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 Broadcast Date: May 23, 2007
Time: 09:00 AM PDT -- 12:00 PM EST -- 1700 GMT
Speakers:
Bola Rotibi, Senior Analyst - Ovum
Ben Pope, Engineering Lead - Medtronic Navigation Inc.
Patrick Egan, Editor-in-Chief, CM Journal
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Learn how Medtronic Navigation leveraged adapted Test-Driven Development (TDD) and SPL in combination with Telelogic Synergy™ to improve its software development.
When Medtronic Navigation needed to expand and manage its product portfolio without increasing development costs, they successfully defined their agile development lifecycle based on the Software Product Line (SPL) approach to expand their product portfolio without increasing costs.
Join Ben Pope, Engineering Lead, Medtronic Navigation and Bola Rotibi, Senior Analyst, Ovum as they discuss how SPL, TDD, and Telelogic Synergy™ helped Medtronic Navigation become more agile to:
- Increase efficiency and customer-focus
- Enhance product predictability
- Improve team communication and collaboration Head of Ovum’s Application Lifecycle practice, Bola Rotibi will provide perspective on the SPL approach as well as the importance of focusing on the customer's needs.
About the Presenters:
Ben Pope, Engineering Manager - Medtronic
Ben Pope is an Engineering Manager at Medtronic Navigation. His 20 years experience in the software industry range from large development projects while at IBM to launching a software start-up. His current areas of research include reusable software architectures and frameworks and software product lines.
Bola Rotibi, Senior Analyst - Ovum Bola
Rotibi specialises in analysing the latest software development technologies and market trends, with a particular interest in e-business applications, wireless application development and middleware.
She heads up the Application Lifecycle practice covering the full range of development activities including requirements specification, design, programming, testing and configuration management.
A respected industry expert, Bola has an in-depth understanding of the companies that operate in these markets. Bola also uses this expertise on consulting assignments for clients.
She is regularly sought after to provide advice on emerging technologies such as web services, .NET, MDA and hosted development services, and is often quoted in the trade press.
Bola is a Chartered Engineer and has industry experience spanning the full software development lifecycle across a variety of industry sectors, encompassing network computing and application development.
Prior to joining Ovum, Bola worked for a number of years as a software developer for Reuters, focusing on implementing a new architecture strategy.
Patrick Egan
Patrick Egan is the founder of CM Crossroads and Editor-in-Chief for the Configuration Management Journal. With over 20 years experience in the software industry in both development and product management, he brings an understanding of the needs of both the industry as well as the users of configuration management tools. Prior to CM Crossroads, Mr. Egan held technical and executive management positions with fortune 500 organizations and software vendors such as Allstate Insurance, the LEGENT Corporation, SERENA Software, New Dimensions, PLATINUM Technology, Catalyst Systems and Computer Associates. Mr. Egan received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Loyola University of Chicago.
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About the Sponsor:
 Telelogic is the leading global provider of software solutions for Enterprise Lifecycle Management (ELM). The company’s award winning software solutions help organizations take an enterprise-wide, lifecycle approach to automoate and integrate Business Process Optimization (BPO), Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and Model-Driven Development (MDD).
Leading organizations around the world use Telelogic software to develop products that meet customer requirements, reduce costs by aligning IT with organizational objectives; achieve program milestones within time and budget; ensure high-quality development processes that meet industry standards and demonstrate regulatory compliance. This helps improve quality and predictability throughout the enterprise, while reducing time-to-market and overall costs.
Telelogic
9401 Jeronimo Rd.
Irvine, CA 92618
www.telelogic.com
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