Mark Collins-Cope
Technical Director – Ratio Group Ltd.
Mark Collins-Cope (mcc AT ratio.co.uk) has been working in the Software Engineering field for over 20 years. Having graduated with a first-class honours degree in Computer Science, Mark has undertaken a variety of roles within the software industry, including: project management (software development, training course development, consultancy studies, etc.); analysis of requirements; technical architecture, software design and development, teaching and writing.
Mark has worked for a variety of companies, both large and small, including The Instruction Set, Hoskyns, Cap Gemini, and Logica. Mark is now Technical Director of Ratio Group Ltd, a UK based training, consultancy and software development company with a specialisation in financial software development, where he combines his management role with ongoing involvement in complex technical projects.
Mark has written for a number of industry publications and journals (Enterprise Architect, Application Development Advisor, C++ report, Exe magazine, etc.) and was formerly editor of Threads – an open system’s related technical journal. He is currently editor of ObjectiveView, a technical journal focusing on software development (back copies can be obtained from the ObjectiveView home page). Mark presents regularly at many software engineering conferences (TOOLS, OOIS, Component Computing, Enterprise Architecture, etc.).
International presentations/publications have included:
- ARM Yourself for Enterprise Application Development – Enterprise Architect Magazine – August 2005.
- Columnist in Application Development Advisor (www.appdevadvisor.co.uk) magazine, covering Methodologies and Models. Columns include
– “A tale of two projects” (see W10 – A Tale of Two Projects)
– “Principles of Agile Project Planning” (see W12 – Planning to be Agile?)
- Large Scale Application Architecture – Enterprise UML Conference, UK – 2003.
- Planning to be Agile – article in DSDM newsletter - http://www.dsdm.org/timebox/issue19/planning.asp
- Editor of ObjectiveView (Object technology journal) – 1996-Present. See www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html for back issues.
- “Agile or Fragile” – Panellist on keynote panel session at XML/WebServices, October 2002, London (organised by SIGS/Application Development Advisor)
- What is agility? – Presentation at XML/WebServices, October 2002, London (organised by SIGS/Application Development Advisor)
- ROOTS 2002 – Architecture Reference Model for Component Based Development, Bergen, 2002. (See www.ratio.co.uk/techlibrary.html).
- SIGS CBD 2001 – Multi-Application Use Case Analysis (See www.ratio.co.uk/techlibrary.html).
- OOIS 2000 – London, England – “An Architectural Reference Model for Object and Component Based Development”
- Component Computing 2000 – Helsinki, Finland – “An Architectural Reference Model for Component Based Development.”
- Component Computing 2000 – Helsinki, Finland – “RSI Use Case Analysis for Component Based Systems.”
- XP2000 (Extreme Programming) 2000 – Sardinia, Italy – “An Architectural Reference Model for Refactoring in XP.”
- TOOLS Europe 2000 – Panel Chair – “What is Software Architecture?” (panel comprised: Ian Graham - author: “Requirements Engineering”, John Daniels - author “UML Components”, Jan Bosch - author: “Product Line Architectures”, amongst others). (See www.ratio.co.uk/techlibrary.html).
- IonaWorld ’99 – Dublin, Eire – “An Introduction to UML.” (See www.ratio.co.uk/white.html).
- Association of C/C++ Users Conference ’99 – Oxford, England – “An Introduction to UML.”
- TOOLS Europe ’99 – Nancy, France – “The Requirements/Service/Interface (RSI) Approach to Use Case Analysis.”
- Patterns ’98 – Manchester, England – “The Requirements/Service/Interface (RSI) Approach to Use Case Analysis.” (See www.ratio.co.uk/RSI.html and supplementary papers at www.ratio.co.uk/techlibrary.html).
- Quality Web Systems (Addison Wesley) – Chapter 2 – Testing Using the RSI Approach to Use Case Analysis.
- Extreme Programming Explained (Addison Wesley) – Chapter 4 – An Architectural Reference Model for Refactoring in XP.
- “The Requirements/Service/Interface (RSI) Approach to Use Case Analysis” – C++ Report, August 1999.
- “An Introduction to UML” – Exe Magazine – January 1998.
- Editor Of Threads (Open Systems Journal) - 1989 to 1992.
- Using the C Libraries - PC Tech User, March 1989.
- Object Oriented Programming and C++ - PC Tech User, November 1988.
- X Marks The Spot - .EXE magazine, Mary 1988.
- C++: An Introduction For Programmers - .EXE magazine, April 1988.
- Sticks: A Symbolic Layout System For VLSI Design, Proceedings of the Third Silicon Design Conference, June 1986.
- A Process Independent PLA Generator Avoiding Compaction, International Workshop On Symbolic Layout and Compaction, North Carolina, USA, November 1986.
- PLAs: Their Use and Abuse, Silicon Design Magazine, November 1984.