Distinguished Lecture: Dr Ivar Jacobson

UCL Computer Science invites you to a Distinguished Lecture with Dr Ivar Jacobson: '50 years of software engineering, so now what?'

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Abstract:

The term software engineering was coined 50+ years ago at a meeting with the leaders in the world in software development. Where are we now? To quote Winston Churchill: “This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, maybe it is the end of the beginning”.
We are more than 20 million software developers on the planet, with a large number of methods to develop software. However, the most successful recipe for success is a method that focuses on hiring the most brilliant people in the world and empowering them to create wonders. 50 years ago, Ericsson in Sweden did that. Now Apple, Google, Amazon, etc. do that.
What about the rest of the world? – banks, insurance, airlines, defense, telecom, automotive, etc. How can we get these industries to be more innovative and develop better software, faster, cheaper and with happier customers? How can we do that given that the state of the art of our discipline is in such a chaos, characterized by the multitude of competing methods out there?
It starts with education, but it doesn’t end there. It goes on to dramatically change the way we work with methods, how we teach, learn, change, and in particular use them. I will introduce Essence: a new way of thinking that promises many things, never before known to software engineering or system engineering, but already being adopted by many, for instance for Scrum and Disciplined Agile. I will also present a new app, Essence in Practice, which helps teams and team members to learn, adopt and apply practices and methods and while using it they will get Live Guidance™.

A fresh introduction to modern software engineering will be delivered.

Dr Ivar Jacobson

Ivar Jacobson International

Dr. Ivar Jacobson received his Ph.D. in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, was rewarded the Gustaf Dalén medal from Chalmers in 2003, and made an honorary doctor at San Martin de Porres University, Peru, in 2009.

Ivar has both an academic and an industrial career.

He has authored ten books, published more than a hundred papers and he is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences around the world

Ivar is a father of components and component architecture, work that was adopted by Ericsson and resulted in the greatest commercial success story ever in the history of Sweden, and it still is. He is the father of use cases and Objectory, which, after the acquisition of Rational Software in 1995, resulted in the Rational Unified Process, a widely adopted method. He is also one of the three original developers of the Unified Modelling Language. But all this is history. Ivar founded his current company, Ivar Jacobson International, which since 2004 has been focused on using methods and tools in a smart, superlight and agile way. This work resulted in that Ivar became a founder and a leader of a worldwide network, SEMAT, which has the mission to revolutionize software development based on a kernel of software engineering. The kernel has been realized as a formal OMG standard called Essence.