e-Zest: Agile Development India, Telerik Partner India, Agile Tools & team

Overview

Scrum is one of the most popular Agile project management & development methods, starting to be adopted at major corporations & on very large projects.

The Seminar will cover the core of Scrum like: Project Planning & Estimation, Scrum Master, Product owner & Burn Down, Daily Scrum, Negotiating with the business, Estimation & Team Dynamics, Using Scrum with virtual teams and an off-shoring environment. Also how to use Scrum in small organizations, in large enterprise environments and in consulting environments. Further the discussion will be on the tools, used for Agile Estimation, Planning Poker and Visual Studio Team System.

	Seminar Coverage	Session Time
Free Registration		9:00 – 9:55 am
Speaker Introduction		9:55 – 10:00 am
Introduction to Agile Development & Scrum		10:00 – 11:00am
Agile Estimation		11:00 – 11:30 am
High-Tea Break		11:30 – 11:45 am
Implementing Scrum with remote & offshore teams		11:45 – 12:15 pm
Agile Tools, Test Driven Development, and Continuous Integration		12:15 – 12:45 pm
Summary, Question and Answer		12:45 – 1:00 pm
Conclusion of Program		1:00 pm

Speaker Profile

Glad to Introduce Stephen Forte, the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Telerik (a leading vendor in .NET components), also he is the Regional Director of Microsoft for the New York Metro region. He is a certified Scrum Master, speaks regularly at industry conferences around the world and sits on the board of several start-ups including, Triton Works. He has written several books on Application and Database Development including Programming SQL Server 2008 (MS Press). He currently is an MVP, INETA speaker and is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group. Prior to this he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Corzen, Inc. (now Wanted Technologies), a New York based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms, CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also co-founder of the New York based software consulting firm, The Aurora Development Group. Stephen has an MBA from the City University of New York.

Who should attend?

The discussion is advantageous for professionals, currently exploring Microsoft .NET platform, like CTO's, Product Managers, Technical Directors, Delivery Heads, Program Managers, Project Managers, Software Quality Managers, Architects and Developers.

Date & Time:

Wednesday, 24th Feb 2010, from 9.00 am to 1.00 pm

Venue:

Shekhar Natu Hall, MCCIA, 403-A, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune-411016

Give-aways: First 100 registrations will get free T-shirts from Telerik

e-Zest Solutions Ltd. (www.e-zest.net), is an ISO 9001:2008 certified, an Outsourced Product Development and Enterprise Application Development Company, focused on solutions and services based on Microsoft .NET (3.0/3.5),Sun Java EE (5.0)& LAMP. e-Zest is also Telerik Sales & Training India partner, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner & 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.