Humane assessment by example tutorial at SI-SE 2014 on Managing technical debt (January 23, Zürich)

On January 23, I will give a half a day tutorial on Humane assessment as part of the SI-SE event on Managing technical debt (Zürich).

This tutorial is a shorter version of the Humane assessment primer course and it focuses on examples coming from real-life case studies. If you want to start the new year with a dynamic view on how to make software engineering decisions, this is a good opportunity.

The official description goes as follows:

Humane assessment is a method for making software engineering decisions. Assessing software systems to make decisions is a critical activity that needs to be approached explicitly during development. Read more about humane assessment at humane-assessment.com.

This tutorial offers an example-driven introduction in the method. It requires general technical knowledge and it is targeted both to technical managers and to software engineers.

The examples cover the essence of humane assessment:

• why assessment is economically important (hint: because you already spend some 50% of the development budget),
• how adopting crafting analysis in-house can solve the problem,
• how to integrate it in the development process,
• how to embed it in the organization, and
• how to support it via a new breed of tools (all examples are based on moosetechnology.org).