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Matt Nunn is the Director of Product Marketing for Visual Studio with the developer tools marketing team in the US BMO where he focuses on driving development of custom solutions across the broad range of Microsoft technologies. Prior to joining the US BMO in May of 2011, Matt was a Senior Product Manager in the Developer Division BG where he led technical product management efforts for 5+ years focused on the ALM products and the business of Application Lifecycle Management with Microsoft tools. Prior to joining the Visual Studio team, Matt spent 3.5 years working on the SQL Server team where he helped to launch SQL Server 2005 and 1.5 years with the Microsoft Office team helping define and promote Office as a development platform. For 10 years prior to joining Microsoft, Matt worked as a technical consultant and project manager designing and building software systems with various consulting companies both in the US and the UK. Matt has numerous magazine articles and conference talks to his name including sessions at Tech Ed and PDC over the last 14 years.
Today, Enterprises are facing the challenge of rapid growth in technology and data, a proliferation of platforms and devices, and an insatiable demand for users and consumers to be 'connected' at all times. These new disruptive technology trends are changing everything from customers' habits to how business applications need to operate. Every company is now a software company and thinks of software as a mission critical enabler of their value priorities. They think of IT as a value provider vs. just being a cost center. So IT must enable new reach and brand differentiation opportunities for their business by taking advantage of these developments. A comprehensive evolution strategy is required to keep applications modern and relevant to the business, and to both existing and new customers. See how Microsoft's ALM vision enables value delivery through Agility, Quality and Scale (aka DevOps).
Matt Nunn is the Director of Product Marketing for Visual Studio with the developer tools marketing team in the US BMO where he focuses on driving development of custom solutions across the broad range of Microsoft technologies. Prior to joining the US BMO in May of 2011, Matt was a Senior Product Manager in the Developer Division BG where he led technical product management efforts for 5+ years focused on the ALM products and the business of Application Lifecycle Management with Microsoft tools.Prior to joining the Visual Studio team, Matt spent 3.5 years working on the SQL Server team where he helped to launch SQL Server 2005 and 1.5 years with the Microsoft Office team helping define and promote Office as a development platform.For 10 years prior to joining Microsoft, Matt worked as a technical consultant and project manager designing and building software systems with various consulting companies both in the US and the UK. Matt has numerous magazine articles and conference talks to his name including sessions at Tech Ed and PDC over the last 14 years.
What's different about Quality Enablement (QE) compared to Quality Assurance (QA). or to just plain old testing?For investment in modern business applications to be successful, there is an expectation to deliver value in an agile manner. However, agility alone without quality does not deliver value, pushing hard on agile delivery may compromise time spent on proper testing. Conversely, quality alone without agility does not deliver value either, agility is often being compromised for the sake of setting a very high bar of quality, Quality Enablement is a balance between these two. See how Microsoft's ALM vision can help you achieve Quality Enablement through Agile Practices.
Thom Gray (Certified Scrum Professional and Certified Scaled Agilist) is a Technical Account Manager at Rally Software. He started his IT career as a developer, writing assembly code for video card firmware. Since those first heads-down days, he has become an accomplished Agile product development leader with a proven track record of enterprise information systems strategy, design, development, deployment, and operation in organizations large and small. After working at several different Rally customer sites, he found that he liked the product so much that he joined the company. He now helps product development organizations adopt and scale Agile so that they can more productively and predictively deliver value to market.
Today's most successful organizations have discovered that to reap the major benefits of Agile and Lean development they must understand how to move from single team implementation to scaled Agile. This requires a carefully crafted plan and structure along with diligent leadership. In this presentation, Thom Gray will use real-world examples to explain how this scaled approach can make the difference between reaping the benefits of Agile or suffering from disconnected and ineffective efforts.
