Please join the Central Ohio Agile Alliance (COHAA) as we welcome Ryan Martens, Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Rally Software, to Columbus. We will discuss the journey to scaling agility. This 45 min talk is about the social contract you make when you decide to "go Agile."
Date: July 30th, 2009 Time: 6 pm - 8 pm
Agenda: 6 to 6:30 pm- Networking 6:30 to 8 pm- Presentation and discussions
Location: OCLC 6565 Kilgour Place Dublin, OH 43017-3395
Food will be provided. Please RSVP at COHAA.
This 45 min talk is about the social contract you make when you decide to "go Agile." The agile journey is different for every team and group, there is no cookbook, but there is an approach that is based on lean thinking. At Rally, we have been using this approach with our customers to help accelerated and scope the transition. The journey is easy, but it requires some commitment to improvement and openness to learn and adapt. The ROI for agile is well documented and this is starting to create a "pull" from above. This does not change the approach to adoption, but it does mean the folks on the journey must now manage risks and expectations up, down and middle out. Without those expectations the journey can become slow and frustrating. I hope to impart tools for you to make your journey effective, rewarding and fun.
About the Presenter Ryan Marten.
Ryan Martens brings to Rally proven leadership in dynamic, high growth software companies and is an expert in assisting organizations transition from traditional development processes to more Agile techniques. Before founding Rally Software Development his fourth software start-up Ryan directed the corporate adoption of Internet technologies within Qwest Communications, and then moved on to co-found Avitek, a Boulder-based custom software development firm where he served as Vice President of Marketing & Business Development. Ryan's successful efforts at Avitek culminated in an acquisition by BEA Systems in 1999. At BEA, Ryan served as Director of Product Management for the eCommerce applications division and he was instrumental in growing that division to more than $50 million in revenue within its first twelve months.
Ryan is an alumnus of the Colorado Chapter of Young Entrepreneurs' Organization and is also involved in a variety of community organizations including Colorado Conservation Trust, the Knight Foundation and the Entrepreneur Foundation of Colorado. Most recently, Ryan was named as a semi-finalist for the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year award. Ryan received his Masters in Business Administration and his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder
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