Statesoft,
Ireland
|
  Biography
Brian O'Byrne is a programmer/designer with twelve
years experience in the IT industry. He started his
career in Ireland On-Line in the technical support
department before joining The Solutions Group (later
ebeon). In ebeon Brian participated in the design
and delivery of projects to customers including Independent
Newspapers, AIB Bank, Davy Stockbrokers and Novartis.
 More recently Brian has worked for Eontec (now Siebel
Retail Banking) as a development team manager and
for Irish Life International as a consultant programmer.
Brian founded Statesoft in 2003 to commercialise
a product he developed based on his experience in
delivering user interfaces for computer applications.
|
Presentation
Faster Application Delivery
(the ViewControl Strategy)
ViewControl is an application framework that works by allowing you to define
the behavior of your application as a UML statechart. It will take a
statechart and build a prototype user interface for you. You can then customize
this UI with any look and feel, and have it drive any business process. ViewControl
can be used on applications deployed in both web- and desktop- environments.
This presentation is an anonymised case study detailing how
one customer made use of the tool to replace the user interface
on a legacy system with a new interface that is much more
flexible and easier to maintain, as well as being based on
more portable technology.
This presentation describes how a customer specified the
application they wanted to develop and proved that specification
by having end users criticise a prototype produced automatically
from the design. The customer then went on to develop small
pieces of this design incrementally. During a six month
project eight incremental releases were promoted to production,
allowing for a very rapid feedback cycle and an early return
on investment.
With the project now complete the customer has the capability
to maintain and adapt the new user interface with the confidence
that comes from knowing there is no possibility of the
central design document becoming out-of-synch with the
deployment, and that further developments can be integrated
in exactly the same way as the incremental releases seen
in the first six months.
 return
to program
|
