Calendar - June 24th - User Group Meeting

Title

June 24th - User Group Meeting - The Who, What, When, Why and How of Agile Software Development.

Location

U of L: Duthie Center for Engineering

Start Time

6/24/2010 6:00 PM

End Time

6/24/2010 8:00 PM

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Description

Software Development Methodologies are constantly evolving –from no methodology to SDLC to Waterfall to Agile. However, they all seem to have their place and you may need to mix and match and evolve your own methodology to get software done. The goal is always to get the software development completed and users delighted, and the methodologies are just tools to get there. This talk will focus on the Who, What, When, Why and How of Agile Software Development methodologies and more importantly, hybrid Waterfall/Agile methodologies that are best suited for Distributed and Outsourced Software Development. The talk will also focus on adapting the best features of the Waterfall model into an Agile one and why you need to do it.

V-Soft Consulting’s white paper on the subject Hybrid Waterfall/Agile Software Development Methodology – A Recipe For Distributed Software Development Success can be found here: http://www.vsoftconsulting.com/DevProcessWhitePaper.pdf

Speaker Bio

Nari Kannan

Nari Kannan recently joined V-Soft Consulting Group, Inc., as Chief Delivery Officer. Nari has over two decades of experience in computer systems development, translating product and service strategy into meaningful technology solutions, and both people and product development. Prior to this, he has served as both Chief Technology Officer and Vice President- Engineering in six successful startups, two of which he co-founded. He has proven experience in building companies, engineering teams, and software solutions from scratch in the United States and India.

Nari joins V-Soft from Ajira Technologies, Inc., in Pleasanton, CA, where he served as Chief Executive Officer for more than six years. While at Ajira, Nari was instrumental in developing service process management solutions that modeled, monitored, and analyzed business processes, initially targeting the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Telecom, and Banking verticals in India, and Finance, Insurance, and Healthcare verticals in the United States. Prior to this, he served as VP-Engineering at Ensenda, an ASP for local delivery services. He also served variously as Chief Technology Officer or VP-Engineering at other Bay-Area venture funded startups such as Kadiri and Ensera. He began his career at Digital Equipment Corporation as a Senior Software Engineer.

Nari has a long involvement with Customer Support and other customer facing processes. At Digital Equipment Corporation he was involved with their 1800 person customer support center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was tasked with coming up with innovative tools to help customer support people do their jobs better. He holds a U.S patent for a software invention that automatically redirected email requests for customer support to the right group by digesting the contents of the request and guessing at which software or hardware support group is best equipped to handle it. At Ensera, he led a 45 person team in developing an internet based ASP service for handling auto insurance claims, coordinating information flow between end-customers, Insurance companies, Repair shops and Parts suppliers. Ensera was acquired by Mitchell Corporation in San Diego.

Nari holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Loyola College, and an M.B.A degree from the University of Madras in Madras, India. He graduated with a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1985.

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