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Thursday, June 25, 2009 from 5:45 PM - 9:00 PM (PT)
1. SaaS – Kim Terry
2. Reduce cost of change and encourage innovation - Adopt Agile Project Management – Ashish Gupta
Overview
Saas
SaaS is a frequent topic in the technology world these days. Come learn more about this exciting way to deliver software. Terrosa Technology’s Kim Terry will talk about cloud computing and Software as a Service; defining SaaS terminology, the SaaS market place, what’s accelerating SaaS deployments, and effects on businesses’ infrastructure & data communications.
Agile Project Management
Agile Project Management Principles and Best Practices for successfully managing projects where scope is not well defined, and requirements are volatile and evolving, new technologies are used that require some research and development and hence increases risk and time to market is very critical.
1) How is Agile project management different from traditional project management?
2) Where and why would you use Agile project management. What are the benefits?
3) How to start and run a software project using Agile project management principles and practices. Here I will walk through a case study with complete project life cycle using agile project management methodology with emphasis on planning iterations and releases and managing change.
About the Speakers
Kim Terry
Kim Terry is Founder and CEO of Terrosa Technologies. Terrosa provides Software as a Service (SaaS) Creation Services for software providers, SaaS Transition Services for organizations, and CloudForm Services Infrastructure Platforms and Data Integration. Terrosa’s technologies lower cost of operations and speed deployment of existing and new applications onto cloud computing environments. The company’s core technologies enable the move from in-house to Internet-based applications using virtualization, data movement controls, and custom deployments.
Prior to founding Terrosa Technologies, Kim was VP and CIO at 3n Global, a SaaS delivered mass notification services provider. Prior to 3n, he was Director of IT at Jafra Cosmetics and an IT executive at Transamerica. He also co-founded a consulting firm that sold, integrated, and supported technology used for field office and mobile data communications
Ashish Gupta
Ashish Gupta is co-founder and CTO of WoodRanch Technology, Inc. He is experienced scrum master and an agile coach. He has successfully led many Scrum teams at startups and Yahoo. Ashish has extensive software architecture, engineering and operational leadership experience with companies like Yahoo, Digital Insight, Webvan, Netscape and TCS.
more details at http://www.woodranchtech.com/foundingpartnersmenu
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