Presentations & master-classes

Interface Designer Tools in the Production IT-Cycle

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How State IT Industry Politics Matches Industry Role & Goals in Digital Transformation

8 Counterintuitive Answers about User Research

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University Role in IT Specialists Training

Education is a continuous process. All participants of the conference studied, studying now and will continue to study. An important milestone for anyone is the basic education in their professional area (which is in most cases is university), so we invite all participants to the panel…

Technical writer 2.0

During the last year I’ve talked a lot to IT managers and my fellow technical writers. Turns out that both sides often don’t know how a writer can be useful to the business, except just writing the docs. It hurts both sides: business has unresolved tasks and writers make less money…

Forbidden knowledge: what a developer can reuse

Based on his many years of experience assisting with software product development and acquisition projects, practical recommendations will be given to developers on what shouldn’t be done in terms of borrowing knowledge and code.

Target audience: The presentation will be of interest to IT…

Paranoid Service Worker

We can definitely say that the full potential of Service Worker technology has not yet been revealed. The range their possibilities is much more than just smart cache, and this tech talk will be dedicated to an unusual approach of its usage.

Optimizing cluster interconnect with InfiniBand RDMA shown by updating MySQL Cluster

This presentation describes expirience of our command in modifying MySQL Cluster to support IniniBand RDMA in nodes commutications. As an alternative view to horizontal scaling solution we developed working prototype that uses native RDMA interface which showed 25% performance increase (on used…

We have blind member in our team. How we adjusted to associated challenges?

Last year one of our team members completely lost his vision.

Since then he relies on screen readers and voice calls for all project communication.

Since charts and graphs are not an option team come up with rules for text based communications and standards used for…

System design as a thinking process

At first glance, an educated person engaged in the design and development of it systems, knows all about the practical side of thinking. In reality, even specialists with extensive experience make systematic mistakes. And when it comes to the team process, the situation worsens many…

Architectural principles for making decisions for the development, acquisition and use of SW products

Often the guidelines of the developer, supplier, purchaser and user SW-product are inconsistent, even worse, if they contradict each other. Possible shortcomings and damages, as well as their sources are given on examples of known systems and companies. Basic architectural approach helps to…

“Silver bullet” for monitoring of multicomponent applications built on JVM or other platforms

This presentation overviews tools and approaches for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Business Transactions Monitoring (BTM) of large multicomponent systems. The main goals of the talk are to raise awareness of an audience about a variety of possible solutions for monitoring tasks as…

Value proposition development on the example of «Lyubimyy Kray»

In our company CBT approaches are used, one of the tools is creation of value proposition. I must say that value propositions imply a lot of work of all departments, as it is not a slogan but concrete and measurable factors which are manifested in everyday work. During the presentation I will…

DevOps philosophy in hiring and leading IT-teams

Report-recommendation. Several steps and techniques that will help TeamLeads and CTO make the work of HR specialists more effective.

The manufacturability of the architecture

It projects inherit 2 problems of known types of architectures A and V of classification of VATI production systems. On the one hand, the limitation will always be at the beginning of the project in the development of the project architecture. On the other hand, it will always be at the end of…

Managing requirement specification practises

My talk is about management of requirements specification practices — tools and notations for creating artifacts, understandable to different participants of the development; how to choose from a variety of tools the ones that suitable for your project. I will show how SEMAT Essence can help us…

Distributed leadership and SysArchi

How stakeholder concept guides complex organization activities? Definition of leadership through stakeholders.

What is valuable for developers and what your competitors are offering: the results of the research

Money, projects and training are not the only values ​​for which employees choose a company.

If you wondered how to compete with other companies for employees and how to attract new people, you will be interested in the results of the study of value propositions of IT companies in…

A Briefer History of Cryptoanarchy

The topic is largely unsolved, but definitely worth attention. On every corner now selling the “Blockchain”, the cryptocurrency courses are broadcast along with the oil price and the dollar… The audience will learn what really was behind all this, what drove people, whose…

Methodology per project stage. Tips and tricks.

