Creating an Effective Agile Workplace for Distributed SCCM

Best Practices in Support of Agile Distributed Development

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Broadcast Date: Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Time:  10:00 AM British Summer Time / 11:00 am Central Europe Summer Time
           10:00 AM Pacific Daylight Savings Time
           11:00 AM Singapore / 1:00pm Australia

Speakers:
Elaine Larsh, Director of Program Management at Quest Software
Stephen Palmer,  Principle Consultant at Borland
Corné Human, Product Marketing Director for Change Management at Borland
Patrick Egan, Publisher, Agile Journal

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With 80% of software development taking place in distributed environments and Agile development methodologies adoption on the rise, organizations are faced with a new twist on the Agile challenge: How to support software change and configuration management for Agile teams despite geographic boundaries?

As collaborators become increasingly distributed, the emphasis gradually shifts from group support to system support and process adherence becomes even more vital. In this converging world of seemingly diametrically opposed goals, automation and innovation in collaboration are the keys to successfully managing the ‘Agile Shift’.

As the cornerstone of software development, your SCCM solution must balance these goals. In this session we will explore the dilemma facing software development organizations as well as some of the best practices Borland customers have adopted to support them in their transformations.

• A customer testimonial will provide insight into the real world business drivers behind one company’s Agile transformation and how they are maintaining source control for their distributed environment by means of their customized SCCM solution, Borland® StarTeam®.
• Stephen Palmer, Principal Consultant and Certified SCRUM Master, Borland Software, will provide a best practice perspective based upon his involvement with leading global organizations undergoing the ‘Agile Shift’.  Stephen will share his solution checklist for measuring the suitability of your SCCM tooling in support of your Agile transition, with particular focus on the SCRUM methodology.
• Corné Human, Product Marketing Director, Borland Software, will provide the solution vendor's perspective on how to drive agile collaboration, manage change and expose metrics, by highlighting the touch points SCCM has into the wider ALM space.

Elaine Larsh,
Director of Program Management
Quest Software

Elaine Larsh has been with Quest for 7 years providing project management for many of their commercial software development initiatives.  In her current role she provides project management mentoring and audits software best practices. Elaine also directs the development and selection of software tools which improve project management and enhance the software delivery process for Quest's commercial software. She became a certified Project Management Professional in 2005 but believes that agile development blended with the right tools and resources is the most effective software development methodology in today's rapidly changing and global software environment.

Stephen Palmer,
Principle Consultant
Borland

Stephen Palmer specializes in service-oriented, component-based, and object-oriented software analysis and design, and agile software development processes. He is a Certified Scrum Master and a certified FDD Associate. He is also the lead author of the book, “A Practical Guide to Feature-Driven Development.

Steve has a decade of software development experience working on multi-million dollar projects in a variety of industries around the world. He is also close to clocking up a subsequent decade as a consultant working independently, for TogetherSoft, and currently Borland.

Corné Human,
Product Marketing Director for Change Management
Borland

Corné Human is responsible for global product marketing for Borland's Software Change and Configuration Management (SCCM) solutions.  Human brings more than 15 years experience in the IT industry, with a focus in the Software Development and Process Improvement domains. Over the past 8 years, he has held product marketing roles for SCCM as well as Requirements Definition and Management.

Human joined Borland in early 2003, following the acquisition of Starbase Corporation where he was the Technical Director for Starbase's International Sales division. He joined Starbase in 2000 and was responsible for expanding Starbase's footprint into the international market around the StarTeam and CaliberRM product lines. Prior to this, Human worked as a Development Manager, IT/Development Consultant and Trainer for various organizations, including Microsoft.

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