These briefings are addressed to IT professionals with responsibility for, or an interest in, developing software

IT-CMF New Process Improvement Framework: An Overview

The Information Technology Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) is a new and exciting framework that enables CIOs and business management to deliver more value from IT investments and practices. Using the IT-CMF, top executives and practitioners can adopt four inter-related strategies and associated maturity curves to help manage and deliver more value from IT:

• Managing IT like a Business
• Managing the IT Budget
• Managing the IT Capability
• Managing IT for Business Value

The event is presented by Sarah Farrell, Senior Consultant at the Centre for Software Engineering, who will provide an overview of the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF) and its benefits.

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Scaling Agile Projects in a Large Organisation

Increasingly, larger organisations are turning to agile or iterative approaches to manage their critical or more complex projects. This presentation will present the "Dos and Don’ts" for an organisation that is considering using agile for its larger projects.

This event is presented by Ian Lawthers Senior Consultant at the Centre for Software Engineering who will outline the agile approach, its origins and its current status. He will also discuss how agile can be applied to an organisation's key projects.

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Previous Events

The Agile Business Analyst: a tale of picture driven development – 24 February 2010

Presenter: Dave Halpin

Agile Business Analyst -uhh! surely a contradiction in terms if ever there was one. Turns out, an agile team is full of business analysts that are everyone, from the most junior programmer to the customer, calling the shots. They all share a common set of pictures and stories that can be used to vividly describe a system and its business context. In this session you will learn how to do analysis the agile way! Dave is a specialist in Agile Methods and Technologies and developer of Probelog™, a programmer's blogging tool.

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Managing Agile Projects in Distributed Environments: Dos and Don’ts – 24 March 2010

Presenter: Ian Lawthers

Increasingly, larger organisations are turning to agile or iterative approaches to manage their critical or more complex projects. This presentation will present the "Dos and Don’ts" for an organisation that is considering using agile for its larger, distributed or mission-critical projects. Ian will outline the agile approach, its origins and its current status. He will also discuss how agile can be applied to an organisation's key projects.

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Process Improvement: delivering efficiencies when budgets are tight – 5 May 2010

Presenter: Sarah Farrell

In today’s challenging economic climate it is increasingly important to deliver more value from your IT and to deliver tangible and measureable business benefit. Many organisations have committed themselves to improving their IT capability through systematic improvement, and have gained significant return on investment. Sarah will outline how organisations like yours can capitalise on the experience of some of these companies while minimising the cost to you. Some measurable benefits include: - Increased productivity- Reduced schedule time- Improved quality

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Web Development – choosing between Java and Ruby – 19 May 2010

Presenter: Dave Halpin and Diarmuid Flynn

The Ruby language, when used within a Rails environment, provides gains in the productivity of web developers. However, does this increase in productivity come at a price? This presentation will examine the architectural differences between web development with Java and Ruby and will highlight the trade offs that must be made when choosing one technology over the other.

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Max Agile

Get the real lowdown on how to get the most out of Agile Development at these series of CSE seminars hosted by the Irish Computer Society (ICS)

Top 10 Agile Pitfalls – 30th September 2009

Presenter: Dave Halpin

An X rated session of the most horrible Agile gotchas. These range from the technical to the cultural touching all spots in between - includes "Up Front Database Design", "Bleeding Edge Technologies", "Home Grown Infrastructure", and "Unbalanced Team". You might like to bring a big floppy pillow to hide behind.

Agile Design in Action - 14th October 2009

Presenter: Dave Halpin

A demonstration of agility in action bringing together bad code smells, refactoring, testing and patterns. Find out what it means to live, eat and breathe agility.

Migrating to Agile – 28th October 2009

Presenter: Ian Lawthers

Changes are needed in the work environment to move to an agile approach to development projects. This talk will consider those changes and the new dynamic that emerges.

Projects with a Difference – 11th November 2009

Presenter: Ian Lawthers

We believe that a “one size fits all” approach to managing a project is a mistake. A tailored approach to project management needs to take account of the environment in which the special project is undertaken within an organisation.

Cost

€25
Free Event to members of ICS and corporate members of CSE.

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