I’ll speak about reasons, pros and cons of using different development methodologies (from Waterfall to Kanban) on different project stages. Basing on a payment system development project I’ll focus on changing methodologies, choosing the most appropriate one, and other practices,…

Crowd-teaching as the basis of digital transformation of software engineers education system

The need for software developers is growing rapidly and it is already clear that every year the existing system of training is lagging behind, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

The report proposes to consider the approach to the transformation of the education ecosystem, developed…

Comparison of Big Data solution to process large amount of biomedical data

In this report we compare AWS Redshift, Greenplum, CitusDB, Druid, ClickHouse, CrateDB, PrestoDB, Apache Drill, Dremio, Apache HAWQ and its strength and weak.

The hard life of a highly qualified professional

The seller’s dream is to sell as expensive as possible. The buyer’s dream is to buy as cheap as possible. How to make them both happy? Is it possible that highly qualified professionals could receive as much for their work as they deserve, and employers would pay for their services…

The productive model of coherent text

The presentation gives an idea of transformation of structured subject-related data to smooth-flowing coherent text. The transformation is based on a logical model that authors designed in order to explain what exactly makes text coherent. The model is implemented in a software tool that allows…

How to use Russian standards GOST 19 and 34 in modern software development

My talk will guide you on how to apply Russian standards GOST 19 and 34 on your project: why you may need them, which part of them is obviously outdated and which one is still valuable, how to use widely accepted artifacts and techniques along with GOST documentation.

Business Intelligence in microservice architecture

Talk will cover differences in BI development while entire compay goes to microservice arhitecture. I will cover some aspects of data warehouse and data mart development, also covering trands in this area wich become actual in our case.

Life Without Office: How to Manage a Remote Team

This report is based on 7+ years of my experience in project management in distributed and remote teams (working on the development of technical documentation and the software in this field).

We will discuss the pros and cons of remote work from different perspectives: management and…

OOP and FP in Mainstream Programming: Finding Balance with C# and F#

C# and F# manage to comprise the two paradigms seemingly in conflict with each other on a very deep level. How do we make it work for us? Do we pick a side or do we combine the principles from both worlds into a higher-level vision? The presentation focuses on real life enterprise application…

Development native and hybrid applications for Sailfish Mobile OS RUS

History of creation and prospects of the mobile operating system Sailfish Mobile OS RUS.
Technological heritage and architecture of the platform.

The Qt framework is the main tool for developing native applications.

Cross-platform development and Sailfish

Develop…

The use of sabotage analysis for improving organizational processes

The sabotage analysis (diversionary analysis) is a method of improving technological processes, proposed by the future TRIZ Master B.L. Zlotin in the late 70-s of the last century. In the US and Western Europe, it is known under the brand Anticipatory Failure Determination (AFD) and is…

DevOps in enterprise, is it possible?

Most enterprise companies have been started DevOps transformation. I will share with you my thoughts about the pros and cons of this and try to make the question is it possible to start DevOps in an enterprise environment?

Relevant way of developing needs in the technology of processing dig data in bioinformatics

Bioinformatics happens to be one the fastest growing fields in terms of generating big data while still retaining a set of outdated software tools to deal with the enormous volume of data it produces. In this case, common sense does not support the situation with law of supply and demand as this…

Model-Based System Engineering in Practice: Document Generation – MegaM@Rt Project Experience

MegaM@Rt2 project is a collaborative initiative of the ECSEL Joint Undertaking under Horizon 2020 EU programme. The project regroups 26 partners from 6 different European countries who jointly address challenges of engineering modern cyber-physical systems by using model-based engineering…

Sharing roles of analyst and developer: application of BDD in a startup

If developers work in a startup, they most likely have to work with unclear requirements. And there is no dedicated analyst role in the team for sure. So they have to find out the details about each feature themselves. I will share my own experience of getting a feature description when you are…

How to improve relationships with superiors, colleagues and subordinates, managing your own emotional condition through internal changes

Communication with difficult people, as well as crucial conversations, are one of the main sources of stress. This report covers practices of restoring your emotional condition and correcting ineffective mastered response patterns to people’s actions and words using internal self-changes leading…

Automagic organization in distributes project sdCloud

This presentation describing experience of international research project called sdCloud in building and maintaining distributed development team and our approach in automation process that allows to provide regular releases of our platform to international research communities. Key focus of the…

Research of a reader emotional response

Affordable costs of BCI devices open new engine for UX research. This presentation will show hands-on experience of using an OpenBCI EEG interface to explore a person’s emotional response while reading texts.

