Presentations
New Innovate 2011 (IBM Rational Software Conference) Presentations:
Title:ALM-2101 - Case Study: Agile Healthcare? Yes We Can!(PDF) (MP3)
Presenters: Kim Werner, Agile Coach, ATSC; Liz Parnell, Solution Design Mgr, BCBSNC
Abstract: Healthcare insurance is a tough business. With a constant barrage of new government regulations, mandates, and healthcare reforms, the way in which software is developed in the health insurance industry must change. The truth is that it takes too long to bring changes to market quickly enough to gain a competitive advantage before new changes and mandates require even more changes. Learn how a large health insurance company adopted a few Agile techniques, some good coaching, and implemented IBM Rational tools based on the IBM Rational Jazz platform to reduce time to market, lower costs, and continue marching along the CMMI, SOX, PHI, and HIPAA compliance path. See how the time factor from concept to code was cut in half and how inter-divisional barriers were removed. Learn how well-thought out tool adoption of IBM Rational tools enables Agile techniques rather than hinders them.
Title:ASC-2015 IBM Rational AppScan: Introducing Security, a First-Class Citizen in the Agile Software Development Lifecycle(PDF) (MP3)
Presenters: Bobby Walters, Technology Consultant, ATSC
Abstract: Web application security is often an afterthought during the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The false sense of security based on phrases such as: "SSL protects our data," "vulnerability assessments are routinely run on our network," and "our firewall will cover that" don't ensure the web application itself is secure. Two thirds of all web applications have some vulnerability. Consider the potential costs of paying for a security breach such as: legal fees, drop in sales, loss of customers, and correcting the production environment. The value of making security a first class citizen in your SDLC provides the ability to identify potential risks early in the development life cycle were development costs are much lower, the opportunity to mitigate those risks based on priority, and utilize best practices to remove those risks before they enter a production environment. Discover how AppScan can turn "Our site is safe" from a myth to reality.
Title:CS-1596 Agile Process Delivery Innovation Driven by Healthcare Reform Mandates(PDF) (MP3)
Presenters: Kanishka Badhwar, Business Systems Analyst, ATSC
Abstract: To meet the aggressive timelines for implementing the newly mandated federal and state healthcare reform, a strategy used by one of the largest healthcare insurance providers in Washington, D.C. was to employ commercial off-the-shelf products instead of engaging in custom in-house software systems development. This presentation shows how ATSC mentored this healthcare insurance provider on Agile inspired best practices and tailored the company’s waterfall software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes to give its business team more cost-effective and faster go-to-market capabilities for launching innovative healthcare insurance products. This case study discusses innovative process adoption approaches and tangible results measured in decreased cycle time to product delivery launch, as well as an increase in internal (company associates) and external (brokers) communication before and after product launch.
Title:QM-2106 Go Beyond Jazz: Rock ‘n’ Roll with Agile Application Lifecycle Management, Quality Management, and Automated Testing(PDF) (MP3)
Presenters: Eyal Abukasis, Director, ATSC; Pratik Bengali, Sr. Consultant, ATSC
Abstract: Testing is embedded within Agile teams, and with promising framework like Scrum, the delivery of the products has multiplied. It is now very hard for the test automation teams to catch up with the speed of product delivery. Scrum framework along with support of RTC handles changing requirements and demanding needs of the customers beyond expectations.
This presentation will help you understand how scrum of scrum practices can be utilized by product delivery and test automation teams to keep up to the speed with the product delivery team and meet the demanding customer needs as well as get the fully tested product out in time.
By utilizing Scrum of Scrum, RTC, RQM and RFT, test automation teams can meet the test automation needs of the product delivery teams. This case study explains in detail about how the fusion of Scrum with test automation and IBM toolset can be used to achieve at least 80% test automation productivity.
