Talk Topic: Agile Development
Damon Poole, Founder & CTO, AccuRev Inc.
December 19, 2007

Abstract
Agile advocates promise that Agile will provide the benefits of higher quality and higher revenues as a result of being more responsive to customers. But many folks object to the idea of working in pairs all in an open area using 3x5 cards for planning. They also worry that Agile is only for small teams composed entirely of their most senior developers. The problem is that Agile is often described as an all-or-nothing package. This seminar will provide a clear mapping of principles to practices to benefits. Learn the minimal set of scalable and proven practices required to experience the primary benefits of Agile as well as exactly how and why these practices work.

Bio
Damon Poole is founder and CTO of AccuRev Inc., a leading provider of Agile Development tools. Damon has been involved in software development methodology and process improvement projects for over fifteen years at the Open Software Foundation, Fidelity Investments, and many others. Damon writes frequently on the topic of Agile development and works closely with AccuRev's customers developing and implementing state-of-the-art Agile techniques. Damon earned his BS in Computer Science at the University of Vermont in 1987. You can contact Damon at damon@accurev.com. His Agile Software Development Thoughts blog is at http://damonpoole.blogspot.com.