Beginners-Workshop »Model-Based Development«

More automation in software development leads to lower development costs in comparison to traditional development methods. The improved quality is reflected in longer life cycles and better maintainability of the software.

With the beginners workshop »Model Driven Development«, companies obtain the opportunity to get to know the benefits of model driven methods in their own surroundings. The workshop is individually designed to the needs of the customer.

In addition to the beginners workshop »Model Driven Development«, companies are also offered a workshop from the embedded environment, »Introduction to Model Driven Development for Embedded Systems«.

Based on a customer-typical job definition the itemis experts develop a tool environment which is the basis for a comprehensive potential analysis. Within the scope of the cost-benefit analysis, itemis also determines the costs for the deployment of the optimized tools as well as the expected costs of possible service and support. Finally, the customers receive a specially tailored strategy for their system environment and requirements for the implementation of model driven software development.

The benefits for the customers

The itemis experts provide an insight into the development of tool-chains based on "Eclipse", the world's leading open-source-development platform.

The IT-development departments of the customers permanently benefit from the workshop mediated know-how, since the introduction takes place by means of a specially tailored way of looking at a problem for the company. In the same way, the individually tailored and free tool environment of the itemis experts can also be used after the workshop.

The potential analysis includes not only the existing system environment but also the developers of the customer, providing an overview of the possible applications of model driven software development plus the related potentials.

With the cost-benefit analysis and the developed introduction strategy of itemis, there is a comprehensive basis of assessment to decide on the introduction of model driven software development.

In only one short workshop, companies receive not only the information on the present situation but also a realistic assessment on the present potentials for improvement in connection with the introduction of model driven development.

The benefits at a glance

• Know-how-transfer
• Re-use of the free tool-chains
• Potential analysis

Course of events in the workshop

The beginners workshop »Model Driven Development« is individually tailored to the business process dependent on the complexity. In doing so the following course of action has proved itself: After setting the expectations and needs-based issues, the itemis experts develop the open-source tool-environment for this scenario on the second and third day.

These tools are also the focus of the subsequent two-day practical workshop, which is held under participation of the IT-department of the customer.

The application possibilities for the development of software based on models, which are determined here, form the basis for the discussions, reviews and analysis on the final two days..