SATURN 2015 Presentations
Presentations from the program of SATURN 2015 (April 27-30, 2015, in Baltimore, Maryland)
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Software Engineering Institute
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In 2015, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference celebrated its 11th year. Each year, SATURN attracts an international audience of practicing software architects, industry thought leaders, developers, technical managers, and researchers to share ideas, insights, and experience about effective architecture-centric practices for developing and maintaining software-intensive systems. Browse slide presentations from SATURN 2015 below.
ADD 3.0: Rethinking Drivers and Decisions in the Design Process
April 2015
This tutorial introduces ADD 3.0, explains the key changes that made to its previous version, and illustrates the design method with a detailed case study.
Agilizing the Architecture Department
April 2015
This presentation reports experiences implementing Risk- and Cost-Driven Architecture (RCDA) at a major European transportation infrastructure organization.
A Partner Is Good to Have, but Difficult to Be
April 2015
This workshop illustrates the importance of partnering skills in the context of software architecture for increasing stakeholders' engagement and trust.
Architecting Hybrid Cloud Solutions with Watson Developer Cloud
April 2015
This presentation describes hybrid cloud solutions created using IBM's Watson cognitive services, architectural patterns and codes, and pros and cons of the hybrid approach.
Architecting Public-Facing Website Software for High Concurrent User Load
April 2015
This session covers lessons learned by analyzing the problems of an existing public-facing website and developing enterprise architectural patterns to solve them.
Cost-Benefit Analysis in Technical Debt Reduction
April 2015
This presentation proposes an approach proven by a real-world case study using quality attribute scenarios to analyze technical debt and cost-benefit analysis to reduce it.
Design Thinking Is for You
April 2015
User Experience and Design is no longer an isolated function or a step in the software development process but a way of working that puts users at the center.
DevOps Essentials for Software Architects
April 2015
DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and placing that change into normal production, while ensuring high quality.
Does Your Cloud Solution Look Like a Mushroom?
April 2015
This presentation covers high-level ideas about cloud solutions, pros and cons about "The Cloud," security issues, and whether to use the cloud or build infrastructure.
Enterprise Applications Health Improvement Program
April 2015
This presentation introduces a program called the Application Wellness Clinic that organizations can use to strengthen an application's stability and longevity.
Exploiting Fast and Slow Thinking
April 2015
In this session, Rebecca Wirf discusses how fast and slow thinking affects your decision making.
From Monolith to Microservices: A Leadership Perspective on Legacy Application Modernization
April 2015
This talk shares leadership challenges of modernizing legacy systems, illustrated by a 20-year-old custom-made client/server application with 3.5 million lines of code.
Improving Architectural Refactoring Using Kanban and the Mikado Method
April 2015
This presentation covers the Mikado Method and how it works, explores the issues and the Kanban backlog, and overviews why Kanban a good fit for maintenance.
Injection, Modularity, and Testing: An Architecturally Interesting Intersection
April 2015
Dependency injection, code modularity, and testing often seem like staid, even boring, topics, but there are surprises when you put all three together.
Introduction to Architecture-Centric Design Thinking
April 2015
This talk covers the foundation of user-focused design theory and describes practical methods for applying design thinking in the context of software architecture.
Keeping the Beat: Rhythm and Trust in Architecture
April 2015
This presentation argues that rhythm is important for establishing trust in architecture and architects and presents ideas for establishing an effective rhythm.
Keynote: Progress Toward an Engineering Discipline of Software
April 2015
Mary Shaw discusses the evolution of software engineering, drawing on civil engineering and software architecture for examples that show the progressive codification of informal knowledge toward rigorous models and tools.
Leading Change: Engaging Critical Stakeholders for Project Success
April 2015
Software architects are change leaders, but first they must engage stakeholders. This talk presents a three-step process for stakeholder engagement.
Living a Nightmare, Dreaming a Dream: A Drupal Deployment Dilemma
April 2015
This talk presents a deployment modernization that involved organizational changes, motivating key individuals, and introducing new development practices and technologies.
Locating the Architectural Roots of Technical Debt
April 2015
This talk presents a case study of identifying architecture debts in a large-scale industrial software project by modeling software architecture as design rule spaces.
Making Better Architectural Choices with the Architecture Valuation Framework
April 2015
This talk discusses the Architecture Valuation Framework, the approach to implementing it, and its applicability to the target architecture definition process.
