Agile Cafe - Pittsburgh

Certified Scrum Practitioner & Agile Coach
Mar 27, 2012


9:00am - 12:00pm ET

Location: DoubleTree Hilton Pittsburgh Downtown
One Bigelow Square, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Are your current development processes holding back innovation, quality and revenue? And can you be sure your business strategy and development are aligned?

Join your peers, Rally and Summa at this complimentary morning event to hear how Agile & Lean methods speed time-to-market, lower risk and increase visibility. Learn how to align your initiatives and take them to the next level utilizing Agile and Lean principles at any scale.

At Agile Cafe, you will:

  • Hear real-life implementation stories, including
    • SmartOps' rapid Agile adoption, leading to a significant upgrade in technical competitiveness in only 6 months
      • Gerry Perham, CTO, SmartOps
    • Carnegie Mellon University's use of Agile to lower risk and engage business users to revamp their proprietary enterprise student information system
      • Tom Vrana, Director of Enrollment Systems, Carnegie Mellon University
    • Omnyx's experience with 'frAgile': the importance of culture and getting the organization comfortable with uncomfortable in order to reap the benefits of 'unconstrained Agile'
      • Michael Meissner, VP of Software and R&D, Omnyx
  • Benefit from the collective experiences of your peers during a facilitated Q&A session
  • Understand how Agile can immediately provide meaningful value to all aspects of your organization
Agenda
8:30am Breakfast & Registration
9:00am Opening Remarks
9:15am Keynote Presentation - The Three Levels of Agile Success
Rick Simmons, Agile Coach, Rally Software
10:00am Break
10:15am

Panelist Presentations

  • SmartOps: Gerry Perham, CTO
  • Carnegie Mellon University: Tom Vrana, Director
  • Omnyx: Michael Meissner, VP Software and R&D
10:45am Interactive Q&A Session
11:30am Closing Remarks & Optional Tool Demo

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