FREE EVENT: The Washington, DC Lean-Agile Open
June 5, 2009 12:30-5:00
Free Seminars and Open Space Collaboration for IT Managers, Business and Product Managers, Marketing Managers, and Developers
Register Today!
Featuring Keynotes from:
Alan Chedalawada, President and Senior Enterprise Consultant at Net Objectives
Ken Pugh, Fellow Consultant at Net Objectives
Case Study Presentation "Transition to Lean-Agile across the Enterprise in a Fortune 100 Financial organization"
Alan Chedalawada, President and Senior Enterprise Consultant at Net Objectives
Hosted by: ettain group
For more information call or email: Mike Shalloway, Director of Marketing and Sales
404-593-8375, mike.shalloway@netobjectives.com
Two Tracks – Three Seminars – One Open Space
Lean-Agile Applied – Managers and Agile Developers together will learn and discuss how to use Lean principles to guide Agile and Scrum to gain a competitive edge, and achieve enterprise agility.
Two Concurrent Tracks for Technical, Business, & Management Attendees:
- Technical Track: Acceptance Test-Driven Development
- Business & Management Track:
- Enterprise Agility & Transitioning to Lean Thinking
- Business Driven Software Development – Realizing Business Value Faster
Join Net Objectives in three presentations which will help you from start to finish in Agile software development projects.
Technical Track:
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
This session will introduce acceptance testing; explain why it works; and outline the different roles the team members play in the process. We will contrast acceptance testing with unit testing and show examples of how the process clarifies the work to be done.
Attendees will learn:
- How acceptance testing enhances agile development
- How acceptance testing can be automated
Who Should Attend:
- Technical Managers and Software Developers who want to explore practical methods to enable Agile development
- IT Managers who want to focus their technology teams on test driven development
Business/Management Track:
Enterprise Agility & Transitioning to Lean Thinking
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Business Driven Software Development – How the Business Realizes Business Value Faster
Many organizations have embarked on the agile approach for their software development efforts, with the goal of realizing business value sooner, while adjusting to changing business priorities.
Agile, Lean, and Scrum have taken the industry by storm. Many technology teams have adopted these paradigms and ideologies successfully.
However, enterprise transition to Lean-Agile affects more than software development and managing a product portfolio.
Successful adoption is dependent on the development organization, management, and the business all progressing towards agility; while all three areas are important, business involvement is critical!
The Lean-Agile Enterprise has an expanded and formidable opportunity to engage customers in unprecedented ways.
How is your business impacted by Agile? How should they participate in the enterprise?
Business Driven Software Development is where the Business owns scope and delivery of software solutions, and ‘drives’ the development efforts, incrementally based on highest business value.
Discovering and meeting the needs of customers is a basic understanding of business. Rather than simply meeting your product at the finish line with promises of features and benefits, discover and harness the power of integrating with the Lean-Agile team and deepen your relationship with customers.
Alan Chedalawada will explain Enterprise Agility and the application of Lean Thinking to software. He will also explain Business Driven Software Development which describes how the business is involved and impacted in discovering, producing, and realizing business value faster from your software investment.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Incorporate the business, management, and technology teams for greater agility.
- Implement Continuous Business Planning
- Discover and drive teams based on Business Value increments – known as Minimum Marketable Features
- Prioritize these business increments across your project Portfolio based on highest business value
- Allocate Business Roles and Responsibilities
- Adopt a changing paradigm of how the Business ‘drives’ software development efforts across product lines for enterprise agility.
- Gain visibility and transparency for better predictability
…plus a case study and discussion of adoption, transition, and evolution / maturity of organizations using Lean, Agile & Scrum:
- Stages of maturity
- Adoption / Field of use
- Organizational challenges
- The Portfolio view
- Pulling from Business Value
- Continuous improvement
Who Should Attend: Senior Business managers, Product managers, Executives who:
- are considering the benefits of Lean, Agile, and/or Scrum approaches
- have Agile or Scrum pilots underway and need guidance on integration
- are looking to Lean-Agile to reliably deliver business value, adapt to changing market conditions, manage risk, improve predictability, and/or substantively increase the ROI of software investment.
Also appropriate for product owners, analysts, team leads, managers and others who want to understand how an Agile team fits within the business, and how the business drives a Lean-Agile team.
Agenda
| 12:30-1:00 pm | Registration and Refreshments |
| 1:00-3:00 pm | Track 1: Technical Track: Acceptance Test-Driven Development Track 2: Business & Management Track: Enterprise Agility & Transitioning to Lean Thinking plus Business Driven Software Development – How the Business Realizes Business Value Faster |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15-4:15 pm | Case Study |
| 4:15-4:45 pm | Agile Open Space, facilitated by Alan Chedalawada and Ken Pugh Open collaboration and discussion: Topics will be selected with your feedback from sessions. |
| 4:45-5:00 pm | Wrap-up |
Venue/Registration Info
- Hyatt Regency, Reston Town Center
- 1800 Presidents Street
Reston, VA 20190 - Map link
- Google Map
- Special Instructions
Space is Limited – Please Register Early for this Event
You may pass this invitation along to appropriate attendees – Agile team members and managers involved in, or seriously considering, Agile implementations should attend.
About Net Objectives:
Since 1999, Net Objectives has been assisting developers, teams and companies create better software with higher success rates. We have trained over 20,000 professionals in Lean-Agile principles, practices and processes and facilitated Lean-Agile initiatives from team level to the enterprise in both software product development and IT applications. Net Objectives delivers comprehensive assessments, consulting, training and coaching services worldwide. Practice areas include: Lean Software Development, Scrum Process and Analysis, Agile Architecture, Test-Driven Development, Design Patterns, Quality Assurance and more. Net Objectives is a diverse and talented team of Lean-Agile experts dedicated to your success.About ettain group:
ettain group is a privately held, award-winning IT Services firm that provides IT Staffing and Professional Services to companies throughout the Southeast. We have offices in Florida, Georgia, Washington DC and North Carolina. ettain group is comprised of over 100 dedicated full-time employees and more than 350 experienced consultants.Our IT Staffing practice was established in 1996 as an innovative alternative to the commodity based focus of the majority of staffing companies. Our focus on creating value and providing world class service to our clients and consultants has enabled us to sustain profitable growth and unparalleled excellence since our inception. Our emphasis on quality is supported by an in depth eQM process (ettain group Quality Management) and is encouraged by our clients.
Our Professional Services practice dates back to March of 2000 and has reached the distinguished title of Microsoft Managed Services Partner. By focusing our efforts on enabling our clients to improve and fully utilize the Microsoft SharePoint Server capabilities, ettain group has been able to continue to add value to our growing base of clients.
An ever-expanding pool of talented IT professionals and a commitment to our clients and consultants has placed ettain group at the forefront of the IT Services industry.
