Tom Poppendieck Presents 'The Agile Customer Toolkit' as Part of Rally's Free 'Road to Agile' Webinar Series

Who:

Tom Poppendieck
Agile development mentor, coach and author http://www.poppendieck.com/

Poppendieck is an enterprise analyst and architect and a seasoned Agile process mentor. He specializes in upstream, customer-side processes and in coaching development teams on how to transition to Agile methodologies. Tom has had many successes helping project owners and end users clarify and articulate their needs to maximize software development efficiency, system flexibility and business value. Along with his wife, Mary Poppendieck, Tom authored Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit, Addison-Wesley (2004) that won the Software Development Productivity Award in 2004.

What:

The Agile Customer Toolkit Webinar

To register, visit Rally at www.rallydev.com/register_for_webinar_series.jsp

Ineffective participation by business-oriented constituents is one of the most serious shortcomings of IT today. While successful Agile methods require close collaboration between the development teams and their customers, they often are weak in offering specific tools and processes that help customers deliver on their day-to-day responsibilities. This Webinar highlights proven tools and practices that Agile customers can use to collaborate with the same flexibility, productivity and quality that Agile methods afford developers.

Some of the tools and practices Poppendieck will offer include:

• Prioritizing and identifying important capabilities that ensure teams are positioned for success
  
  
• Determining specific features that best realize the expected business value
  
  
• Establishing reliable, collaborative interaction between customers and developers

This free online presentation is part of the "The Road to Agile" Webinar series hosted by Rally Software Development. The Webinars provide teams with practical tips and techniques for adopting Agile practices that help their companies win more business by increasing software development agility, responsiveness and productivity. Through live interaction with the presenters, Webinar attendees also have the unique opportunity to get feedback and advice on their own Agile development efforts.

Subsequent Webinars in this series include Mike Cohn presenting strategies for transitioning from test-last to test-driven development practices (Nov. 11, 2004) and Jim Highsmith outlining best practices of Agile Project Management (APM) (Dec.3, 2004).

When:

Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon (Mountain)