2010 Presentations
Innovate 2010 (Rational Software Conference) Presentations:
Case Study: How to Build a Successful Agile Test Team with Non-Technical Testers(PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Kim Werner, Sr. Management Consultant, ATSC
Creating a Testing Team from mostly non-technical Testers can be very challenging. This is especially true when the Team is spread out over multiple geographical areas. Building a Test Team and adopting best practices from scratch is not a trivial task. In addition to building the team, the act of testing itself needs to be more efficient and yield more value through the adoption of one or more Agile techniques. Technology must play an important point in the solution in order to be successful. IBMs Rational Quality Manager (RQM) and Rational Functional Tester (RFT) certainly fit this solution. This session is a Case Study of the build-out of a new testing team including the deployment and adoption of the Jazz-based IBM Rational Functional Tester (v2) and integration with IBM Rational Functional Tester, RequisitePro, and email servers. The case study focuses on a large Health Insurance organization that deployed an enterprise level Quality Management solution using RQM, and RFT.
Case Study: The world is flatter - software development and reducing barriers with Rational Team Concert(PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Thursday, June 10, 2010
Eyal Abukasis, Director, Eastern Region, ATSC
Pratik Bengali, Sr. Consultant, ATSC
Over the past decade, we have seen software processes, practices and tools used to transform and then re-transform. Not too long ago, the norm was waterfall development using best of breed tools often working in siloes. Teams were co-located and projects involved teams of 5-10 software developers who wore the hats of many (analysts, architects, developers, testers, project managers and deployment managers). Recently, everything became more complicated with much larger projects and teams, often geographically distributed, but by using integrated suites of tools and processes, we were able to take advantage of the flatter world. The playing field has changed once again with shrinking budgets, outsourced development and the need for fast results. Come and hear a real world example of the evolution of a team and a project that moved from silo'd development to JAZZ based solutions.
Quality in the Trenches Panel: Traditional? Agile? Something else?(PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Scott Ambler, IBM; Kim Werner, ATSC; James B. Massey, IBM; Reedy Feggins, IBM
There is a great variety of techniques and tools for testing and quality assurance. Should you embed testers into development teams? When should there be an independent test team? Should people pair program? Does refactoring work? How does test-driven development (TDD) fit in? How can you test user interfaces, services, and databases effectively? Do agile strategies really work? Do agile testing strategies scale?
Getting Started with Agile – Methods
Presented on Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Kim Werner, Agile Coach & Process Engineer, ATSC
Description: Is your team ready to do Agile development, but unsure where to start, which methods to tackle first, or if your existing tools will be sufficient? Join IBM and one of our top Agile Business Partners, ATSC, for an in depth discussion of Agile methods, where to start, and why a deep dive using Scrum, illustrated through IBM Rational Team Concert Express-C (Free Edition) can accelerate new teams in their Agile adoption to achieving rapid results.
Agenda:
- Review of Agile disciplines and methods
- Deep dive on Scrum
- Demo of how Rational Team Concert Express-C Free edition automated key Scrum activities
If you were unable to attend, please take some time and view the replay.
Agile 2009 Conference
Where Does Developer Testing End and Tester Testing Begin (PDF)
Presented on Monday, August 24, 2009
Abby Fictner, Agile Developer & Coach, ATSC
Nate Oster, Agile Player/Coach, ATSC
This is a trick question, right? In agile, everyone works on the same items together, at the same time. Yet, the reality is we’re not all interchangeable cogs. Developers and testers each bring their own, unique skills to the table. The key to effective agile is not minimizing our differences, but building upon the strengths each person brings to the team. Join us for this hands-on simulation and retrospective as developers and testers explore how agile teams build quality into their process, how each member contributes to that quality, and how we can avoid traditional testing pitfalls.
We’ll examine the various ways that agile principals and practices build quality into our process, and how these work best when programmers & testers work together. We’ll facilitate games and discussions on how traditionally cast “developers” and “testers” can use these techniques to best draw on their own unique strengths to ensure a quality product.
2009 Rational Software Conference Presentations:
Case Study – Rethinking Conventional Test Strategies (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Thursday, June 4, 2009
Eyal Abukasis, Director, Eastern Region, ATSC
Pratik Bengali, Sr. Consultant, ATSC
The introduction of software quality tools and methodologies to non-technical practitioners is often viewed as a challenging task when the objective is to demonstrate results of improved efficiency and productivity gains in less than four weeks. This presentation presents a case study discussing strategy, implementation, hurdles, lessons learned, and success - a 300 percent productivity gain - from start to end of a tool rollout, training, and implementation achieved by simply rethinking conventional test strategies.
