The Role of an Architect
Dennis Bottjer

Details coming soon.

Enterprise Architecture for Everyone
Steve Walker

Even small shops can benefit from Enterprise Architecture.

Procuring Enterprise Applications
James McGovern

Nowadays, modern enterprises buy applications more than they build yet there are no documented best practices in terms of procuring enterprise applications. IT executives are seeking to reduce the risk associated with investing in mission-critical enterprise applications and gain control over how vendor offerings are evaluated and selected. No longer is it acceptable to solely listen raptly to vendor sermons and emptying wallets into the collection plate. An enterprise scale approach that is agile, cost effective and repeatable is needed to be successful in the modern enterprise.

This session will discuss practical considerations surrounding evaluating enterprise applications and provide alternative approaches. Some of the topics to be discussed include:

Enterprise Security
James McGovern

Applied Software Factories: Streamlining Software Development by Exploiting Commonality
Javier Lozano

Most of the software today is still being developed by hand from scratch using labor intensive methods. Software factories are a way to introduce industrialization into software development. The purpose of this session is to explore the what, why and how of the current software factories available for the .NET platform. In particular, we will cover the Web Client, Smart Client and Web Services software factories.

Take the Design Principle Challenge
Rob Vettor

Design patterns are important as they provide proven solutions to common problems. However, there are literally hundreds of patterns from which to learn. In this session, we'll take a look at several key object oriented design principles that underpin many of the common design patterns, with the overall goal of improving the design and implementation of your code as well as your understanding of design patterns.