This is going to be more of a lively discussion than a presentation where we will propose a number of points and participants can point out their believed fallacies in what is being said. The presentation/discussion will start with some agreement on definition of terms (e.g. verification vs. validation, assurance vs. control, etc.) and then dive into some interesting discussion points including:

• System development views;
• What a good professional developer actually does all day;
• structured vs. object oriented development;
• Brief overview of various software development processes/techniques used since the '70s through to today including all the various agile techniques and how they compare;
• What a good project manager needs to be doing; and will end with
• How any technique out there must be customized to the company culture and developers to be successful.