The BCS Software Practice Advancement group has announced details of 5 evening talks from 6 leading experts looking at the State of the Art in software development. The series is charged at £75 for BCS & SPA members and £90 for non-members including refreshments.  All talks take place at the BCS Davidson Building in London:

On Friday 19 September, Kevin McGuire (Eclipse UI Architect) talks about development tools and environments, covering the thinking that’s leading to new approaches in Eclipse 4.

On Monday 30 September social complexity expert and Europe’s leading Scrum trainer Joseph Pelrine will talk about effective development teams and how they work inside organisations.

On Monday 6 October Rob James (HSBC) and Eoin Woods (Barclays Global Investors) draw on their extensive experience of systems and technology in large organisations to present a snapshot of enterprise architecture.

On Monday 13 October, Adobe platform evangelist Andrew Shorten talks about new developments in application architecture.

On Monday 20 October IBM Architecture practice lead Nick Ababurko will talk about how he’s tackled some of the biggest and most complex projects that IBM have been involved with.

Full details on the talks and speakers are available here.