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Tooling in an Agile Environment and the Acorn Case Study

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Written by Patrick Egan   
Friday, 11 May 2007 16:00
Part Three: Agile Business Webcast Series

Ryan Martenstorsten_weirich

Patrick EganBroadcast Date:  June 19, 2007
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EST -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
Ryan Martens, Founder and CTO of Rally Software
Torsten Weirich, Executive Vice President of Product Development for Acorn Systems
Patrick Egan, Editor-in-Chief, CM Journal


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To explore the role of tools as a change-enabler in adopting Agile, Ryan will introduce an organizational change model from waterfall to Agile. Using this model, he will show how changes in the “dev-build-test-fix” cycle along with project/program visibility, tracking and signaling tools can help lead the change effort, especially in medium to large teams. He will detail the benefits of an approach that uses adjustments in tooling to help lead the change effort. Finally, Ryan will overview how a new breed of Agile life cycle management tools combined with coaching and training services can accelerate this approach. This 60-minute talk is targeted at team, project, process, program and product managers of medium to large-scale software development organizations who are making the move to Agile.

Tooling in an Agile Environment and the Acorn Case Study


Part Three: Agile Business Webcast Series

Ryan Martenstorsten_weirich

Patrick EganBroadcast Date:  June 19, 2007
Time: 10:00 AM PDT -- 1:00 PM EST -- 1700 GMT

Speakers:
Ryan Martens, Founder and CTO of Rally Software
Torsten Weirich, Executive Vice President of Product Development for Acorn Systems
Patrick Egan, Editor-in-Chief, CM Journal

  

[ View On-Demand Anytime ]

Attend all three broadcasts in this webcast series and be eligible to receive a 30 GB Video iPod

To explore the role of tools as a change-enabler in adopting Agile, Ryan will introduce an organizational change model from waterfall to Agile. Using this model, he will show how changes in the “dev-build-test-fix” cycle along with project/program visibility, tracking and signaling tools can help lead the change effort, especially in medium to large teams. He will detail the benefits of an approach that uses adjustments in tooling to help lead the change effort. Finally, Ryan will overview how a new breed of Agile life cycle management tools combined with coaching and training services can accelerate this approach. This 60-minute talk is targeted at team, project, process, program and product managers of medium to large-scale software development organizations who are making the move to Agile.
 
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Part 1 - Implementing Agile at a Team Level – Disciplines of Flow from Rhythm and Test to Training and Tools
Date: Tuesday June 5 - 10 am Pacific - 1 pm Eastern 1800 GMT
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Part 2 - Five Levels of Agile Planning
Date: Tuesday June 12 - 10 am Pacific - 1 pm Eastern 1800 GMT
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About the Presenters:


Ryan Martens

Ryan Martens is an expert in helping organizations transition from traditional development processes to more Agile techniques. Before founding Rally - his fourth software start-up - Ryan directed the corporate adoption of Internet technologies within Qwest Communications, and then moved on to co-found Avitek, a Boulder-based custom software development firm that culminated in an acquisition by BEA Systems in 1999. Ryan received his Masters in Business Administration and his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a board member of the Agile Alliance, the Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Colorado and Colorado Conservation Trust.


Torsten Weirich

Torsten brings over 13 years of commercial software product development experience to Acorn. He joined Acorn from BMC Software, where he was the Product Development Manager and architect for BMC's PATROL for Diagnostic Management suite. Other roles at BMC included serving as a member of an elite group that created new products incorporating advanced technologies. These advanced technologies included automated network configuration management, statistical analysis and data mining. Torsten was also a lead developer for BMC's PATROL DB database management products. Prior to BMC, he managed graphical database tools development at UniSQL. Torsten also has experience with compiler technology (at Ryan McFarland) and a reverse-engineering CASE tool while at Ten X Technology.

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.

Attend all three broadcasts in this webcast series and be eligible to receive a 30 GB Video iPod

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Rally Software Development Corp. provides the software-driven enterprise with the knowledge, coaching and tooling needed to succeed with Agile development practices. Rally's new software development management solution allows software organizations to dramatically lower the cost of change in their development efforts so they speed value delivery to the customer. This on-demand, hosted environment helps outsourced, in-house and distributed teams concurrently define, plan, and test software releases that propel the business.


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