Larry is an industry recognized Agile speaker and thought leader. He is Rally Software's Director of Analytics and Research. Before coming to Rally Software, Larry worked at Carnegie Mellon with the Software Engineering Institute for seven years conducting research on software engineering metrics with a particular focus on reintroducing quantitative insight back into the agile world. He now leads a team at Rally using big data techniques to draw interesting insights and Agile performance metrics, and provide products that allow Rally customers to make better decisions. Larry is an accomplished author and speaker, presenting at major conferences for the lean and agile markets over the last several years, including the most highly rated talk at Agile 2013. He has a talk and workshop scheduled for Lean/Kanban 2014 as well as a two talks accepted for presentation at Agile2014.
"Ground breaking research on Agile performance metrics! This session answers the questions your organization is asking. You will learn how the elusive Agile impact is finally quantified, through data derived from 10,000 Agile teams across all industries. Did you know that dedicating team members doubles productivity and triples quality results? Do you know what levers will cut your time to market in half? Did you know that teams that most aggressively control their simultaneous work in process (WiP) are up to twice as Responsiveness as teams that do not? Last year, we did the research to identify a measurement framework that accurately gauges performance along the dimensions of Productivity, Predictability, Quality and Responsiveness. We call it the Software Development Performance Index (SDPI). We then used the SDPI to analyze the data from 10,000 teams using the Rally platform to identify the patterns of behavior that lead to the best performance AND we quantified those differences so you can plug them into your own economic model and make nuanced context specific trade-off decisions. We published a paper with findings on Team Size, Dedicated vs share people, Team Stability, Process choice, and WiP. However, we didn't stop there. We continue to conduct research and we even built a product that uses the SDPI to benchmark your organization against the industry. Come to this session to hear about the original findings plus any that we have published since then, but come with an open mind and be prepared to have your beliefs challenged with data. Come to see how tooling like this can help your organization get better feedback and improve."
Anders Wallgren is Chief Technology Officer of Electric Cloud. Anders brings with him over 25 years of in-depth experience designing and building commercial software. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Anders held executive positions at Aceva, Archistra, and Impresse. Anders also held management positions at Macromedia (MACR), Common Ground Software and Verity (VRTY), where he played critical technical leadership roles in delivering award winning technologies such as Macromedia's Director 7 and various Shockwave products. Anders holds a B.SC from MIT.
"Every company is a software company. More than ever, organizations are embracing Agile methodologies. As this Agile adoption occurs, organizations have to implement software optimization practices like Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) in response to the diverse and unrelenting pressures of the competition. Learn how to automate and accelerate application development from "build" to "deploy" of modern, multi-tiered, service oriented applications while reducing errors, increasing reliability/visibility, and accelerating time to market."
Dr. Satish Thatte is Agile/Lean Coach & Product Consultant at VersionOne. He has over 30 years of industry experience: 15 years of software development and management at Texas Instruments, Bellcore and LG Electronics, 7 years as VP of Engineering at several companies practicing agile methods, and 5 years of agile coaching and consulting engagements for three dozen clients with impact at executive level. His expertise is in agile transformation, scaling up agile methods, application of lean methods covering enterprise-wide value chains, and getting business results from agile-lean methods. He is a SAFe Program Consultant, Certified ScrumMaster, and Certified Scrum Product Owner. He obtained his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana.
VersionOne Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform is more than an agile tool. VersionOne ALM platform integrates seamlessly with a large number of third-party tools to give its customers a complete custom solution. The platform makes it easy for its customers to adopt agile and lean development methods, and makes it simple to scale their agile initiatives from teams through programs and portfolios to the entire enterprise level with support from TeamRooms, PlanningRooms, Custom Reports and Analytics. It supports Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). VersionOne recognizes that each customer has unique needs, constraints, organizational culture, pain points, goals and agile transformational challenges. VersionOne offers a solution customized to your needs by leveraging its platform, services, education, community, and extensive partners network.
Matt has numerous magazine articles and conference talks to his name including sessions at Tech Ed and PDC over the last 14 years.
Are you already leveraging the benefits of automated testing in development? Are you thinking about the next step? Compuware APM extends the continuous integration processes of any build and test system with automated performance analysis, component and transaction regression detection, and architectural validation. This makes it easier to build applications right the first time. Reduce cycle time, increase team efficiency and eliminate production firefights through integration with your automated build-and-test systems.
