Software Engineering Institute

In 2012, the SEI Architecture Technology User Network (SATURN) Conference celebrated its 8th year. What began as a small gathering of practitioners and SEI technical staff members has grown to an international conference that attracts researchers, practitioners, and industry experts.

Sessions and presentations included:

• 100 People and a Great Idea: Culture and Architecture for Corporate Startups, Jeromy Carriere
• Agile Architecture + Outsourcing = Agile Outsourcing, Ashok Gurumurthy and Marc Palmaffy
• Agile Doesn't Scale...Without Architecture, Brian Cronauer, Andreas Huber, and Thorsten Keuler
• A Mashup of Techniques to Create Reference Architectures, Rick Kazman, John McGregor
• Analyzing the Evolution of Software Systems by Providing and Relating Different Levels of Change Abstractions, Juergen Salecker and Egon Wuchner
• A Pattern for Requirements-Centric Development of Composite Architectures of Enterprise Class Systems: CVS Caremark Approach for Developing Large-Scale Distributed Architecture, Farhad Etessami
• Applying QAW, ADD, and ATAM to Conduct the Architecture's Evolution to Service-Oriented Architecture, Marcelo Luna
• Architect as Anthropologist: Leveraging Cultural Knowledge to Foster Collaboration, Marcel Derosier
• Architect as Leader, Elizabeth Correa
• Architecture and Design Evolution: The Agile Way, Pradyumn Sharma
• Architecture as the Glue: Lessons Learned in Organizing Multiple Agile Teams, Robert Gazda and Steve Thiffault
• Architecture Review in Agile Development, Ethan Hadar, Irit Hadar, John Harrison, and Sofia Sherman
• Assessing Open-Architecture Systems for Naval Use, Nickolas Guertin, Adam Porter, and Brian Womble (No File)
• Combined Reuse: Product Line Engineering Meets Service-Oriented Architecture, Georg Leyh
• Common Data Acquisition Systems (DAS) Software Development for Rocket Propulsion Test (RPT) Test Facilities: A General Overview, Dawn Davis, Michael Duncan, Richard Franzl, Wendy Holladay, Mark Hughes, Peggi Marshall, Jon Morris, and Mark Turowski
• Community-Sourced Knowledge: Solving the Maintenance Problem, Alex Bordetsky, Karl D. Pfeiffer, and J. Carlos Vega
• Creating an Architecture Oral History: Minimalist Techniques for Describing Systems, Michael Keeling
• Cyber Dumpster Diving: Creating New Systems (That Work) For Less, Ian Gorton
• Depicting Interagency Information Sharing Using Systems of Systems, Jonathan D. Addelston
• Don't Leave Your Architecture Behind...Kanban-Enabled Model-Driven Software Development, Esther Johnson and Chris Williams
• Driving Out Technical Risk by Blending Architecture, Process, and Project Discipline, Jim McHale and Robert Nord
• Establishing Enterprise Security and a Risk Management Program in an Agile Software Development Organization, Srini Penchikala
• Extensibility as a Collaboration Enabler: A Case Study for Group-Context-Aware Mobile Applications, Grace Lewis, Marc Novakouski, and Enrique Sanchez
• Mission Thread Workshops: Lessons Learned, Michael J. Gagliardi and William G. Wood
• Multiple Views of System Specifications: Connecting a Distributed Project, Robert Schwanke
• Mythology for Architects, Arjen Uittenbogaard
• Reflecting Stakeholder Perspectives in Architecture Reviews, Simon Field
• Scaling Architecture Evaluations Within Real-World Constraints, Zhao Li, Karen Smiley, and Roland Weiss
• Software Architect Certification as Part of the Lockheed Martin Integrated Architecture Program, Jeffrey Poulin
• Software Architecture Competence Development and Collaboration, Randy Case, Douglas Dusseau, Rolf Siegers, and Don Wilson
• Software Architecture for Large/Critical Applications, Anirban Basu and Vinay Krishna
• Use of Collaborative Agents and Autonomous Systems Within the Oil and Gas Industry, Einar Landre and Harald Wesenberg
• What Agile Architects Do and What They Need, Viktor Clerc, Rik Farenhorst, and Daan Kalmeijer