Summary
As Agile becomes more accepted, concerns from architecture groups are increasing. Traditional ways that architects engage with development groups conflict with Agile methods. This talk describes ways that Agile methods can benefit architects, addresses concerns architects express about agile, and proposes ways that architects and agile development teams can become allies.
Bio
Martin Fowler is an author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development. Rebecca Parsons has more than 20 years of application development experience in industries ranging from telecommunications to emergent internet services.
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Pouring Data on Troubled Markets
Presented by Eoin Woods on Nov 05, 2009
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/woods-bgi-apex-architecture
Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex, a new porfolio management system, to meet the challenges it faces and why BGI chose to combine mainstream, boutique and open source Java technologies, including Oracle, WebLogic, Spring, Swing, JIDE, Flux, CPLEX, MVEL and XStream, to create an architecture with some interesting variations on the standard J2EE form.
Bio
Eoin Woods is a software architect at Barclays Global Investors (BGI), responsible for a new equities portfolio management system being built for the company's well known active management group. Prior to BGI, Eoin worked in the software engineering field for over 15 years, for a number of companies including Groupe Bull, Sybase, InterTrust and UBS Investment Bank.
About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.