"The importance of a Healthier Digital World "
"The importance of a Healthier Digital World "
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Session: The importance of a Healthier Digital World
The Netherlands have been battling against the sea for centuries because a significant portion of the country is below sea level. The reason why I feel safe living there with my family is not just because of the dams, sluices, locks, and dykes. It’s also because the software that controls those works, is checked against international quality standards.At Software Improvement Group we enable companies and governments to monitor the build quality and security of software applications. We give recommendations on how to mitigate risks and improve the overall health and quality of software. It is our mission to get the software right for a healthier digital world.
Together with Vidya Thangirala, I would like to present the ever-increasing importance of managing software health and how to do this.
- What does software health actually mean?
- How can you trust the technologies that our lives depend on?
- When do we know if something is good enough, or should we aim for perfection?
During this talk, we will cover our view on how a structured model, with the right metrics, can help people code better, more efficiently - and at the same time take more pride in their work. These insights are not only helpful for the individual but can be used to understand global industry trends and predict the problems of the next generation.
Key Takeaways
- Through the prism of their lives, Clarinda and Vidya’s discus managing a healthier world:
- Understanding of the importance of creating of a healthier digital world for us and the next generation. Explore what ‘healthy software’ should look like and how to make this measurable by an independent company
- Explore how to build a maintainable architecture to enable greater flexibility, higher scalability, faster introduction of new functionality, and lower maintenance costs and above all secure and future-proof software you can trust.
- Industry trends for software landscapes and the problems that arise with a large portfolio of systems. Discuss if there should be a law to force software security and quality standards upon the IT sector
- Discuss how real life impacts software development and how a company’s diversity increases creativity and brings real problems to the forefront for developers to improve digital health.
Bio
Clarinda Dobbelaar, has 20+ years of experience in the software industry and is currently Chief Commercial Officer at Software Improvement Group (SIG).She is responsible for building SIG’s international sales organization, partner management, and business development. From a marketing perspective, she is responsible for portfolio and brand management as well as building an ‘always there’ lead generation engine and agile proposition development.
Clarinda lives in Zeeland, the Netherlands with her husband and 2 children.
Vidya Thangirala has 15 years of experience in the software industry and is currently a Software Engineering Consultant at Software Improvement Group (SIG).
At SIG she helps customers with actionable advice to make software solutions fit for (future) purpose. She uses a combination of technology, scientific methodologies, and software engineering expertise to measure, monitor, and analyze the source code and architecture of applications.
She graduated from the University of Toronto in Computer Engineering and is currently based in New York City.
