begin forming a strategy of their own for better documentation and control infrastructures.
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| Audience | This Briefing is suitable for IT Managers and Directors, general Business Managers and Directors, Project/Programme Managers, software architects and software developers. All of these need a high-level view of processes and techniques that facilitate the control, redocumentation and general management of software assets. |
| Objectives | On completion of this Briefing, delegates will:
Have a new perspective on the business and technological implications of a well designed, maintained and documented code base.
Be aware of the main components of a modern software design control and documentation infrastructure as well as the means to achieve it.
Understand the potential cost saving benefits of a well documented and controlled code base.
Be able to place in context the emerging trends in software maintenance and control.
Enhance their ability to make informed business management decisions relating to the documentation, refactoring and control a software system.
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