Broadcast Date: On Demand Duration: One hour
Speakers:   
Scott Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Corporation Bruce Douglass, Chief Evangelist, IBM Bryan Jacobson, Manager and Agile transformation lead in the LTC (Linux Technology Center), IBM Corporation Jeffrey Vettel, Agile Coach/Project Manager, Blade/Modular Platform Development Will Pagán, Lead Validation Architect, IBM Corporation Khurram Nizami, Worldwide Technical Enablement Join Scott Ambler and others in a panel discussion about how others are tackling complex agile development project. What agile practices are helping software and embedded systems development environments become more Lean? What are companies with complex development projects looking for from agile practices – as well as a tool environment that enables adoption and execution?
Are there questions you would like to ask of a panel engaged in supporting the adoption of agile best practices or tools in complex development projects?
IBM is deeply engaged in working with companies building smarter products – smart phones, medical devices, autos, airplanes – and, of course, in building IBM’s software, computer systems, semiconductors and more. Join an IBM panel to learn how our customers and our own developers are adopting best practices that increase agility. Learn how these complex, distributed environments with huge requirements for working across interdependent teams, delivering high quality products and components, proving compliance and traceability, and responding to as well as managing change can become more agile – with the right practices, tools, platform and process support.
Can best practices for becoming more agile help your company? Find out if the experiences of others like you can help.
About the Presenters:
Scott Ambler,
Practice Leader Agile Development,
IBM Corporation
Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development at IBM Corporation. Scott works in the IBM Methods group developing process materials and travels the world helping clients understand and adopt the software processes which are right for them. Scott is an award-winning author of several books, including books focused on the Unified Process, agile software development, the Unified Modeling language, and CMM-based development. Scott is a regular speaker at international IT conferences and is a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal.
Prior to working for IBM, Scott led the development of several software processes, including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies.
Scott holds a BSC in Computer Science and a Master of Information Science from the University of Toronto.
Bruce Douglass,
Chief Evangelist,
IBM Corporation
Bruce is the Chief Evangelist for IBM. Bruce has over 30 years experience designing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments and has a doctorate in neurocybernetics. Bruce is a well-known writer on these topics, having authored a number of books, including "Real-Time Agility" (Addison-Wesley, 2009), "Real-Time UML Workshop" (Elsevier Press, 2006), "Real-Time UML 3rd Edition: Advances in the UML for Real-Time Systems" (Addison-Wesley, 2004), "Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-Time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks and Patterns" (Addison-Wesley, 1999) and "Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust, Scalable Architectures for Real-Time Systems" (Addison-Wesley, 2002). He contributed work on the UML specification (both 1.x and 2.0), the "UML Profile for Schedulability, Performance, and Time", the "SysML Profile" and the "UML Profile for DoDAF and MoDAF" and is a former cochair for the Real-Time Analysis and Design Working Group in the OMG standards organization. Bruce teaches and consults all over the world in systems engineering and real-time and embedded systems development.
Bryan Jacobson,
Manager and Agile transformation lead in the LTC (Linux Technology Center),
IBM Corporation
Bryan Jacobson is a manager and Agile transformation lead in the LTC (Linux Technology Center) at IBM. Bryan has ten years experience managing teams that develop OS kernel features, device drivers and file systems. His current focus is accelerating the adoption of Agile by presenting training workshops, solving organizational problems and coaching development teams.
Jeffrey Vettel,
Agile Coach/Project Manager,
Blade/Modular Platform Development
Jeff worked as a project manager and agile coach for IBM Smart Business project for three years. In 2009, he moved to STG's Blades/Modular organization to work on the next generation of the Blade hardware/software offering. He is currently working on his second "new project" that is being setup as an iterative/agile project from the start. He is an advocate of continuous integration and automated developer unit testing/TDD as vital behaviors for an agile team.
Will Pagán,
Lead Validation Architect,
IBM Corporation
Will is the Lead Validation Architect, and a Master Inventor, in Blades and Modular Systems Software Validation at IBM. He is responsible for leading a globally distributed team of over 35 test automation developers, test architects, test engineers and project managers (comprising 5 distinct sub-teams) towards integrating superior quality IBM server and software solutions.
Khurram Nizami,
Worldwide Technical Enablement
Khurram Nizami is responsible for worldwide enablement of the IBM Rational products. His expertise is in helping customers and IBM by applying practical solutions to challenges faced by the software delivery community today. Khurram’s specialty and area of interest is Geographically Distributed Development (GDD). Khurram holds a Master of Science degree in Management of Technology from the University of Minnesota and is a PMI-certified Project Management Professional. He is the author of the recently published redbook, Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products. He has written multiple articles & papers for industry leading publications such as the Agile Journal and Dr. Dobbs. His current job focus is the jazz collaborative ALM initiative, particularly the IBM Rational Team Concert product.
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