OTUG Meeting Announcement

OTUG March 2003


Date:Tuesday, March 18, 2003
Topic: "Agile Software Development with SCRUM with Application to Healthcare Mobile Platform Development"
A distinguished lecture by Jeff Sutherland, inventor of the SCRUM software development process.
Location: O'Shaughnessy Education Center (OEC) Auditorium, University of St Thomas, St Paul Campus
Schedule: 5:30pm - 7:00: Hors d’oeuvres
7:00 - 10:00: Lecture
(a dessert break will occur at 8:30)
Tickets: $20.00: Members
$25.00: Non-members
$10.00: Students
   
Slides: Lecture slides
Wiki: Wiki page for this lecture

Jeff Sutherland A distinguished lecture by Jeff Sutherland
"Agile Software Development with SCRUM with Application to Healthcare Mobile Platform Development"

Speaker:

Jeff Sutherland is Chief Technology Officer of PatientKeeper, providing on open mobile platform for wireless financial and clinical applications in healthcare enterprises. Voted one of the 15 most influential people in healthcare information technology in 2000, Dr. Sutherland has worked to promote and support patient safety and enhance physician utilization of critical patient data at the point of care. He has been CTO/VP of Engineering of nine software technology companies and introduced improved agile development processes to each of them. His work on reusable business object components through the Object Management Group, OOPSLA Business Object Workshops, and as an NIST Research Associate has led to development of new database products (Matisse), software development environments (Object Studio), CASE/OOAD tools (Synchronicity), as well as vertical applications in multiple industries. His work on component-based software projects has generated innovations in banking, insurance, library systems, aerospace, airline and aircraft leasing, nuclear engineering, and robotics. As inventor of the SCRUM software development process, his experience in organizational development has repeatedly enabled high-octane development teams to deliver world-class software products.

Jeff is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, has a M.S. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is an author of the Agile Manifesto, and SCRUM is now recognized as one of the leading new agile development processes compatible with Extreme Programming (XP).

Lecture:

SCRUM is an agile, lightweight methodology that rapidly delivers working software to customers and users. Dr. Sutherland, the inventor of SCRUM with over 30 years experience in software development, will describe how repeated project failures using the waterfall approach to software development led to studies of how the Japanese auto industry delivered record breaking, innovative products on time and under budget. Incorporating four decades of software engineering research on iterative and incremental development along with new findings in complex system theory and team process, SCRUM was created by adapting Japanese industrial process to software development. SCRUM has been successfully implemented all over the world since 1993. Three of the original SCRUM practitioners are signatories of the Agile Manifesto, and one of them is the program director of the Agile Alliance. SCRUM has been used in thousands of projects, including large-scale endeavors at Fidelity Investments, IDX Systems, TransCanada Pipelines, Microsoft, Cahners Publishing and hundreds of other organizations.

Schedule:

Hors d'oeuvres will be served from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. Dr. Sutherland will lecture until 8:00, at which time dessert will be served. Following dessert, he will continue his lecture and take questions, concluding his presentation by 10:00 p.m.


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