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Agile Development Transformation Workshop for Managers – Lexington, MA

February 4th, 2009

AccuRev is co-presenting a one-day seminar on Agile Development Transformation:

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“Mitigating Risk with Agile Development: Great Software, Great Business Results.”

Where:10 Maguire Rd, Bldg. 1, Lexington, MA
When: Thursday, February 26, 9:30 – 3:30

Details and registration

Speakers: Rich Mironov (Enthiosys); Johnny Scarborough (GlobalLogic); Damon Poole (AccuRev)
Cost: $50 for qualified registrants ( List price $595 ). Seating limited to 50 attendees.

This one-day session will include detailed presentations, interactive exercises and open discussion on:

  • Agile development approaches including distributed agile methods, the history of agile, and agile manifesto
  • A detailed walk-through of Scrum, one agile approach
  • The organizational changes required for successful agile adoption: executive commitment, cross-functional teams, and coaching
  • Hear first-hand from one of your peers about how to bring about agile adoption and improved results.
  • Roadmaps, releases, iterations and the iron triangle
  • Business drivers, business value and customer collaboration approaches
  • How to evaluate technologies when adopting agile

This seminar is intended for CTOs, Vice Presidents & Directors of:

  • Software Development or Engineering
  • Product Management
  • Business Units

All attendees will receive free copies of two new books:

Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises by Dean Leffingwell
The Art of Product Management by Rich Mironov

Co-sponsors:

GlobalLogic  AccuRev 

RallyElectric Cloud

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Free Webinar: Emerging SCM Best Practices for Agile Development

February 3rd, 2009
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AccuRev is hosting a free Webinar on “Emerging SCM Best Practices for Agile Development” on Thursday, February 5 from 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST. The webinar will introduce the unique demands that agile processes place on legacy SCM tools and ways to build and automate an efficient Agile development process. Damon Poole, AccuRev CTO, and Uttam Narsu will be presenting.

Mr. Narsu, an industry expert on software configuration management (SCM) best practices and former Forrester/Giga analyst, will discuss the most important aspects to consider when applying SCM best practices to an agile world.  Mr. Poole will discuss how Multi-stage Continuous Integration can solve some of the underlying impediments to a successful Agile development environment.

“SCM is critical to Agile success. If your SCM tools don’t provide integrated and seamless support for Agile, you won’t get widespread adoption of Agile development,” said Narsu. “Development teams require brutally efficient SCM tools, but the tools must still be issue-based, must have support for flexible process models, and enable efficient branching, merging, and refactoring. The SCM tool should also provide private workspaces and assist continuous integration.”

Mr. Narsu has worked with hundreds of clients using wildly differing software development environments. While clients who succeed with agile development have strong SCM practices, the best practiced agile SCM: transparently integrated, flexible, and collaborative.

Specific topics discussed will include:

  • Typical SCM obstacles to Agile success and how to avoid them;
  • Key Agile Process requirements for SCM products and specific use case scenarios;
  • Challenges with continuous integration, and how Multi-stage Continuous Integration delivers value and how to adopt it today; and
  • Key SCM metrics for delivering on Agile development goals.

Register here for this free webinar taking place on Thursday, February 5th from 1:00-2:00 EST: Emerging SCM Best Practices for Agile Development.

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