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Presentation - A case study on Software Reuse

Software development has come a long way to become an engineering discipline. However, generally speaking we are spending too much work on developing basically the same software over and over again. This is an incredible waste of human resources. To become a mature discipline we need to build software that is inherently reusable. In this talk Ivar Jacobson will describe an approach that resulted in one of the greatest success stories in software. The company that applied the approach worked in a very mature market and was able to completely wipe out all its competition for many years. The talk briefly discusses the underlying technology, but the message goes much further than that. Successful companies will start with a project-centric organization but they will in an evolutionary way move to become architecture-centric. Still all the work will be driven by customers through projects. The trick is to make this move by pull and not through push. This is a thought-provoking talk that promises not to leave the audience unaffected.  This talk is primarily directed to higher level management in larger corporations. 60 min.