Lessons Learned in Agile Transformation
What’s This Webinar About?
As Agile development continues to cross the chasm, Web companies, SaaS companies, and mobile-centric categories have fully transitioned to Agile—and have done it easily. Meanwhile, companies in traditional industries are struggling with their Agile transformations—including companies in healthcare, hardware, manufacturing, energy, aerospace, scientific instruments and many other industries.
In this presentation, award-winning author Steve McConnell describes lessons his company has learned first-hand helping companies transform their organizations to become more Agile in ways that are right for them.
Duration: Approx. 1 hour
About the presenter, Steve McConnell
Steve McConnell is CEO and Chief Software Engineer at Construx Software where he consults to a broad range of industries, teaches seminars, and oversees Construx’s software development practices. In 1998, readers of Software Development magazine named Steve one of the three most influential people in the software industry along with Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds.
Steve is also the author of Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (2006), Rapid Development (1996), Software Project Survival Guide (1998), and Professional Software Development (2004), as well as numerous technical articles. His books have twice won Software Development magazine’s Jolt Excellence award for outstanding software development book of the year. Steve serves as Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of IEEE Software magazine, on the Panel of Experts of the SWEBOK project, and is past Chair of the IEEE Computer Society’s Professional Practices Committee.Steve received a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, graduating Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and has a master’s degree in software engineering from Seattle University.
What People Have Said About Steve McConnell
“Steve’s credibility as an expert in the field is astounding – impossible to overestimate the value of having Steve presenting this….”
“Steve was great. Nice to get his insights into some of the specific problems we are trying to solve.”
“Steve is a very down-to-earth presenter and instructor and he has a lot of credibility.”