Date:    Mar 03/04/15 3:52 PM
Subject: NEJUG MEETING Next WEEK: Sustainable Software Development for Agile Teams
From:    Stevel Lintz

The next general meeting of the NEJUG is coming up next week(!!) and you are welcome to attend.
All you need do is register, show up for the meeting, relax and absorb. Come by a bit early,
and you'll have time for pizza and sodas - fully sponsored by Constant Contact (who also provide our excellent meeting facility).

Here's the standard meeting agenda:


5:00 - Doors open for pre-meeting socializing (and seat claiming)
5:30 - Pizza, enough for two slices per person
6:00 - Start of Meeting (*)
                Welcome and NEJUG Announcements
6:10 - Announcements from the floor
              upcoming events, e.g. workshops, meetings, space launches
              job announcements - real jobs from real people (not head-hunter trolling)
6:20 - Lightning Talk
6:30 - Main Talk (part 1)
7:15 - Break
7:30 - Main Talk (part 2)
8:15 - Wrap Up & Q/A
8:45 - Adjourn - Clean Up & Get Out (*)

(*) All but the start and end times are approximate, depending on the flow of the meeting.


Register now to reserve your seat

Title: Sustainable Software Development for Agile Teams
Presenter:  Alexander von Zitzewitz
Location:  Constant Contact

Date: Thu, Mar 12

Presentation Overview:

Almost every non-trivial software system suffers from the accumulation of technical debt and structural erosion.
With every new release quality metrics and developer productivity go down, while it becomes more and more difficult
to change or maintain the system. While agile processes have certainly helped to improve some aspects of software
development they do not automatically improve technical quality or encourage software craftsmanship.
This session first looks at the technical and social causes of this industry wide problem.
From there the focus will shift to possible solutions involving organizational changes,
process improvements and tool-based fully automized control of quality metrics and architecture.


About our speakers:

Alexander von Zitzewitz is a serial entrepreneur in the software business and one of the founders of hello2morrow,
an ISV specializing in static analysis tools that can enforce architecture and quality rules during development
and maintenance of software systems. He worked in the industry since the early 1980’s  and focusses on the role
of software architecture and technical quality on successful project outcomes. He moved from Germany to
Massachusetts in 2008 to develop hello2morrow’s business in North America.

Look forward to seeing you on Thu, Mar 12.



Stevel Lintz
NEJUG President