Master-class. Growing team trust

Learn to use the Team Trust Canvas methodology to strengthen your team performance.

During the workshop, participants will learn which factors are essential for trust and how to
use this new capacity to create an environment that brings the best of people.

Applying Topic Segmentation to Document-Level Information Retrieval

In the present paper we discuss how text segmentation could be applied in the information retrieval domain. We assume that topic text segmentation allows one to better model text structure and therefore language itself, which influences the quality of text representation. We test the initial…

“DeepDive” with experts: share to improve

We have invented and created an approach, which allows experts from different projects to come to another project, explore working mode, principles, share experience, improve project processes and make a project more effective. It’s not even an audit…

In my report I will explain what…

Implementation of DPC on Elbrus: approaches and results

Practical experience of finishing and implementation of a software of a big state information system for functioning on a domestic hardware platform.

Master-class. Corporate start-ups

The speech is dedicated to a corporate startups. That means the projects that are initiated and developed by the employees of the company. We will cover the themes, connected with risks, contradictions which can appear during the enteral startups implementation.

LeanKanban approach to project planning and forecasting

LeanKanban’s approach is based on a probabilistic approach to project, tasks, initiatives and improvements planning and forecasting. During my session, I will introduce this approach: identification of work item types, classes of service and defining SLAs.

Target audience: Project…

Think globally, work locally: distributed & remote teams in the program

Nowadays the distributed and remote teams’ topic is equally actual in the projects management as the change management challenge. This requires knowledge and different steps to make it working and effective.

The presentation goal is to share experience and tips for distributed and remote…

Pitfalls of implementing Security Development Lifecycle

The security of modern software is achieved by applying a set of practices of secure development at all stages of the life cycle.

Let’s look at the basic approaches to the implementation of a security development lifecycle, as well as the positive and negative points that you will…

An Agile Software Engineering Method to Design Blockchain Applications

This paper proposes a software development process to gather the requirement, analyze, design, develop, test and deploy Blockchain applications.

The process is based on Agile practices, but makes also use of more formal notations, such as some UML diagrams, modified to represent specific…

Master-class. Feature discovery

If your product grows and develops, then for sure you have a long list of ideas, how it can be improved or developed. Ideas can come from your users or be born within a project team. Ideas are always more than time and opportunity. How to choose the idea that will receive the greatest response…

Master-class. Build the development process based on SEMAT practices

A business game that allows you to build a new development process or improve an existing one using the SEMAT practices library.

Architecture of QA Automation solutions in diagrams

In several steps we will draw the most popular schemes of automation solutions architecture, figure out what limitations if any, are applied to them by the popular automation approaches such as DDT, KDT, BDD, DSL and others

Improving development infrastructure with the help of custom tools

In my presentation, I’m going to give an overview of our three custom tools. Sherlock Bug helps to find out how the tasks similar to yours have been solved earlier. Revizor (Auditor) lets you know when the man-hours estimate is exceeded and informs you of the other deviations in the software…

Applying “Documentation as Code” practice in custom software development

Ability to create good documentation distinguishes software developer among competitors. Ability to do it effeciently, with reasonable efforts, is not so visible, but not less important, especially if software product is complex and customer is demanding.

Our more than 20 years experience…

Linux Process Tree Reconstruction Using The Attributed Grammar-Based Tree Transformation Model

The problem of constructing attribute grammar and syntactic-semantic interface for restoring chains of system calls generating some input tree of Linux processes is considered. An experimental comparison is made with the BPSF method presented on SEC(R) -2017, and the advantages of new proposed…

How to make ends meet. Practices of cross-team interaction.

Several teams may be involved during development of almost any complex project. A properly organized process of creating cross-team features is huge success factor.

I’ll tell about the workflow, which we came up with during the development of our new online banking for…

Solving Data Integration Problems in Medical Imaging System: A Case Study in Almazov National Medical Research Centre

Authors present a methodology which allows computer scientists to create and process depersonalised medical data sets. The system being developed allows its users to collect, transform and process data from heterogeneous medical sources and to validate various hypothesis using medical data sets.

