In the past few years, agile development processes have gained increasing levels of adoption across all kinds of enterprises – small lean start ups to multinational corporations. Adapting to agile principles and practices can be particularly difficult for medium to large enterprises, where they can expose existing problems within the organization, and put new strains on weak points.

One area where this is common is product management. Practitioners of product management find themselves struggling to balance the need for a strategic product roadmap, while simultaneously addressing the budgetary and resource constraints of working within a release and sprint framework. The presenter will share an interesting case study where an excellent and successful agile team became de-motivated by a lack of overall product direction. He will describe how they bounced back by extending the agile principles beyond the realm of the development team, taking them into the product road mapping process, as managed by product owners and business sponsors.
Agenda:
6.30pm - 7:00pm Arrival, networking, refreshments
7:00pm - 7.05pm Welcome, user group news
7:05pm - 8:00pm Presentation including Q&A


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About the presenter

Anupam Kundu is currently employed as a Lead Consultant with ThoughtWorks North America. Anupam has about 12 years of experience in various stages of software development life-cycle and post-implementation activities as a programmer, business analyst, project manager and consultant. Anupam comes from a broad consultancy background and offers specific experience for managing large scale projects in multiple business domains including Telecom BACC, HR / Intranet systems in Investment Banking/ Private Equity Firms, Global Publishing and Media, Senior Care Systems. In his current role, Anupam is primarily focused on enabling multiple teams through active adoption of agile practices in the field of global outsourcing services and global distributed software delivery models.

New York City
Wednesday 14 July, 2010
6.30pm - 8.00pm

ThoughtWorks
1515 Broadway, 11th Floor
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