Guest Speaker |
Michael McCullough, Technical Director, Quadrus Development Inc. |
Date |
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 |
Description |
Learn from our experience executing Agile into the constraints imposed by the complicated and integrated organization and culture at The City of Calgary. We are going to briefly describe the lessons learned from our journey from first deciding to look at Agile to actually executing and evaluating it. Our particular viewpoint will focus on how this played out in a government IT organization that is highly structured. Please use the Executing Agile_Presentation Slides link under the Presentation Slides Section below. |
About the Speaker |
Michael McCullough is a Technical Director with Quadrus Development Inc., an IT consulting and services company based out of Calgary, Alberta. As one of Quadrus’ thought leaders in Agile concepts, Michael plays a leading role in assisting Quadrus’ clients in the quick and practical adoption of agile paradigms and techniques through the application of Quadrus’ Agile Jumpstart methodology; an approach that integrates formal classroom training with on-site mentoring and ad-hoc coaching to teach, practice and apply agile techniques to real project delivery. Over the past 5 years, Michael has been helping fortune 500 companies in the United States and leading organizations here in Canada to understand, integrate and adopt Agile techniques in both project management and software development. In addition to his focus on Agile development, Michael has a background and experience in software development and project management. Robyn Johnson is a Management Systems Analyst in the The City of Calgary's IT Program Management Office. Robyn has been actively involved in project management and application development methodolgy since 2002. Her interest in Agile in Calgary started with a course on SCRUM, and ever since it has been her goal to introduce Agile to The City. Janette Scott is a Project Manager in Application Development with The City of Calgary. Janette is currently leading the Agile Evaluation project that was started in late 2007. She has an extensive background in software development and project management at The City of Calgary. |
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