How to Get Agile in 40 Days (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Kim Werner, Senior Management Consultant, ATSC
Agile is the latest craze being embraced by many companies, but there are many facets of agility, including tools, several Agile methods, and adoption techniques. It can be confusing how or where to start in order to be successful and maximize productivity and leverage best-of-breed new technology like tools based on IBM® Jazz®. This presentation walks through the steps necessary to become Agile in 40 days, including adoption techniques and where to start by leveraging the IBM Jazz tool solution.
Can Agility and IBM® Rational Unified Process® Coexist in the Workplace? Yes! (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Kim Werner, Senior Management Consultant, ATSC
Large and medium-sized organizations who have adopted the IBM® Rational Unified Process® (RUP®)and invested significant resources in process adoption and supporting tools might scoff at the idea of being Agile. It might be viewed as cowboy programming that certainly couldn't work in particular organizations because of compliance needs right - or could it? This presentation shows how organizations (or even parts of them) can adopt some Agile methods to be more productive yet still comply with RUP adoption and compliance needs.
2008 Rational Software Conference Presentations:
Applying Agile OpenUp in a New Team: A Case Study (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Thursday, June 5, 2008
Greg Gurley, Principal Consultant, ATSC
Nate Oster, Player Coach, ATSC
An initial release of a project had issues with requirements churn and late testing. This presentation reviews
the implementation of Agile methods using the Open Unified Process (OpenUP), a lean IBM(R) Rational
Unified Process(R), to release two of the project to improve the process. An overview of the Agile techniques
applied, Agile estimation and planning, challenges of applying Agile in a federal government environment,
retrospectives from the team, and real-world project artifacts are presented.
Case Study - Migrate Offshore Majority Development Team to a Unified Change
Management Environment Enabled by IBM(R) Rational(R) ClearQuest(R)
(PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Thursday, June 5, 2008
Arnold Cruz, Tools Specialist, ATSC
This session discusses the migration of a development organization from Visual Source Safe and Sablime to one common tool set: IBM(R) Rational(R) ClearQuest(R) enabled unified change management (UCM) and IBM(R) Rational(R) ClearCase(R). The presenter discusses the configuration and implementation of a UCM environment in which the offshore development team strictly uses IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client and IBM Rational ClearQuest Web.
From the Requirements Trenches: What To Do When It Isn't Like It Was In The Book
(PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Joseph Lamy, Process Engineer, ATSC
Rick Adler, Process Engineer, ATSC
Modern software requirements management techniques seem to be well understoodand well documented, but sometimes situations arise that don't fit the pattern.From transitioning a large base of requirements over time to the use case style,to dealing with the tendency to design the UI up front, to managing requirementsat the enterprise level, this presentation explores these situations andsuggests solutions, using real-world examples.
Agile Development Mechanism and Patterns with RAD (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
David Pitt, Architect , ATSC
Jaime Niswonger, Architect, ATSC
This presentation will describe how software developers can use Rational Application Developer (RAD) in conjunction with Java 5 constructs (Generics, Annotations), and the popular Spring and Hibernate open source JEE frameworks, to provide an Agile development mechanism. Attendees will see the productivity and agility the combination of RAD's productivity and integrated test environments provides, and how common generalized application architecture patterns support an agile way to construct applications.
Visual Models on Agile Project? You're Kidding Right? No! (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Kim Werner, Process Engineer, ATSC
Agile projects are known for their lean approach to software development. User stories over use cases, conversation over detailed written requirements. Visual models? Forget about it. Or should we?
A Look at Business Process Modeling Best Practices and Transformation to a System
Realization (PDF) (MP3)
Presented on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Kim Werner, Process Engineer, ATSC
Joseph Lamy, Process Engineer, ATSC
At IBM several products are capable of modeling business processes: IBM(R) WebSphere(R) Business Modeler, IBM(R) Rational(R) Software Modeler/IBM(R) Rational(R) Software Architect, and IBM(R) Rational Rose(R). Each product is quite different at its foundation, but fit certain market spaces. IBM sales can present vastly different, contradictory or even confusing ideas about each product. This session helps demystify IBM business modeling tools and how they may integrate with other IBM Rational tooling.
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