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Predictive Models of Development Teams and the Systems They BuildWednesday 7th October 2015, 6:30 pm. Speaker: Robert Smallshire. Venue: Room 4.31, University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB. This event is free of charge and open to all. No registration required - just turn up. Refreshments and networking from 6:00 pm.
SynopsisIt's awkward to perform science experiments on developers, so let's simulate them instead! In 1968 Melvin Conway pointed out a seemingly inevitable symmetry between organisations and the software systems they construct. Organisations today are more fluid than 40 years ago, with short developer tenure, and frequent migration of individuals between projects and employers. In this slot we’ll examine – and perhaps collect – data on the tenure and productivity of programmers and use this to gain insight into codebases, by simulating their growth with simple stochastic models. From such models, we can make important predictions about the maintainability and long-term viability of software systems, with implications for how we approach software design, documentation and how we assemble teams. About the speaker
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