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Wednesday, Feb. 21st, 2007
What Product Managers Need to Know about Agile Product Development
(Product Management Experience Series)
Agile product development has emerged in the software industry as a way to speed up project development cycles, while improving product quality at the same time. It combines recent technical advances with principles pioneered by Toyota in the 1950’s. The process includes creating smaller miniature software projects, called “iterations” within a short timeline (“timeboxes”). Each of these iterations is a complete increment of the software (integrated and tested) and could potentially become a software release (although in practice, commercial software releases tend to have several iterations integrated before ramping up a formal release). The methods and techniques of organization turn out to easily improve product quality, but surprisingly lead to much shorter development times. Get an introduction to the ideas behind Agile, why they work and the main management practices used in software development today.
Presenter
Stuart Miles – Dow Jones
Stuart Myles has over 15 years experience in the software development industry. For the last ten years, he has worked at Dow Jones, first at the Wall Street Journal Online - the premier business website - more recently for Dow Jones Newswires - the leading provider of
professional business news. Stuart first championed the use of Agile techniques when he was brought in to help rescue a multi million-dollar project that was suffering from delays and cost overruns. Since employing agile techniques, his approach turned around staff morale, improved product quality, and brought the project in on time and under budget. He has never looked back.
Event Logistics
Date : Wednesday, Feb. 21st, 2007
Time : 6:30 - 9:30PM
Location: Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
Dinner : Deli Buffet
Format: Networking / Presentation / Networking
Cost : $30 - PDMA, $40 - Non-Member, $15 - Student
Early-Bird (until Feb. 14th): $25 - PDMA, $35 - Non-Member, $10 Student
PDMA Members: Bring a Non-Member paying the above rate and your fee will be waived! Just let us know at check-in.
PDH : 2 PDH
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