David Guimbellot has remained on the leading edge of software engineering practices his entire career. Today, he helps his clients transform through better solutions, tools, and processes. David loves to keep his hands on the keyboard. He paid his way through UC Berkeley as a software developer before he landed a job at Microsoft prior to the Win3.1 launch. During those exciting growth years he was a Software Test Engineer, Developer and eventually a Senior Program Manager. The advanced engineering practices he lived and learned during those years helped him transition to the real world in 2007. Or really magical world, since he became a Senior Manager at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts IT. This experience created the necessary transition from product research and development at a high tech company to the tangible business requirements and realities of a highly complex and dynamic entertainment mega-company. Today, David shares his expertise and experience with clients as the Director of Test Strategy for Orasi Software.
"The ultimate goal of a test team is to deliver the highest quality solution to the end users. Continuous delivery is a set of practices and goals that coordinates testing with operations as well as development. We will show how recent advancements in build orchestration tools along with operation management automation can turnaround test results in hours instead of weeks. By optimizing the feedback loop to the change owners they can fix their defects in minutes. Imagine a project where the developers and infrastructure team can resolve 10 or more issues per person per day! This is possible with Continuous Delivery.We will review a quality pipeline that allows your teams to transform and improve in parallel with the development and operations organizations. We will also review the core elements of development continuous integration using Jenkins, Junit, and static analysis. We will also review automated deployment practices with Maven, Nexus, Chef and Vagrant."
Alex is an Agile practitioner, CSM, leader and change agent. With over 15 years in technology integration and software product development, Alex headed application development at the UN, technology transformation in Accenture, and business architecture in Microsoft-Avanade. As a convert from Waterfall, understands difficulties facing technology delivery and passionately believes in spreading the value of Agile. Alex is also co-founder of SFAA, board member and VP Education in addition to being Director of Membership Retention for PMI South Florida.
Interactive session introducing the Scrum framework and its basic elements. This session is designed for participants not familiar with or new to Agile, who want to understand the advantages of using Agile while getting an overview on the scrum process and its advantage over traditional waterfall methods. No prior experience in Agile is required.
Maria Bishop is a technical leader with over 12 years in software engineering and business analysis in addition to being a ScrumMaster certified by Agile guru Bob Hartman. She is the co-founder of the South Florida Agile Association, board member and VP of Finance. She is also the founder of the Agile Book Club Miami which meets regularly to promote Agile practices within the user community. Maria has served in technical leadership roles as a systems engineer (BA) at AT&T Bell Labs, senior software engineer at Siemens, and customer services manager at Informix Software. As an educator, Maria has designed curriculum, developed programs, and managed projects using Agile practices. Maria holds engineering degrees from CalTech and UM, as well as certificates in Training/HRD and Teaching from FIU. Follow Maria on twitter @MariaPBishop.
Interactive session introducing the Scrum framework and its basic elements. This session is designed for participants not familiar with or new to Agile, who want to understand the advantages of using Agile while getting an overview on the scrum process and its advantage over traditional waterfall methods. No prior experience in Agile is required.
Rick is a seasoned Agile Coach, Scrum Master and IT professional. He has hands on experience working with key comapnies in South Florida including Spherion, Carnival Cruiseline, Burger King, Kaplan University, and currently at IPC Subways. Rick is credited with taking his Agile teams to high performance, deploying weekly shippable business value to a mission critical processing platform that supports 28,000 stores. The success of the infrastructure Agile Kanban team was featured in a Gartner! Rick is active in building the IT communitiy. He is the co-founder of the South Florida Agile Association, VP of Membership for South Florida PMI Chapter, and co-Founder of the IBM Rational South Florida User group. Rick holds PMP, CSM, CSP, CSPO, PSM I
Team dynamics and culture is the biggest challenge organizations will have going to Agile. Hear what it's like to work with high performing Agile teams, from an experienced coach and scrum master. Learn about: * the secret formula to help team members move from good to great. * how IPC advanced their agile culture. * fun team building exercises that can help identify opportunities for improvements. A different spin on the retrospective.
