Better Software Conference & Expo 2008 brochure

KeYnOTes ThuRsdaY, june 12, 8:5 a.m. Jean Tabaka Jean Tabaka is an agile mentor and coach with Rally Software Development. In addition to being a Certified Scrum Trainer and Practitioner, she is also a Certified Professional Facilitator. Her unique blend of passions and skills has been applied in a variety of organizations—large and small, co-located and distributed—eager to adopt the best of agile and bring out the best in their teams. Author of the Agile Software Development Series book Collaboration Explained, Jean holds a Masters in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. When not sharing her agile passion with clients, she resides in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. attacking Waste in software: Three practices We Must embrace now Jean Tabaka, Rally Software Development One of the seven principles of Lean Thinking is “eliminate waste.” Eliminating waste means minimizing the cost of the resources we use to deliver software to our stakeholders. Jean Tabaka proposes three pivotal practices that we must embrace to aggressively attack waste in software delivery—Software as a Service (SaaS), Community, and Fast Feature Throughput. SaaS eliminates waste by deploying software-based services without the cost inherent in traditional software delivery— materials, shipping, time delay, and more. Community involves stakeholders working together to create products rather than competing among themselves for limited resources. Community eliminates waste by democratizing software development to obviate the need for multiple systems with the same functionality. Fast Feature Throughput refers to development methods that embrace change and quickly deliver value to customers. It eliminates waste by responding to market pull with short, incremental delivery cycles. When IT and all software organizations embrace these practices, they will eliminate waste within their organizations, reduce the waste that consumes our entire industry, and ultimately support the broad 21st century global mandate to manage our scarce resources. ThuRsdaY, june 21, 4:45 p.m. Johanna Rothman Johanna Rothman helps managers define and solve problems. She assists managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective. Johanna has helped engineering organizations, IT organizations, and startups hire technical people, manage projects, and release successful products faster. Johanna is the author of Manage It! Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project Management and Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People, and coauthor with Esther Derby of the pragmatic Behind Closed Doors, Secrets of Great Management. Johanna is a host and session leader at the Amplifying Your Effectiveness (AYE) conference. Lessons Learned in project Management Johanna Rothman, Rothman Consulting Group, Inc. You’ve managed projects but they’re never easy. They don’t fit into the nice definitions found in project management books. Your schedules are generally off. There are always unkind surprises. Although you’re not failing, you feel you could be more successful. There is a solution. Based on her many years of consulting with large and small software teams, Johanna Rothman coaches leaders to take a more pragmatic approach. Employ mini-projects and iterations to explore alternatives technologies. Use incremental steps to finish features one-at-a-time when you don’t know how far along you are. Make sure stakeholders agree on what “done” really means. Learn how to escape the dreaded trap of “multi-tasking,” a management style that drains energy from everyone whenever there is a task switch. One final secret every project manager must discover: There is no “one right way” to manage a project. Everything depends on context—the company and its products, the technology employed, the people on your team, and you. If you can learn to keep everything in balance, you will have a successful project. Let something get out of whack and you can kiss all your hard work goodbye. cO cOnfeRence BOnus! one-year Digital subscription to Better Software magazine! better software Conference & expo attendees receive a one-year digital subscription (ten issues) to Better Software magazine—the only magazine delivering relevant, timely information so you can tackle the challenges of building better quality software, regardless of your role in the software d development lifecycle. www.bettersoftware.com If you are a current subscriber, your subscription will be extended for an additional ten digital issues. To regisTer call 888-268-8770 or 904-278-0524 or visiT www.sqe.com/bscereg 17 http://www.bettersoftware.com http://www.sqe.com/bscereg

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Better Software Conference & Expo Brochure Contents Conference At-A-Glance Special Events Conference Speakers 49 In-Depth Pre-Conference Tutorials 4 Keynote Presentations 42 Concurrent Classes Event Location and Las Vegas Highlights What Our Delegates are Saying Sponsors and Exhibitors Registration Information

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