Humane assessment primer

Humane assessment is a method for making software engineering decisions. Assessing software systems to make decisions is a critical activity that needs to be approached explicitly during development. Read more about humane assessment in the free MiniBook.

This course offers an introduction in software and data assessment. It requires only general technical knowledge and it is targeted equally both to technical managers and to software engineers.

The sessions cover the essence of humane assessment:

  • why assessment is economically important (hint: because you already spend some 50% of the development budget),
  • how adopting crafting analysis in-house can solve the problem,
  • how to integrate it in the development process,
  • how to embed it in the organization, and
  • how to support it via a new breed of tools.

Public course dates

TBA Somewhere in Bern 750 CHF request a date

Modules

  1. Context and problem
    • The economical importance of assessment
    • The challenge and promise of assessment
  2. Solution
    • Understand the contextual nature of assessment
    • Make assessment explicit to get a chance to optimize it
    • Support it with crafted analyses
    • Do not stop at tools. Assessment is not a tool issue. It is a human issue
    • Example case studies
  3. Integrating assessment in the development process,
    • Understanding the different nature of problems
    • Introduction to daily, spike and strategic assessment
  4. Embedding assessment in the organization, and
    • The stakeholder and facilitator roles
    • Adopting the skills
  5. Supporting assessment with flexible tools
    • A quick introduction to analysis anatomy
    • Economics of crafting tools

Target audience

  • software engineers
  • architects
  • managers

Prerequisites

  • software engineering background (either management or engineering)

Duration: 1 day

Testimonials

Humane Assessment is a full featured approach which enables you to grow your software organically based on hard data. It ensures that your underlying design and architecture is right - continuously throughout the whole product life cycle. It integrates well with Scrum, making it an obvious choice in my agile toolbox.
Ralph Jocham, Agile Coach at effective agile. and Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org

Truly inspirational course - Tudor is passionate about helping anyone involved in software development look at the reality of their code base to make better decisions. Great introduction to the method and some available tools, will definitely share this with customers who are dealing with poorly documented legacy software.
François Bachmann, Lean/Agile coach

Data driven decision making is useful to make good decisions and to avoid boring meetings. It should be part of the culture of every company.
Lukas Renggli

Skillfully crafted and brilliantly executed, Tudor's presentation whizzes you through the conceptual endoskeleton of the Humane Assessment method in what feels much less than a morning. But it doesn't stop there. Tudor puts meat on the bone with accounts from the past years of applying the method, where it has not only saved the day, but sometimes the existence of the company. I highly recommend this introduction to everyone in the software engineering business.
Florian Winkelman, Software Engineer, CompuGroup Medical Schweiz AG

The Humane Assessment course was given in such a wonderful storytelling way, that that alone is a reason to take the primer. Yet more importantly, Humane Assessment can have such a huge impact on development, that taking the course is a must.
Robert von Burg, Software Engineer

An interesting insight in what can be considered a very promising approach. The course is mainly based on open discussions and case studies. This was very helpful in getting a concrete idea about the real impact of applying such a methodology in a real context.
Andrea Caracciolo, Junior Researcher, University of Bern

It's a pleasure listening to Doru.
Max Leske, Software Engineer

Humane assessment is all about taking decisions on facts, not instinct.
Erwann Wernli, PhD student

Ein wirklich interessanter und praktikabler Ansatz um Entscheidungen anhand von technisch orientierten Daten zu treffen. Tudor vermittelt die Inhalte mit einer enormen Begeisterung die sich auf jeden einzelnen Teilnehmer überträgt!
Damir Majer, SAP Senior Software Architect