Brownfield 2010
From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group
Managing Brownfield Project Requirements
Speakers' Slides now available from this event:
Chairman's Introduction: Managing Brownfield Project Requirements - Ian Alexander
Experiences In Brownfield Requirements Engineering - Ian Ghallagher
Date
Tuesday 12th October 2010
Time
6.00-9.00pm onwards
Venue
Wilkes Room, BCS, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA
Registration
Compulsory and Free.
Register at the BCS Event Booking Site.
Details
RESG Special Free Evening Event with Refreshments
Requirements Engineering textbooks and training courses nearly always begin "from the beginning" with the capture of requirements for a wholly new product or system. But this is and has always been the exceptional case. For every extraordinary "green-field" leap of innovation, there are 20 projects that quietly advance the state of the art by developing existing systems and software. Further, even highly innovative products usually have to comply with existing interfaces and standards, or form parts of product lines with shared requirements and timelines. In short, almost every development is "brownfield". But hardly any current research focuses on brownfield development, and few published guidelines exist.
This special RESG event, the second on the topic, takes a look at what is really happening in industry, and with plenty of time for discussion, aims to identify practical guidelines for brownfield project requirements.
Two speakers from contrasting industries will kick off the discussion with introductory talks on their personal experience of working on brownfield projects. Ian Gallagher of Altran Praxis will speak about Brownfield Systems Engineering, based on his experience of complex, highly-constrained defence systems. Phil Cantor of Smartstream will speak about Managing Brownfield Financial Software, based on his experience with software products and business systems in banking and the City.
After the introductory talks, the RESG organizers Ian Alexander and Ljerka Beus-Dukic will facilitate a discussion of the issues.
Sandwiches and light refreshments will be provided. The event will close at 9pm.