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Making Agile Development work in your organization

Telerik & e-Zest Solutions Ltd. invites you for Two Free Seminars:

Agile Development

INTRODUCTION

The Agile methodology has been adopted by many organizations around the globe. Unfortunately, many still struggle with the various methodologies (XP, Scrum, Kanban etc), and can’t settle on just one. While some organizations are successful in implementing Agile with the development teams, they tend to forget other vital parts of the process, mainly testing.

Implementing your own Agile Process Seminar at Pune, India

A session on how to choose which Agile methodology (or how to mix and match several pieces) to implement in your organization and how to do it.

Are you new to Agile? Have challenges implementing an Agile process in your organization? Have you been using Scrum, but need to bend the rules to make it work in your organization? Are you interested in using Kanban? What about XP? Can’t get the business “buy-in”? Come and learn about implementing an Agile process that suits all your organisational needs.

The “buffet table” of Agile processes & procedures session is aimed at learning how to properly mix & match each process, will cover:

  • Defining XP, Scrum, Kanban and some other popular methodologies.
  • How to implement a custom process for the enterprise, ISVs, consulting and remote teams?
  • How Agile tools aids in implementing your unique process?
  • How to “sell” Agile to your business partners and customers?

Seminar Coverage
Time Slot

Free Registration
9:00 am-9:55 am

Speaker Introduction
9:55 am-10:00 am

Session on “The Agile Buffet Table”
10:00 am-1:00 pm

This session dives into the value of Agile testing, how to use automated Agile testing tools and how your organization will benefit from Agile testing.

As more product teams move to Agile methodologies, the need for automated testing becomes essential to generate the velocity needed to ship fully tested features in short iterations.

The Session will cover:

  • The differences between traditional testing and Agile testing.
  • Exploring tools and strategies, that can help make your automation more productive as well as how to get the automation effort started for both new and existing Agile projects?

Seminar Coverage
Time Slot

Free Registration
2:30 pm-2.50 pm

Speaker Introduction
2.50 pm-3.00 pm

Session on “Agile Testing”
3:00 pm–5:00 pm

Conclusion of Program
5:00 pm

SPEAKERS

Stephen Forte

Stephen Forte is the Chief Strategy Officer of Telerik (A leading vendor of developer and team productivity tools, automated testing and UI components) also a certified scrum master. Involved in several startups, was the Co-founder of Triton Works (acquired by UBM in 2010), CTO and Co-founder of Corzen, Inc. (acquired by Wanted Technologies (TXV: WAN) in 2007). He also speaks regularly at Industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently is a Microsoft MVP award recipient, INETA speaker and is the Co-moderator & founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group .

Christopher Eyhorn

Christopher Eyhorn is the Executive VP of Telerik ’s automated testing tools division, where they build the next generation of automated testing tools. Formally Co-founder and CEO of ArtOfTest. He has written automation frameworks and functional testing tools and has worked in a variety roles ranging from developer to CEO within the company. Christopher has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size and Industry. He is a licensed pilot that loves to fly every chance he gets and truly appreciates the importance of hardware and software testing every time he takes off.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Agile Buffet Table:
The discussion is advantageous for professionals, using the Microsoft .NET platform as well as Product Managers, Technical Directors, Project Managers, Architects and Sr. Developers.

Agile Testing:
Professionals interested in learning how to make their testing efforts more efficient as well as produce more automated tests at the end of each sprint as well as Project Managers, Software Quality Managers, Test/ QA Leads and Sr. Test Engineers.

Date & Time:

Tuesday, January 18th 2011
Agile Buffet Table, from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Agile Testing, from 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Venue:

Sumant Moolgaokar Auditorium, Ground floor,
MCCIA Trade Tower, ICC Complex, 403,
Near Senapati Bapat Road, Pune

Pre-registration: Mandatory

Kindly confirm your participation immediately by sending us your contact
details on seminar@e-zest.net

e-Zest Help line number: 020–25459802/03/04

e-Zest Solutions Ltd. ( www.e-zest.net ) is a CMMI Level 3 & ISO 9001:2008 certified, Product Engineering and Enterprise Solutions provider, focused on solutions and services based on Microsoft .NET (3.0/3.5/4.0), Sun Java EE (5.0) & LAMP. e-Zest is also Telerik Sales & Training India partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and Sun Associate Partner.

Telerik ( www.telerik.com ), is a leading vendor of ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WinForms & WPF controls & components, as well as .NET Reporting, .NET ORM , .NET CMS, TFS, Code Analysis & Web Application Testing Tools. Building on its expertise in interface development & Microsoft technologies.


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About the Author

Steve Forte

 sits on the board of several start-ups including Triton Works. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region and speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world. He has written several books on application and database development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press).

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