On declarative configuration management using Kubernetes and Helm

Configuration management tools strived to provide a declarative way to describe the desired state. This was achieved to some extent using Puppet manifests and Salt states, but they never worked good enough due to the imperative nature of systems to be configured. Kubernetes and Helm provide a…

Analytics for 100 million data. Short lesson for system integrators

In enterprise systems, data has been accumulating for years. And it seems a simple task-to configure the integration of the database sources in the database of your system. It would seem, what problems can be? Check the model of the system, do mapping. The catch is that everyone lies! There is…

How not to sink in the deep of legacy

To create great software from scratch and to turn big ball of legacy mud into a marble are completely different tasks. Many of us know how to create simple and robust interfaces, how to use the most effective and state of the art tools. But when faced against a huge product evolved through…

A Comprehensive Approach to Quality Assurance in a Mobile Game Project

We share the lessons learned during a three year-long mobile game development project and discuss the QA techniques that turned out to be most efficient for us. We analyze how these activities address typical game-specific mobile development and testing issues, and why they can be recommended…

One for all. Synchronizing all types of content in a company into a single CCMS

I’ll describe how such a tool as CCMS helps with content development not only to the technical documentation team, but also other departments of the company. You will learn the advantages of centralized implementation, and how it affects the organization of joint work of different departments…

Developing documentation: from problem statement to deployment

In this report I will talk about the process of creating, localization and publishing documentation at developers.xsolla.com. This resource is intended to developers who want to integrate Xsolla solutions. I will also talk about tools and ways which we use to create, localize and deploy the…

Role of Solution Architect in a Software Project

We all know what is the responsibility of Project Managers, Developers and Test Engineers. But what does a Solution Architect do?

“Mafia offer” development for market

Value proposition solves the root problem of the customer related to the acquisition of your services. The report, aimed at business owners and managers, product development managers, shows exactly how such development occurs on the example of developing a value proposition for an IT company.

Azure IoT as a generic platform for enterprise IoT solutions. Is everything the way it looks at first glance?

Attendees of the presentation will learn about practical experience of selection of Cloud IoT platform for connection of specialized “smart” devices for one of the customer projects in MERA Company. Azure IoT platform has been chosen which offered optimal choice of capabilities but it did not…

Complex made simple: how we teach C++ on Coursera

For the past two years I have been leading the project of creating a C++ specialization on Coursera. The specialization is going to consist of five courses, three of which are already launched and another one is almost ready.

In my talk I want to tell:

why we decided to create…

Project mindset: the past and the present

At the dawn of the Digital Age, every IT team member was supposed to have a project mindset: to relate his objectives to the project goal and to the activities of the others and to come to assistance if necessary. At that time, Fred Brooks compared a chief programmer team with a surgical team.…

Cheap and scalable call-center based on FreeSWITCH. Is it truth or fiction?

I will tell you about my experience in development of scalable call-center solution based on Open Source components. I will describe evolution of architecture of the application with similar goal starting from the idea and finishing by production ready solution. We developed this solution in a…

Master-class. The practice of using static code analyzers

In modern realities, the issue of software code quality is becoming more urgent. Static analysis tools are applied more often for eliminating bugs, security problems, and “code smells”. A centralized view of all warnings issued by various tools can become another pain in the…

Static code analysis: from typos to vulnerabilities

In the report I will tell about the importance of the SAST (Static Application Security Testing) when developing secure, reliable applications and also about existing alternatives. Based on long-term experience of checking a large number of open source projects, I’ll tell about advantages…

How serverless computing in data science can help to utilize your resources

Speaker will describe serverless technology, different use cases and how this approach can help you to utilize your resources.

Why microservices do not fly and how to help them to take off

In recent years, more and more teams are starting to use microservices in their projects. This is due to the fact that the business directly specifies in the requirements the possibility of scaling and highload already at the start of any, not even a very large project. But very often, teams…

What happens to IT-education?

Discusses the economic reasons for the changes in education in Russia.

After the talk panel discussion University Role in IT Specialists Training will take place.

Actionable availability monitoring in web

During development of web services we are often faced with the issues of service availability for users. In my talk I want to show you the importance of user availability metrics and how to use them as the driver of development process. You will learn how to select indicators for measuring web…

Reasonable mockups and prototypes

With help of mockups and prototypes, IT-teams can visualize the project scope, elicit and clarify the requirements, manage customer expectation and even setup effective communications.

But some complications may occur, like:

· What exactly we should use in this moment?