SPEAKER SERIES
From topics like IoT to sensors and SaaS, our speakers present on a diverse range of interests.
Upcoming Events
SoftwareGR Presents Brian McKeiver and Guest Panel Speakers: Refactor / Rebuild
Monday July 18th, 2022
5:30-7:30 PM
Start Garden, 40 Pearl St NW #200, Grand Rapids
“To rebuild or refactor. In the software industry, chances are high that at some point in a developer's career, this question will come up. Should a team continue to invest in maintenance and ongoing support for a legacy application, or should they pull the plug and start over? It's never an easy call.
To make it even harder, depending on who you ask, I can guarantee you are going to get a different answer. So, let's talk about it. Let's see if we can at least establish some best practices (like time, cost, quality) to follow in this situation.”
RECENT EVENTS
Below is our full Event Archive
2015
Git Better (Video) – Steve Smith, June 23, 2015
Design for Sensors not Screens (Video) – Joe Johnston, May 26, 2015
JavaScript Robotics? Not a bad idea. (Video) – Brian Genisio, April 28, 2015
CSS is a Mess (Video) – Jonathan Snook, March 24, 2015
Programs that Eat Programs – Michael Bernstein, February 24, 2015
Is your infrastructure working properly? (Video) – Brian Antosh, January 27, 2015
2014
Distributed teams & successful remote engineering (Video) – Avleen Vig, December 16, 2014
Practical Abstraction (Video) – Drew Colthorp, November 25, 2014
Tools for Functional Data Science – Richard Minerich, October 28, 2014
A Day in the Life of a Hardware Startup (Video) – Brett Hacklemann, September 23, 2014
Julia – a fast dynamic language for technical computing – Stefan Karpinski, May 27, 2014
Test Automation Patterns – Dorothy Graham, April 14, 2014
The Security of Information, from Past to Present – Anthony Glines, March 25, 2014
The Loyal Renegade – Brandon Keepers, February 25, 2014
2013
Building First-Class Webapps with Lineman – Justin Searls, December 10, 2013
Xamarin development tools – Mike Perry and Alex Jantz, November 19, 2013
Software GR Presents Mitchell Hashimoto – Mitchell Hashimoto, October 22, 2013
Software GR Presents Tom DeVries – Tom DeVries, September 24, 2013
LMAX Disruptor: Challenging the Status Quo of Concurrent Programming Beliefs – Carlus Henry, June 25, 2013
What should IT Professionals know about managing a Mobile Project? – Elaina Farnsworth, May 28, 2013
Visualization. From skeptic to advocate – Matt Fletcher March 26, 2013
The State of F#- Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Care – Chris Marinos, February 26, 2013
A virtual chat about accessibility – Katie Cunningham, January 22, 2013
2012
Garbage Collection In-depth – Ken Fox, December 11, 2012
Cudafy Me – Graphics Processor Programming in C# on Windows 8 – John Hauck, October 23, 2012
Effective Data Visualization – the Ideas of Edward Tufte – David Giard, September 25, 2012
Connascence Explained – Jim Weirich, May 29, 2012
Establishing what “good” means with performance continuums – Dan Klyn, April 24, 2012
Sand Piles and Software – Zach Dennis, March 27, 2012
When should you reinvent the wheel? – Andy Keller, February 28, 2012
A Developer’s Guide to the Ever-Changing Cloud – Patrick Foley, January 31, 2012
2011
iOS Development – Justin DeWind, November 29, 2011
Maintaining Technical Quality of Software – It’s the Architecture, Stupid! – Alexander von Zitzewitz, October 11, 2011
Lean Startups & Customer development – Moses Hohman, Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Lightweight Project Tracking with Burn Up Charts – Carl Erickson & Michael Marsiglia, June 28, 2011
10 Years in Startup Land – William Pietri, May 18, 2011
Agile software development for Medical Devices – J.R. Jenks, April 26, 2011
The D Programming Language – Walter Bright, March 22, 2011
OSS tools for embedded development: Unity, Ceedling, CMock, & CException – Greg Williams & Mike Karlesky February 22, 2011
Joe Stump – January 25, 2011
2010
The Audience Experience and Other Frontiers – Chris McMahon, October 26, 2010
The Agile Programming Manager - Organizational Leadership in the Value Driven Enterprise – Dennis Stevens, December 14, 2010
