Brownfield 2010
From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group
Managing Brownfield Project Requirements
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.
If you'd like to share you thoughts on this event:
Looking forward to the event. I have been involved with maybe 50 projects and on reflection only 2 or 3 clould be classed as "greenfield"
A small point but the final sentence in your advert has a missing word.
It should say "If you'd LIKE to share you thoughts on this event:"
I'd be willing to speak about a Semantic Normal Form that can help considerably when dealing with brownfield site projects. The SNF enables one to analyse the precise meanings of data in the systems related to the project and to bridge to or from them. The results cumulatively reduce the difficulties caused by future problems of this kind.
Mike: It should be a good event, many an interesting debate was had when we ran it for the first time last year. Thanks for letting us know about the typo. Corrected now :)
Ronald: I get the feeling that the speakers slots have been filled, but I'll pass you on to the organisers Ian and Ljerka. In either case much of the event will be discussion based and Semantic Normal Forms would make a good topic.
I'm a new member of the RESG and can't see anywhere to register - do I need to or just turn up? Also can non members attend? I have a colleague who'd like to but she's not a bcs or resg member. Many thanks
There was previously no registration, but it is now compulsory as we are going to be using a room at the BCS HQ.
There is a registration link now in the text above.