Abstract: Producing high-quality functional software that is reliable and robust requires, and will continue to require, coordination between and amongst humans and software tools. As the sophistication of software tools used in software development grows, we must continually re-evaluate what are the best roles for humans and what are the best roles for software tools? In addition to defining roles, we need to orchestrate how humans and software tools in these roles work together to produce desired outcomes. This talk will outline some of the existing and upcoming challenges in combining individual advances about software development into addressing the problems organizations face daily in delivering successful software products.

Bio: Gail C Murphy is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Vice-President Research & Innovation at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on improving the productivity of software developers and knowledge workers by providing the necessary tools to identify, manage and coordinate the information that matters most for their work. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), as well as co-founder of Tasktop Technologies.