Stop Being an Idiot – Steve Smith, September 28, 2010
Google AppEngine::DataStore – Ryan Montgomery, May 25, 2010
"Becoming an IT Linchpin" – Bob Walsh, 47 Hats, April 27, 2010
"JRuby in 2010: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going" – Charles Oliver Nutter, Engineyard, March 23, 2010
"Secure Bit: Hardware Buffer-overflow Prevention" – Dr. Richard Enbody, Michigan State University, February 23, 2010
Version Control – Eric Sink, January 26, 2010
2009
"Creative Process as Seen Through Creative Language" – Jon Wettersten, IDEO
"Software Craftsmanship: Raising the Bar of Professional Software Development" – Doug Bradbury, 8th Light
Summer Networking Session #3 – HopCat
Summer Networking Session #2 – Bar Divani
Summer Networking Session #1 – The Green Well
"jQuery" – Karl Swedberg, Fusionary Media
"Software Disasters and Lessons Learned" – Jack Ganssle, The Ganssle Group
"What's the right level of testing?" And "Pair Parody" – Tyler Jennings, Andy Maleh & Jake Scruggs, Obtivia
"UE and Agile: Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together" – Lane Halley, Cooper
Extreme Interviewing: Finding the Right People for Your Agile Team – Lisamarie Babik
2008
"The Fall and Rise of Dynamic Languages" – Rick DeNatale, Near Time, Inc.
"Ruby on Rails Testing" – Mike Swieton, Atomic Object
Group Therapy – XPWM Community
Pulling Your Head Out of Your Budget – Mental Re-tooling for Agile Project Management – David Christiansen
“Agile Software Development and UI Design: a Match made in Heaven?” – Robert Biddle, Carleton University
"From Eclipse to Jazz" – Paul Vanderlei, IBM
2007
"Interaction-Testing: Beyond Classical Unit Testing" – Scott Miller, Atomic Object
October XPwm: Summer Conference Reprise – Atomic Object Developers
"When Will Microsoft Go Out of Business?" – Ken Schwaber, Advanced Development Methods, Inc
An Open Space Meeting - "Increasing Agility" – Facilitated by Dave Limbaugh
You’re Kidding. It Does WHAT in Production ! ? ! – Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software
"Agile in Large, Inelastic Organizations" – John J. Cunningham, Band XI International
"Perils and Pitfalls of Agile Adoption" – Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
"Introduction to Scrum" – Doug Shimp, 3Back
"Agile Development in the US Army Research Arm" – Mark Salamango, US Army
2006
"Don't Follow the Lemmings" – Chad Fowler
"Presenter First: Organizing complex GUI applications for TDD" – Scott Miller, Atomic Object
“Making the Date” and Q&A – Ron Jeffries, Independent Consultant
"Agile Database Techniques: Data Doesn't Have To Be A Four-Letter Word Anymore" – Scott Ambler
"Introduction to Agile + Story Driven Development" – Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
2005
"Magic Pixie Dust" + "Systir Test Framework" – Matt Heusser, Karlin Fox
"Preventing Crisis: Project Estimation and Tracking That Works" – Andy Lester
Reprise of the Agile 2005 Denver Conference – Carl Erickson and Panelists
“The Top Six Reasons Software Projects Fail and How to Avoid Them” – Rich Sheridan, Menlo Institute
"Analytical School of Testing" and "All-Pairs: a Closer Look" – Paul Jorgensen, Grand Valley State University
"Two Futures of Software Testing" – Michael Bolton, DevelopSense
"Agile Requirements Gathering" – Dave Limbaugh, Priority Health
"Agile Overview and Acceptance Testing with Fitnesse" – Robert Martin, Object Mentor
2004
"Unit Testing Legacy Code" – Kevin Bradtke and Tom Kubit, Gene Codes Forensics
"Crystal Clear – a human powered methodology for small teams” and “Testing web applications with Ruby-based tools” – Kevin Hykin, Burke Porter Machinery, & Michael Swieton, Atomic Object
“Implications of Delivering Software Early and Often” and “Test Driven Development: Demonstration and Discussion” – Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson
"Better Living through Extreme Programming" – Carl Erickson, Atomic Object
"QA Tester Role" and "Unit Testing PHP" – Bo Roop, X-Rite (part 1) & Atomic Object Personnel (part 2)
"The Planning Game: Living by the Big Board" – Dave Limbaugh
"The Planning Game and Open Source Test Tools" – Carl Erickson, Atomic Object