Venkat Subramaniam

Java champion, founder of Agile developer, award-winning author, professor at the University of Houston

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s) is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects.

Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. He was once a recipient of the MicroSoft MVP award. He has received JavaOne RockStar award three years in a row and was inducted into the Java Champions program in 2013 for his efforts in motivating and inspiring software developers around the world.

Topic:
Software Design in Practice

Time & Date:
May 16th | TBD

Place:
TBD

Short description:

We all are familiar with SOLID and other software design principles and have explored many design patterns. There is no better way to get a deeper understanding than to practice the concepts. Furthermore, some of the principles and patterns minifest themselves in what appear to be rather unconventional ways when applied under a set of constraints and requirements. In this hands-on intensive workshop we will take some problems and device elegant lightweight design, in code, and discuss the tradeoffs. Come experience the evolution of ideas into code and take shape by way of incremental development.

Why should you attend?

This workshop has been created to help you get a deeper understanding of when and why to use certain design principles and how to reap their benefits. Instead of discussing the ideas in theory, you can see practical applications of the principles emerge from real code as we develop and refactor it.

Who is this for?
Programmers, technical leads, hands-on architects

What will you learn?
  • When and how to apply principles
  • Relevance of principles to patterns
  • Identify the benefits of principles in code
  • Go beyond plain textbook examples
  • Evaluate the pros and cons of design ideas
Technical requirements:
  • Git client
  • Java 8 or newer
  • IDEA community edition

* If you're interested in this program, please contact us at info@itkonekt.com to find out more about availability and prices.