September 16th 2008
Our next meeting will be Tuesday, September 16th @ 7:00 PM
Harry Koehnemann
and Tim E. Barrios
speaking
on
“Does Agile Development Scale?”
(Bring your laptops for part 2)
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6:30 - |
Equipment setup and mixer – Food provided Rocket Gang |
7:00 - |
Meeting begins, announcements |
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7:10 - |
Speaker: Harry
Koehnemann and Tim E. Barrios, “Does Agile Development Scale?” |
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8:05 - |
Short Break |
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8:10 - |
Speaker: Harry Koehnemann and Tim E. Barrios, “Jazz and the Eclipse
Platform” |
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9:10 - |
Drawings - final announcements Meeting Ends,
tear down, mixer |
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9:30 - |
Close the doors (really we have to get out!) |
Speaker: Harry Koehnemann
and Tim E. Barrios
Title: Does Agile
Development Scale?
Abstract:
Real World Talk –
“Does Agile Development Scale?”
For
more than 10 years, agile practitioners have documented many success stories
for rescuing and aiding failing projects.
Over that time the development community has embraced their best
practices around continuous development, team communication, customer
collaboration, adaptive planning, and many others. However, most agile success stories come from relatively
narrow projects – very small teams, mostly co-located team members, narrow
solution technology skills, etc.
This talk discusses how agile practices are scaling to other types of
projects. It first presents the
agile practices and then discusses how well individual ones do or do not
scale. Participants will learn the
agile practices that scale well, those that don’t, and those that scale with
some assistance.
Technical Talk
Over
the past few years, agile development practices have seen a recent
resurgence. What some viewed a few
years ago as the counter
culture of software development practices has become mainstream and even
espoused by the establishment. This talk presents a new, tightly integrated, agile toolset
that supports large and small, distributed and co-located teams. IBM-Rational recently released this
“open commercial” technology called Jazz which brings
team collaboration to the Eclipse platform. Rational Team Concert is the first product released on Jazz
technology and supports agile best practices through adaptive work planning,
continuous integration, build management, integrated chat and wikis, and
flexible team notification and collaboration, to name a few. This talk demonstrates how Team Concert
improves team productivity and visibility through live, interactive demos with
the audience. Bring your laptop
and collaborate with us on the presentation (Team Concert client installation
software will be provided at the talk).
Speaker
Bio
Harry
Koehnemann is a Senior Technical Consultant for Rocket Gang, an IBM-Rational
and Telelogic Premier Business Partner.
Harry provides consulting and mentoring services on the Rational and
Telelogic product lines, primarily focusing on model-driven development, agile
practices, and the integrated toolsets involved with the application
lifecycle. He provides customers
with professional services on software tools, methods, and architecture.
Harry
has played a variety of roles during the last 15 years as developer, mentor,
and educator. He has worked on
projects ranging from 5-developer web applications to large systems involving
hundreds of geographically and organizationally distributed developers. In addition, Harry has consulted for a
variety of customers both large (Motorola, Intel, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Ameritech)
and small (Unicon, Buzzeo, Orbital Sciences) to name a few. This experience provides him a broad
perspective on the unique needs of different software development
organizations.
Harry
has a graduate degree from Arizona State University and also teaches classes on
Systems Modeling and Agile Development for ASU as a Professor of Practice.
Tim
Barrios is a Certified IT Specialist (Rational Solution Architect role) in the Pacific
Southwest at IBM Rational Software. Since joining Rational in 1993, he has
worked in several roles including as a technical representative and technical
lead in the southwestern United States, supporting Rationalʼs products and
providing professional services to customers. In his career with IBM Rational,
Tim has supported most of the IBM Rational product line and in the past has
focused in particular on Rational's design, construction, and process
technologies. He has provided customers with professional services on software
methods, process, architecture, and Rationalʼs tools. In addition to supporting
customers in the field, Tim was an active participant in the planning and
development of the Rational Unified Process.
Before
joining Rational, Mr. Barrios worked as a Software Engineer at AG Communication
Systems (AGCS, formerly GTE, later Lucent, now Alcatel) in Phoenix. In his 11
years there, Tim worked in a variety of functional areas and roles including:
real-time embedded switching systems development, software tools and
environment development, object based language research and development,
engineering workstation studies and deployment, development environment system
administration and management, software process and methodology team leadership
(as part of software quality assurance), object oriented programming training
course development and deployment, and full life cycle development of real-time
systems using object oriented techniques. Mr. Barrios received several
technical achievement awards while at AGCS.
Mr.
Barrios received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana
(Lafayette) and his M.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University. His
master's area of emphasis was software engineering while his thesis was on the
topic of software development and maintenance environments. Mr. Barrios is also
a commercial rated pilot.
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