Deema is an enterprise coach and Agile enterprise transformation expert and co-founder of the South Florida Agile Association. Certified by Ken Schwaber in 2004, she is an active practitioner with experience as SM, PO, CPO, coach, and transormation enabler. Agile has been woven into Deema's career as she delivered value into the market place with innovative products and growth strategies for start ups. Deema drove growth at scale with 40-50% YOY revenue growth through new product innovation and opening international markets in the payments space. Deema holds an MBA from Kellogg School in Northwestern University.
Do you know where to start your personal journey with Agile? this session aims to de-mystify the training and career path options. Formal education and Certifications:
Silvio Restrepo is the PMO Director at Citrix. He has 16 years of experience as an IT practitioner having started out as a developer and technology consultant and then moving into various enterprise IT roles including Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, and PMO. Silvio has spearheaded the introduction of Agile/Scrum practices and tools into IT group's Enterprise Project methodology.
Collaboration Across Globally Distributed Agile teams - Virtualization, Mobile, and Cloud The nexus of forces is impacting how we interact with our teams. This presentation will provide an overview of how the Citrix PMO has embraced these technology trends to enable team members to work better and live better.
Rimma Polissky, CSM, PMP, PMI-ACP is a season Sr. Project Manager who has over 10 years of Project Management experience and has been instrumental in introducing Citrix's PMO to adopt the agile methodology for its enterprise projects. Prior to joining Citrix, Rimma's has implemented the agile methodology in a few local companies such as JM Family and Campus Management. Rimma has also worked in NYC for several Big 4 Consulting companies that include Deloitte and PwC. Rimma also holds the position of the Director of New Members for the South Florida PMI, a key member of the SFAA and one of the top fund raisers at Citrix for the LLS
"Rimma will share her experience in advancing Citrix PMO to the adoption the Agile methodology What did first key initiatives? Pilot project? Lessons Learned? When did the Agile transformation happen? How did we get there?"
Joy Chambers MBA, CSM Joy Chambers is a seasoned QA Manager with over 15 years of experience in QA, Project mgmt. and ERP implementations for Fortune 500 organizations. Joy has worked on several Agile projects one of them included implementing an e-commerce platform for an organization that had no prior exposure to Agile. At Citrix she played a key role on the 1st Agile project that was launched and has been engaged in building out the QA agile processes. Prior to joining Citrix Joy worked as a Management consultant for companies such as Motorola, First Data, Chase and Aetna Pharmaceuticals. Before transitioning to IT, Joy was a member of the Diplomatic corps focused on consular and International relations. Joy is also our VP for Program Management with SFAA and volunteers in the community assisting underprivileged students in gaining an exposure to careers in technology.
How does QA fit into the Agile world? Do we still need testers? will I lose my job if we switch to Agile? How do you transform from a waterfall team to an agile QA team? Let's explore some of the myths and focus on the value that QA can provide to the Scrum team.
Born with an affinity for IT, Giovani focused his college education on Information Technology at Florida State University. Throughout his IT career, Giovani has worked in several different industries ranging from pharmaceuticals to food service organizations. This has allowed him to specialize in areas such as networking, infrastructure, virtualization and security. As the Manager of IT Infrastructure at IPC, Giovani leads a team responsible for supporting various technology and software solutions, provided to over 11,000 franchisees and 30,000 SUBWAY restaurants in North America. In his role, Giovani works with his team to identify innovative and emerging technology solutions that allows IPC to build large scale virtual development environments that lend them self to Agile methodologies, continuous integration and continuous improvement.
An Infrastructure experience in support of Agile. Learn about a company's experience in building a virtual environment, to enable development teams to acheive Continuous Integrated environment. This infrastructure is the core of providing flexibility for developers to expand their environments to meet the changing business needs.
Daniel Silva is a DevOps engineer with a career that spans start-ups and top tech companies. Daniel has worked with a variety of companies, including EMC, Interval International and Revolution LLC. In 2013, Daniel joined Value Pay Services LLC (an IPC subsidiary), a company that specializes in transaction processing for all SUBWAY restaurants. There, Daniel has been introducing automation of functional testing, integration testing and deployment, bringing a capability of continuous delivery of business value to live production systems. Follow Daniel on Twitter @danielsweb.
