Date: Mar 26th, 2009
Meeting time: 5:45pm - 8:00pm
Meeting location: ASU Campus Biodesign Institute 1001 South McAllister Ave. Tempe, AZ 85287
Meeting topic: Recycling Old Tools to New Uses...
Agenda:
Agenda:

5:45 - 6:00 - food/drink
6:00 - 7:30 - presentation
7:30 – 8:00 - Q&A

PLEASE RSVP SO WE HAVE ENOUGH FOOD/DRINK.
Summary:
Some say everything old is new again. This is true with requirements management regardless of the type of project methodology you adopt. You have to identify them, gather them, prioritize them, and essentially manage them. The new agile methods like SCRUM require that for your projects you define, collect and manage your requirements just as you did before, but in new ways and new formats. So why not use proven tools and methods to do so? I will examine the benefits and shortcomings of managing requirements for an agile project method (specifically SCRUM) utilizing the Rational Requisite Pro tool. We will look at the opportunity to manage burn down lists and user stories as two of the important SCRUM process elements, and see how this “Old” tool can support “New” tricks.

Additional information:
Tom is a 30 year veteran of IT working as a change agent wherever he goes.

He has had a varied career beginning as a mainframe assembler programmer in teleprocessing, and graduating to managing several types of IT organizations, and his experience includes general management and company responsibilities for a couple of $20M software companies. He has managed or directed multiple QA groups, development groups, several data centers, customer service call centers and even marketing and sales. His experience is varied, including transportation,health insurance, general life and casualty insurance, real estate software and systems software used by as many as 250,000 daily customers. He has big and small company IT experience and has led many commercial and business development projects as a master project manager.
Much of his efforts have been on managing the organizational change necessary to focus his teams on the best manner of creating software while delivering cost effective, timely, quality deliverables. This has manifested itself through adoption of quality and development best practices and methodologies that are both practical and pragmatic. He has focused his efforts for the last ten years on being a student of the RUP and the Rational tools. He is a Certified RUP Solution Designer, and a certified SCRUMmaster. He has led several companies like AAA of Northern Ca,Utah and Nevada, BP-AMOCO, Grainger.com, State Street Financial and SEARS though successful Enterprise level RUP and Rational Tool adoptions. These companies represent approx. 700 to over 2500 IT staff – including global development efforts. He is also adept at using the Rational Method Composer product to implement these changes and uses his considerable organizational change management skills to get teams to change their behaviors to produce quality software on a timely basis.