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Software SIG Meeting: Agile Methods
Where
MITRE McLean; FDA Silver Spring; MITRE Bedford MA; MITRE Eatontow
MITRE-2 room 1N100, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA 22102
FDA, Bld 66, room G512, 10903 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
various, Maryland
703-983-6127
When
Oct 27, 2009
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Agile Methods
by: Camille Bell
Tuesday October 27, 2009
Camille Bell is an agile coach and technologist. Over the years Camille has seen tremendous change in software process from the Chaos of hack and debug to the Entropy and 'death by process' that Waterfall became. Ten years ago, Camille discovered Agile development practices, which collected the best development practices into a light weight practical solution to modern IT challenges.
More recently, Camille has been an Agile coach to multiple teams as part of a government agency agile transformation program across its enterprise. Camille brings this and other experiences to share with you in Real World Agility in the Trenches.
Title: What you must know about Agility now; and why
For our October meeting Camille Bell, a leading Washington area Agile practitioner and coach, will speak on "What you must know about know about Agility now and why you must know it". Camille will bring her real world experience as a change agent and Agile mentor in government and industry. During her presentation, Camille will cover such topics as:
· Why industry and government is switching to Agile software development.
· General characteristics of Agile processes.
· An overview of leading agile processes: Lean, Scrum, eXtreme Programming.
· Target audience to whom each process sold.
· Why that Agile process appeals most to that audience.
· Some key principles and benefits of each Agile process.
· Some limitations of each Agile process.
· General challenges in adopting Agility.
· Business consequences of failing to adopt Agility.
· What you can do.
Camille has four decades of wide ranging experience: from ARPANET to social networking, from FORTRAN to Ruby on Rails, from solo development to teams of hundreds, from small startups to Fortune 5 corporations and US Government defense work. Camille has served in nearly every IT role from developer, tester and architect to manager, trainer and fiscal oversight and more. Camille has a BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland and an MS from Johns Hopkins.
6:30 PM – Networking
and
Pizza(*)
7:00 - 8:00 PM –
Program
(*) There is no cost to attend at McLean and Silver Spring.
Locations:
The presentation will originate at the FDA facility with video tele-conferencing (VTC):
Note the new building and room at the FDA.
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MITRE, room 1N100 7515 Colshire
Drive McLean, VA 22102 host: Scott
Ankrum cell: 240-731-7581 |
FDA, Bld 66, room G512 10903 New
Hampshire Ave Silver
Spring, MD 20993 cell: 240-429-3912 |
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MITRE, room
1002 260 Industrial Way
West Eatontown, NJ 07724 host: Richard
Eng cell: 703-201-9112 |
MITRE, room
1M306 202 Burlington Rd (Rt. 62) Bedford, MA
01730 cell: 978-758-2704 |
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If you can host
another location via VTC, please contact Scott
Ankrum (below)
Note: Beginning with the October meeting, there will no longer be a free (800) dial-in number for remote users. We will experiment with Skype. More to come.
For details & driving
directions, see the
October 2009 Software SIG
Announcement
Registration Website: http://www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913
You must register by noon
on Monday, October
26.
If you cannot attend at any location,
select telephone dial-in when you
register.
To RSVP for FDA (Silver
Spring), please indicate citizenship. If
not a US citizen, please provide your
title, employer, and address.
Allow two business days for
registration before the
meeting.
For registration problems or further information contact Scott Ankrum at: ankrums@mitre.org or 703-983-6127
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