Workshops

There are many courses and workshops we conducted in the past, some workshops are already planned and some are in the conception stages. If you would like us to conduct any of these workshops exclusively for your company – please write to us.

Upcoming Workshops

• September 2008: Advanced Workshop for Practicing Software Architects
  The knowledge and Techniques today’s architect needs to conquer NFRs, deal with system complexity, estimate accurately, rapidly respond to Requests for Proposals and describe architecture to multiple audiences.
• Workshop on Building Applications for Management
  The aim of this workshop is to bring the knowledge and the techniques required for building manageable applications to software architects and programmers.
• Workshop on Carnatic Music Appreciation
  Learning to actively listening to Music is very much learning like a new language. This workshop aims brings together some very innovative and interesting methods of appreciating Carnatic Music. At present, there is not much of information, techniques or methods that help people who are interested in listening to Carnatic Music - this workshop aims to fulfill that gap.

Recent Workshops

• Workshop on Product Lines and Systems Thinking
  While there is a lot of material about Product Lines that describes basically what product lines are; there is very little material available that describes how to build a complex product line practice – especially in the context of technology services companies. The reason for the absence of such material is because putting together a Product Line practice requires solving problems of a different order magnitude compared to designing standalone systems.The implementation of a product line while decidedly beneficial in the longer term adds several magnitudes of complexity to the development of enterprise architecture and systems. A systematic approach is required to reduce the complexity and chaos of developing product lines for large scale systems that can pin their design to a very few fundamental design properties.
  
  In this 4-day course we introduce the concepts of Product Lines in detail and more uniquely introduce a platform driven design based approach to building product lines. We illustrate the dimensions of product lines within technology services organizations both in the context of product engineering customers and in the context of software development projects for enterprise customers.We then introduce a methodology based on Systems Thinking discipline for Product Lines and Platforms. We cover concepts, techniques, and principles of systems thinking and how to apply them in the context of putting together a ‘design platform’ that could be used as a vehicle for creating product line practices.
  
  The course is designed for architects and senior developers and is offered as a corporate workshop. The course follows an iterative pattern of core concepts, their application, techniques and usage illustrated with case studies. This course was recently conducted at Cognizant Technology Solutions in Bangalore.

Planned Workshops

• One day workshop on how to be a successful consultant
• Workshop on Problem-Solving and Systems Thinking
• Workshop on Quality Engineering and Design Platforms

Past Workshops

• Workshop on Building Large Scale Distributed Systems
  This was a full semister course taught at IIIT-Hyderabad along with Dr. Vasudeva Varma. We explored the application of systems thinking to software engineernig and software architecture, the semantic structures of design and problem solving. Visit the following links for:
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• Software Architecture – Do & Describe
  This workshop was conducted with Prof T.V.Prabhakar of IIT-Kanpur in Bangalore. It was a four day workshop. There were two tracks – one track dealt with various architecture methodologies, and how to describe and document architectures. The second track dealt with how to design architectures. Visit the following links for:
  Course Material
  Brochures
  Course Content