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[ UPDATE: Fall 2009 Locations have now been announced for Boston, Seattle, Chicago and London ]
In December 2008, we ran the prototype to our recently announced Agile Success Tour in Austin, Texas. This event was extremely well received, and the majority of attendees would recommend this event to their colleagues. Given the high satisfaction level, I can almost guarantee you will not want to miss the one nearest you. So consider registering for upcoming events in Denver, Los Angeles or New York City. Short of living in Chicago and attending Agile 2009 in August, it has to be the best way to learn from your local peers about the actual benefits and best practices of adopting, scaling and cutting costs with Agile software development.
I was the moderator at our Austin event and while there, we captured short videos of our customers/presenters. These customer videos give you a sample of what you can expect to see and feel in your community.
The videos include comments from:
- Israel Gat – former VP of Development at BMC
- Jack Yang –Director of Engineering, HomeAway
- Gary Allison – VP of Engineering, Convio
- Erik Huddleston — CTO, Inovis
I really enjoyed two things about the event. First, attendees got to hear and discuss multiple approaches to Agile adoption, tooling Agile lifecycle management and the business drivers that drove their move to Agile. Second, the interplay between local leaders, including members of the Agile Austin community, resulted in shared learning while enhancing the local professional network. In addition to a brief presentation by Israel, these gentlemen were all allotted enough time to share their stories, answer a few of my questions and field audience questions. Following the panel, breakout groups allowed folks to dive deep on hot topics, get introductions to Rally partners and learn about major enhancements to Rally’s services and applications for Agile lifecycle management. Of course the event was executed flawlessly by our great marketing team including Sonya Breakstone and Michelle Burrows, and was facilitated by Julie Chickering, our Texas-based coach.
The Denver event is set for Tuesday, March 18th in downtown Denver. This event will include:
- Peggy Reed — VP of Development at Avaya
- Lloyd Star — VP of Engineering/Development at Beatport
- Pete Fischer — Product Manager at eCollege
- Ray Bagley — Director, Product Planning & Management at Spatial
The Los Angeles event is set for Thursday, March 26th in Manhattan Beach, CA. The event will include:
- Christophe Louvion, CTO at Gorilla Nation
- Laureen Knudsen, Sr. Dir. of Program Management at Qualcomm
- David Annis, VP of Software Development at UTI from Arizona
- Chris Babcock, VP of Technology at Real Capital Markets
The New York City event is set for Thursday, April 2nd. This event will include:
- Jochen Krebs, Dir. of Program Management at AOL
- Brian Stockmoe, Sr. Dir. of Program Management at NBC Universal
- Land du Pont, Executive Dir. of Product at Conde Nast Digital
- Micah Silverman, Founder & Principal at MPower IT
So, please consider sending a senior member or members of your team to learn from and share with your local peers. Additionally, Israel Gat is slated to participate in each of these three events, where he will share his stories and insights from BMC and other Agile organizations.
Registration is online and is limited to the first 100 people. I do not believe there is an event with a higher return on your personal investment for these times. Agile is proven to dramatically cut costs and increase innovation in any sized software development team. If you are not realizing major benefits from Agile in your organization, you will feel the pull to get started at this event.
As a warm-up to these events, you might also consider having members of your organization attend or view the recordings of a new, two-part Webinar series on Agile Cuts Costs that includes Jean Tabaka and me.
