18:15 Weds 4 Nov 2020: BCS SPA AGM + Unreasonable Architecture

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First of all, a note that the recording of the October presentation Managility, presented by Tom Gilb, will shortly be uploaded to the BCS SPA SG YouTube channel referenced at the end of this mail. The earlier October presentation, The Agile App Security game, was not recorded.

See also the call to action from September's presenter Bernie Fishpool, attached to this mail. There was a very disappointing response to this appeal following my late September mailing, so if anyone can help, please contact her directly.

BCS Software Practice Advancement specialist group

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SPA-348: AGM, followed by Unreasonable Architecture

Speaker: Kevlin Henney, Curbralan Ltd.

When: Wednesday 4th November 2020, 18:15 - 20:00 GMT

Where: GoTo Webinar

Price: Free

Booking Link: https://4novspa.eventbrite.co.uk/

Your confirmation email will provide the next step to enable you to access the webinar. 48 hours and 1 hour prior to the event reminder emails will be sent to those registered, with the non-transferable URL needed to gain access. The session will be recorded. If you do not wish to feature in the recording, please keep your microphone muted.

AGENDA

from 6:00pm: log in, wait for webinar to begin
6:15pm: Annual General Meeting (not recorded - see below)
6:30pm: presentation
8:00pm approximately: questions and discussion
8:15pm approximately: end

BCS SPA SG AGM from 18:15 to 18:30

Welcome and Introductions
Apologies for absence
Minutes of the previous AGM
Matters arising from the minutes
Chairman's report
Treasurer's report
Election of committee
AOB

PLEASE NOTE - all positions on the committee are open for election. If you wish to stand, please announce your intention to the Secretary (Soheir Ghallab - soheirg AT hotmail.com) before the meeting. We can elect up to six people including the three officers (chair, treasurer, secretary) and co-opt up to three more. Fresh ideas and a passion for advancing the practice of software are always welcome!

Synopsis

It is not enough that software works as desired and expected. We place a great deal of value on its internal quality, citing the comprehensibility of the code and the clarity of its intent as hallmarks of that quality. We separate concerns and structures in order to understand and reason about our code. Domain-driven design seeks to distil our understanding of the domain into the structuring of code, creating a correspondence between the world of the problem and the world of the solution.

But what if such modularity and modelarity does not exist in the design or in the domain? What if the failure modes of software are not based on mechanisms structured for our understanding? Whether we are talking optimising compilers, machine learning or the interactions of software with people and other systems, not everything about the software is reasonable or can be reasoned about easily.

About the presenter

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, trainer, reviewer and writer. His development interests are in programming, people and practice.

He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites, a contributor to open-source software and a member of more committees than is probably healthy (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is an author of two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

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Presentation materials from previous talks are available from the BCS

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SPA London Meetings Programme Organiser -

Immo Huneke, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. [mailto:Im...@Huneke.Co.UK]

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Forthcoming meetings: We're looking for volunteers to present or lead workshops on topics of interest to software practitioners. Please come forward with suggestions!

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