Agile Development: A Business Perspective on How and Why it Works

Damon Poole (AccuRev Inc.)

Business · Short Talk
Presentation
Tuesday, 17:00, 10 minutes | Room 203/204 |

Agile development impacts more than just the process of developing software. When done well, Agile practices allow you to obtain feedback faster, deliver more of what your customers want with higher quality and allow you to obtain a higher ROI more quickly than before. Attendees will gain a greater understanding of the underlying model of Agile development, learn exactly how and why Agile provides significant business benefits, and discover which of the many Agile practices contribute the most business value.

Damon Poole is founder and CTO of AccuRev Inc., and Agile software development company that is a member of the Eclipse Foundation. Damon has been involved in software development methodology and process improvement projects for over fifteen years at the Open Software Foundation, Fidelity Investments, and many others. Damon writes frequently on the topic of Agile development and works closely with AccuRev’s customers developing and implementing state of the art Agile techniques. Damon, who has spoken at numerous software development and Agile-related conferences, including SD Best Practices, Software Test & Performance, SCQAA, ACDM Conference, CCIUG, Q-Con, and Deep Lean, earned his BS in Computer Science at the University of Vermont in 1987. You can contact Damon at damon@accurev.com. His blog is http://damonpoole.blogspot.com/.