Why is Continuous Delivery important for a business? and how to get there? This session outlines the principles, practices, tools, and business value proposition. Learn about important Continuous Delivery resources. Hear anecdotes from the speaker's implementation, which he is pioneering at his current company. The goal of this session to help you put Continuous Delivery into practice in your organization.
Evan Williams is a seasoned hospitality executive with a specialty in corporate food and beverage operations, menu engineering, analytics, team development, training, and enhancing food and beverage programs through technology innovation. He has led major technical projects for global cruise line operators, military facilities, and QSR brands, including POS standardization, supply chain efficiency and inventory management initiatives. As a certified Agile Product Owner with IPC and Subway, Evan is leveraging his leadership and insights in the restaurant experience to accelerate innovation in virtual commerce and digital restaurant solutions. Evan is a hospitality graduate of Florida State University's business school and has an International Master of Business Administration from Florida International University.
BDD is the new darling in Agile! Typical Agile training includes a heavy dose of user story writing and workshops. As Agile teams progress down the path of Agile, they are finding that product owners may add more value to the team by introducing features outlined in the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) fashion. This workshop aims to introduce the idea and allows the audience to witness the value of BDD in action.
Ernesto Custodio's experience go beyond Program Management to include Network Engineering, Engineering Management, Knowledge Management, Product Management, and Project Management roles working for fortune 500 companies, such as ING and Cisco Systems. As a Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), and Project Manager Professional (PMP), he promotes Lean, Agile and Scrum practices to build innovative solutions. Ernesto is currently a Scrum Master, Agile coach, and leads the Talent and Culture track for Agile Transformation at Cisco Systems. Ernesto holds a MBA from Nova Southeastern University, H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship.
So you know that agile is the way to go. Now what? Do you know where to start to convert an organization to Agile? This interactive session will walk through a case study outlining the steps taken to adopt the Scrum methodology at Cisco Systems. This session is designed for business, and technical leads who wan to understand how to transform their organization or team into an Agile one. No prior experience in Agile is required."
Michael Kublin is the founder and President of PeopleTek, a leadership coaching/development company credited with helping businesses and individuals become more successful. His speeches and workshops enrich attendees through inspiration, passion, and purpose. Prior to founding PeopleTek, Mike worked for Electronic Data Systems and American Express in a variety of leadership roles managing technical teams and interfacing with internal and external business partners and vendors. Mike received his B.S. degree from the University of Florida, his MBA from Nova Southeastern University, is the author of 3 books, and serves on several S. FL boards.
The use of scrum/agile software development framework is on the rise. It's more important than ever for technicians to truly unite as a team and strive to achieve a common goal. Teams must self-organize, collaborate, and communicate with great clarity and efficiency, and adapt, embrace, and respond to change. They must address unpredicted challenges by leveraging and maximizing the strengths of each team member; they must have a keen sense of self awareness, and a laser beam focus for responsiveness and quick delivery. Learn key behaviors to be collaborative, innovative and growth oriented; these are required to lead the efforts for the success of vital projects.
Jochen (Joe) pioneered Agile Portfolio Management in 2008 by releasing the first book to address the growing demand in enterprise-wide agility. Joe is an outspoken, forward-thinking practitioner who provides coaching and training services through his New York City based company called INCREMENTOR. In his talks, he is thought provoking and challenges existing project management habits with the goal to further improve organizational effectiveness. He believes that "making traditions, means breaking traditions". By following his principle, he has successfully increased the level of agility in numerous teams and organizations around the globe. Because agile is a journey and not a destination, he is eager to continue to raise the bar. Find out more about Joe at jochenkrebs or follow him @jochenkrebs
Starting but more importantly staying agile isn't easy. Like in a marathon, teams and organizations will hit the wall that prevents them from achieving great things. Let's discuss the common barriers and obstacles, and how we break through that wall. We will use a model of sustainability to grow a culture that is ready to build those innovative products and services, which we like to use as a consumer in the years ahead. The tool is lightweight and the driver behind it is common sense. The reward is an agile enterprise that allows executives to steer a portfolio of agile projects and gives them real insights into the health of their projects and its teams. The agile culture is characterized by empowered and self-organized teams, which produce more in less time. More importantly, they have fun while doing that.
