Thursday, October 8, 2009

Coming Soon! PhUSE 2009 in Basel, Switzerland


For those who don't know, PhUSE is the "Pharmaceutical Users Software Exchange". PhUSE is an independent non-profit organisation run by volunteers.

Its purpose is to create a European forum for programmers in the pharmaceutical industry by way of a society that holds several events per year (including hosting an annual multiple day conference) as well as providing a library of learning tools.

Given the support of the major European pharmaceutical companies, PhUSE is the premier event for Pharmaceutical Programmers in Europe and is now entering its fifth year.

The 2009 conference will be held in Basel Switzerland between the 19th - 21st October.

Business & Decision actively support and participate in a number of industry groups such as PhUSE and this year I will be presenting a paper in the "Applications and Software Development" section, on Wednesday 21st at 13:00.

The subject of the presentation is "Compliant Agile Development", where we discuss how Agile software development techniques can be applied within a controlled framework that is suitable for the regulated Life Sciences industries.
The presentation will actually feature 2 papers;
I will be co-presenting with my colleague, Christopher Cieslok, on Business & Decision's tailored framework for Agile techniques within Life Sciences, while Prof. Dr. Eckhart Hanser, our collaborator from the University of Cooperative Education in Lörrach, Germany, will be presenting a more general paper on his research into team self-organisation and other meta-elements of Agile projects.

I will share some of the core elements we will present at PhUSE after the conference, and also discuss more on Agile techniques for compliant software development and the issues we face in this area in future posts.

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