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1. Next Meeting

May 13th 2008, 6:45 PM

Delivering Quality Software Using Agile Development Practices

Speaker: JannThomas

Delivering quality software on time is an art. Using development methods where weeks of testing follows weeks of development may have the following issues: The software team does not know when it is done, there is no list of what works only what does not, it is hard to determine what is in a build, the highest priority thing today may not be the highest priority thing tomorrow, there is tension between the software developers and software testers, the focus of team members can be on proving they are right instead of delivering software.

This presentation will give an Agile method for delivering software that is currently in practice in which, for every week of development there is a week of testing. Using this process, a team of developers and testing analyst have successfully delivered quarterly releases of management and control software for satellite communications with higher quality. By focusing on delivering our customer's highest priority features and fixes, this team has improved customer satisfaction.

One of the key elements to delivering software on time is to know when a unit of work is done. By integrating the software testers into the development team, the team can insure that each element delivered can be verified as complete. Furthermore, by creating a regression team that can test intermediate deliveries of software before the final release very focused functional testing can be per-formed and the quality of the product as a whole can be elevated.

Many methodologies describe the benefits of having the test team working on the software as early as possible. The goal of this presentation is to demonstrate an Agile method of delivering on that expectation.

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1.1. Location

IBM Internet Security Systems, Inc.

6303 Barfield Road

Atlanta, GA 30328

Phone: +1-800-776-2362

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1.2. Schedule

1.3. Contact

hcameron at optimussolutions.com

2. Upcoming Meeting

3. Recent Meeting

Speaker: KenRitchie

Did you ever find yourself working on a company internal project? Were there any risks or issues concerning requirements, scope, budget, tools, expertise, team turnover, progress, or expectations? Was the project ever re-scoped, re-launched, re-started...or canceled?

Ken Ritchie will present an experience report from his past few years as an agile trainer and coach -- with some success stories emerging from troubled projects. We will include an open discussion, so you can ask questions and share insights from your own "war stories" of good, bad, and ugly projects!