Bharat Krish is the VP of Information Technology at HBO Latin America. As the head of the IT department his responsibilities include developing the TV Everywhere digital strategy for the company as well as managing the Digital Products, Software Applications, Infrastructure and Client Services and support organizations. Prior to HBO Latin America, Bharat was the Director of Media Technology at NBC Universal where he was responsible for heading the IT infrastructure strategy and implementation for NBC's News, Cable and Sports divisions. Bharat was part of the core team responsible for implementing IT Infrastructure shared services at NBC Universal and he led the build effort for NBCOlympics.com for the Beijing Summer Olympics and for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Prior to NBC Universal, Bharat headed the team responsible for building On-Air systems and applications for CNBC. Bharat started his professional career working for GE Healthcare as a software engineer. He holds a Masters degree from Columbia University in Technology Management, a Masters degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Coimbatore Institute of Technology. Bharat was the president a 900-member workplace diversity group called Asian Pacific American Forum's east coast chapter. He currently serves on the advisory board of Miami-Dade's Science Technology Engineering Mathematics (STEM) education initiative. Bharat lives in Coral Gables, FL with his wife and his 1-year-old son.
The media industry is facing a rapid evolution resulting from a change in technology, consumer behavior and market. Through this session I would like to share some of my experience in building a nimble and innovative technology organization at HBO Latin America in order to thrive in this challenge.
Martin is a technical leader, that has delivered complex web-based software, Operating Systems and hardware products. In his current role, Martin is responsible for architecture, engineering, and execution of Remote-Learner's Moodle Products and its SaaS Platform. Prior roles include Chief Technical Officer with One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), where he delivered several models of the award-winning XO laptop; and Software Architect at Catalyst.net.nz working on New Zealand's National Elections software backend. Throughout his career, Martin contributed to many major Open Source projects, most notably the 'git' version control system and the Moodle Learning Management system. His work is present in many parts of the Linux stack, including the Fedora and Debian Linux distributions. Several million laptops in the hands of children across the world attest to his hardware work.
How Kanban and Scrum are used in a SaaS operation in a highly competitive environment. This session exposes practical issues and decision points with both. Agile is used for DevOps -- managing large scale cloud services, with several Data Centers and thousands of VM -- and for Product Development. This approach has been instrumental for Remote Learner, a global leader in open-source e-learning solutions, enabling them to pursue a very aggressive and successful product strategy.
One of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. James Grenning's trains, coaches and consults worldwide. James professional roots are in embedded software. His mission is to bring modern technical and management practices to to product development teams, especially embedded systems development team. He is the author of Test-Driven Development for Embedded C (http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jgade). He is a co-author of CppUTest, a popular unit test harness for embedded C and C++. He invented Planning Poker, an estimating technique used around the world, and participated in the creation of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development. His business website is http://wingman-sw.com.
Technical excellence is more than two week sprints, a burn-down chart and a daily stand-up meeting. The basic rules of Agile or Scrum are not an end in themselves, but rather a staring point based upon principles and practices that allow and encourage teams to adopt, adapt, and refine their craft. Unfortunately, it may seem to the technical people that agile is just another micro-management approach. Extreme Programming, the spur under the saddle that started this wild ride, is based on sound technical practices. Why do so few employ the engineering practices that are designed to support the tight iterative cycles of Agile and Scrum? The founders of Scrum expected you to pull in the engineering practices once the continuous improvement cycle revealed the problems of poor product quality, hard to change code, wasted time debugging, long stabilization efforts and the ever growing burden of manual test. We’ll look at why the technical practices of test-driven development, refactoring, continuous design, clean code and automated testing your organization be great.