Maturing Agile Teams and Driving Quality Through Architecture Principles
April 2015
This experience report shares insights from an effort to standardize on QA practices and tools with development teams and a customer who were new to agile development.
Maximize Your Business Impact as an Architect
April 2015
This presentation covers key principles by which architects can prioritize architectural concerns and decisions based on economic arguments.
My Silver Toolbox
April 2015
Six presenters discuss the concept of a Silver Toolbox, approaches to adopting and teaching software engineering methods, and what it takes to be a software architect.
Never Again Offline?! Experiences in the Outstanding Role of Data in a Large-Scale Mobile App Ecosystem
April 2015
This presentation shares experiences from an innovation project of John Deere and Fraunhofer IESE to develop a mobile app ecosystem with its own cloud backend.
Open Medical Record System Plus (OpenMRS+): OpenMRS for Non-Communicable Diseases
April 2015
This presentation describes the role of the Open-Source Medical Record System in Rwandan health care for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis services and how to expand its use.
Open Systems Architecture: Progress and Challenges (SATURN 2015)
April 2015
This panel discussion focuses on open systems architecture, the progress made so far, the remaining challenges, and strategies for addressing those challenges.
Programming in the 1960s: A Personal History
April 2015
This talk is for those who want to visit the computer museum but haven't yet had the time. Len Bass describes what life was like for programmers in the 1960s.
QA to AQ: Shifting from Quality Assurance to Agile Quality
April 2015
This presentation shows how to interject quality specification, design, and testing efforts into a software architecture project and be more agile about it.
Quality Requirements on a Shoestring
April 2015
This talk presents an extension of the Mini-Quality Attribute Workshop (mini-QAW) format that can be used as a tool for smaller, low-risk, or iterative projects.
Smart Decisions: An Architecture Design Game
April 2015
This presentation teaches the challenging process of designing an architecture for a Big Data Analytics System using a game called Smart Decisions.
Software Architecture as Code
April 2015
This session looks at how to resolve the conflict between software architecture and code through architecturally evident coding styles and architecture models as code.
Sustainably Supporting Data Variability
April 2015
A challenge in building complex, data-intensive systems is how to sustainably support data variation, schema, and feature evolution. Three speakers share experiences.
Systems Characterization: An Approach to Modernizing Disparate Legacy Systems
April 2015
This talk presents a systems architecture view for finding the most cost-effective means to update large-scale systems with fluctuating operational requirements.
Systems of Action: A Stack Model for Capability Classification
April 2015
Statoil has studied how to best develop systems of action. This talk presents a stack model defining a capability hierarchy used to position applicable technologies.
Taming Big Balls of Mud with Agile, Diligence, and Hard Work
April 2015
This session examines the paradoxes that underlie Big Ball of Mud (BBoM) architectures, what causes them, why they are so prominent, and how to keep code clean.
The Architectural Analysis for Security (AAFS) Method
April 2015
This talk proposes several ways to evaluate the security readiness of an architecture: vulnerability-, tactics-, and pattern-based architectural analysis techniques.
The Business Side of a Software Architect
April 2015
A software architects' ability to understand the business environment and identify lack of alignment between software requirements and business drivers is essential.
The Value of Architecture and Architects
April 2015
In this presentation, Shrikant Palkar of Costco Wholesale reviews how architects can achieve value through both design decisions and strategic involvement.
Using Hazard Analysis to Make Early Architecture Decisions for an Autonomous Automotive Application
April 2015
This session shows how use cases, activity diagrams, and overview function block diagrams can be defined early and act as input to a preliminary hazard analysis, which in turn provides valuable input to early decisions about partitioning and redundancy.
Understanding Quality Goals
April 2015
The software architect's challenge is to help developers understand quality attributes for project needs. Quality Assumption Reviews help meet this challenge.
What Coderetreats Have Taught Us About Design
April 2015
This talk presents our story of using coderetreats at IBM to share knowledge, build teams, and foster a sense of craftsmanship across organizational boundaries.
When and Where to Apply the Family of Architecture-Centric Methods
April 2015
This talk covers the family of architecture-centric methods that we have developed and used with DoD and commercial customers to clarify requirements and identify risks.
Why They Just Don't Get It: Communicating Architecture to Business Stakeholders
April 2015
This talk presents techniques for creating architecture visualizations that are attractive, informative, and easy for nontechnical audiences to understand.