DePaul University, CTI Building
Egan Urban Center (CTI room 9102)
243 S. Wabash
Chicago, Illinois 60604

David Anderson is the author of "Agile Management for Software Engineering" Prentice Hall PTR, September 2003) and its companion website (with numerous articles, presentations and blog entries) at <www.agilemanagement.net>. He is an independent consultant with VA Systems Professional Services (www.vasps.com) and has 22 years experience in the software-development business.

Until April 2004, he held the position of Director of Emerging Technology at 4thpass Inc - a Motorola subsidiary in Seattle, WA. David was a member of the team that created the agile software development method known as Feature Driven Development in Singapore between 1997 and 1999. David introduced FDD at Sprintpcs.com, the Internet business unit of Sprint PCS in Kansas City, MO, where he reported to John Yuzdepski, VP & GM. He was one of a core team of 8 senior managers and junior execs who created the technical product offer for the launch of PCS Vision. He also launched the Sprint Application Developer program for wireless data applications in October 2001. David had brief spells working as a consultant for Nokia USA in Irving TX, and Eircell in Dublin Ireland. Earlier in his career he held managerial positions in two startups in the UK - Rombo, a video imaging company - and MDi Systems, a document imaging company. David holds a degree in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

Topic - "Architecture at the heart of Agile Quality Assurance -a brief history of The Coad Method and FDD"

The talk will discuss how Peter Coad deeply believed in OO architecture and its promise of re-use to enable delivery of frequent, tangible, working results and how The Coad Method evolved through the 1990's and eventually morphed into Feature Driven Development. We will then hear why Coad's Domain Modeling in Color technique is at the heart of FDD's quality assurance mechanisms and how it drives sustained velocity on larger projects. Along the way, we will note some observations on FDD and the Six Sigma methodology. 

In the remaining time, David will run an "Improv Modeling" session to show the power of color modeling as a true agile modeling technique. David says: "Last time I did this we modeling bee keeping, honey harvesting, and bee hive rental. It was good fun. The audience suggests the topics and the change requests on the fly."