Topic: Advanced Techniques in Project Design

In short: If project duration is of no consequence, you should design your project for lowest cost. But if cost is immaterial, you should design it for the least duration. The best solution for every project lies between these two extremes, yet finding it is a highly engineered design task. This session will provide you with the tools and techniques required to achieve a balanced and even optimal solution, enabling you to determine best overall plan for your system while eliminating gambling, death marches, wishful thinking, and expensive trial and errors. The session starts with the basics of project design concepts such as network design, resource allocations and floats, and expands on these essentials to include finding your project time/cost curve, network compression techniques, risk analysis, staffing distribution options and project design. You will also see a comprehensive case study and walk through its various permutations in determining the best plan that will keep the project on time all the time at the best risk and cost available.

Meet Juval Löwy: Juval Löwy is the founder of IDesign and a master software architect. Over the past 20 years, Juval has led the industry with some of his ideas such as microservices – serving as the foundation of software design and development.
Juval has mentored thousands of architects across the globe, sharing his insights, techniques, and breakthroughs, and has helped hundreds of companies meet their commitments. Juval participated in the Microsoft internal strategic design reviews and is a frequent speaker at major international software development conferences. He is the author of several bestsellers, his latest book being Righting Software.