Event Sourced Project Management: Build Better Products Faster

Successfully architecting digital products and software based systems has almost nothing to do with technology. Communication and people are everything.

Code is a cultural artefact.

In this business-friendly session, Robert, Adam and Alexandra from Adaptech Solutions (https://adaptechsolutions.net/) will introduce some techniques which, when used in combination, address many of the problems which make delivering digital based products time consuming, unpredictable and more expensive than it needs to be. They do this by putting business objectives, people and the way they actually work and communicate first:

• Event storming is a requirements gathering technique which keeps the focus on what needs to happen in the system in order to meet business objectives without getting distracted by technical detail.

• Command query responsibility segregation (CQRS) and event sourcing are software architecture patterns. We will look at them from an entirely non-technical perspective. How (and why) do they affect the options available to project- and product managers when delivering software? How can this be leveraged to achieve more, faster?

• War stories! We've been doing this for a long time. What worked, what didn't, pitfalls, opportunities.

See you there at Mobify's brand new office!!

Event details

6:00–6:30 PM: Chat and mingle with new friends

6:30–7:15 PM: Van DPM announcements and Robert Reppel

7:15–7:45 PM: Q&A

7:45–8:00 PM: Goodbyes and head to Kingston Taphouse for drinks

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Presenters:

Robert Reppel - Adaptech (https://adaptechsolutions.net/) Partner and Director of Engineering

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Robert Reppel has written his first commercial software applications more than 25 years ago. He has seen many since, as developer, architect, entrepreneur, development manager and agile practitioner, for companies from startups to large multinationals. His main interest is the evolution of software solutions over time and the cultures and organizational structures which shape them. He specializes in helping organizations to innovate and achieve faster turnaround for new product development while leveraging or replacing legacy assets.

Adam Dymitruk - Founder and CTO

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As a passionate technologist, Adam has worked in the field for a few decades in numerous roles. He has contributed to the scaling approaches in CQRS and Event Sourcing by introducing PAXOS to the consistency strategy in 2008. In 2011-2012, he helped Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team introduce modern open-source tooling to the CQRS Journey book project. He has inspired organisations to excel in approaches to software in modern workflows, inspired a culture of learning and instilled a modern approach to software architecture. A subscriber to the idea that Conway’s Law is something that can be taken advantage of instead of something organisations fall victim to, he is able to put the right teams together, using the right future-proof technologies to get software written with the highest quality at lower costs and timelines.

Alexandra Moxin - Business Development Manager

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Alexandra has been managing software projects for over a decade and brings an understanding of how event based system implementations impact organisations. She is a student of the patterns in DDD/CQRS/ES and how they apply to Conway's Law. Alexandra is a co-host of the weekly Vancouver Tech Podcast where she reviews all meetups in the area and interviews people in the development community.

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Robert Zalaudek

Partner and Director of Business Development

Robert is a technology entrepreneur and start-up executive with extensive senior level sales and relationship management experience. He co-founded and ran a software company in the wireless networking space for 3 years and then joined the management team of a 35-person VoIP start-up. He’s been in technology recruitment since 2006 and in 2011 founded the Pearl Fisher Group, a headhunting firm focused on providing software developers and IT executives to fast-growing companies

POST MEETUP DRINKS at the Kingston Taphouse - 755 Richards Street.