周铁人（TechExcel）
现任TechExcel公司总裁、CEO、首席架构师。周铁人博士是“以知识为核心”的应用生命周期管理（ALM）领域的专家，倡导有序和高效的软件设计规划和开发过程，并将服务支持管理与开发管理相融合。他于1995年在美国加州创立TechExcel公司，已经借助ALM和服务支持管理解决方案帮助全球42个国家的客户获得成功。周铁人博士在美国堪萨斯州立大学获得计算机科学硕士学位和人工智能博士学位。他的博士研究领域专注于实验室自动化、概念建模、机器人技术和人工智能等方面。2007年4月，周铁人博士荣获中国软件行业协会授予的“2006 年度中国软件企业十大领军人物”称号。
演讲题目: Specification Driven Development
演讲会场: 6月15日（周五），北京（全体会议）
演讲摘要:
The fundamental core of application development lies in the knowledge gained and used throughout the development process. From informal ideas and feature requests, to formal specifications, design documents, development plans, test cases, release notes, and user documentation, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a knowledge-centric process.
Specifications shall be the driving force in this process. A successful ALM process shall achieve two things: First design teams shall develop a well designed and communicated “conceptual product”; Then, distributed implementation teams shall develop an “actual product”. The key for success is to develop a right set of specifications and designs early on and make design changes under control throughout an application lifecycle.
Given its success in 1,500 customers worldwide, TechExcel DevSuite provides an effective solution to make ALM process truly knowledge-centric and specification-driven.
演讲题目: SpecDD for Better Project Measurement
演讲会场:6月16日（周六），北京（分论坛一）
演讲摘要:
Managing design changes is critical to the success of any application development project. If changes happen later in the development cycle, there is a higher risk that projects could run over-budget and over-schedule. This is referred to as “scope creep”, and is a major cause of project failure.
TechExcel’s requirement management tool, DevSpec, provides an effective mechanism to combat scope creep by enforcing a process around specification development. DevSpec gives team members increased visibility, traceability and validation of product designs and specifications.
DevSpec creates new levels of collaboration through its robust concept development platform. This platform allows all team members, from engineering and sales to marketing and administration to interact with the design process. Product managers can use this input to build feature lists, specifications, and conceptually model each release of the product. Features and designs can then be clearly defined and communicated early on, preventing unnecessary design changes.
Every change in an idea, a specification, or a requirement can be tracked and managed in DevSpec. In addition, each change can be associated with an itemized estimate of costs and timeline changes. The financial and time impact of changes are clearly measured and reported. By monitoring and managing changes quantitatively, development teams are able to enhance their development productivity and ROI.
DevSpec is also tightly integrated with TechExcel’s DevSuite- allowing complete traceability from requirements, to specifications, to implementation, and QA testing. This unified system collects and displays the information critical to a project’s success: putting it at the fingertips of the decision-makers who depend on it.
