Cincom Smalltalk focuses on BPA—not just for application design, but rather for the purpose of understanding and gaining insight into how the business actually works—primarily from a businessperson’s perspective as opposed to the perspective of an IT application builder.
FOSDEM 2012, Europe’s biggest free and non-commercial event, will be meeting in Brussels, Belgium on February 4-5, and a Devroom for Pharo, Squeak, GST, Etoilé, Seaside and Moose Smalltalk projects will take place on Sunday, February 5 from 9:00 a.m until 5:00 p.m. in room AW1.126.Can real-time collaboration shorten the time between idea conception and feature availability? What are the effects on product quality and team productivity? What technical and process challenges need to be overcome? How can it be used by distributed teams?