Mile High Agile 2012

The Agile Mile High event on April 3, 2012 in Denver, Colorado was a huge success.  The conference was for agile practitioners at all levels of experience in the Denver region, including those exploring agile for the first time,  This one-day action packed conference provides learning opportunities for agile novices, intermediates and experts, technical professionals, team leaders, managers, executives, and organizational change leaders.  What was different about this event it is unlike National conferences that require a substantial monetary and time commitment,  Yet there was so much to see, hear and discuss.

Bruce Douglass, IBM Chief Agile Systems Evangelist presented on "Agile Model-Driven Development for Embedded Systems" and Richard Knaster, WW IBM Agile Practice Manager presented on "Disciplined Agile Delivery".  IBM also had a booth to make customers aware of IBMs strong Agile offerings that include Rational Team Concert, Rational CLM and more.

If you live in the Greater Denver area, this is a fantastic event that should be on your must attend list.

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About the Speakers

Bruce Powel Douglass, who has a doctorate in neurocybernetics from the USD Medical School, has over 30 years experience designing safety-critical real-time applications in a variety of hard real-time environments. He has designed and taught courses in agile methods, object-orientation, MDA, real-time systems, and safety-critical systems development, and is the author of over 5000 book pages from a number of technical books including “Real-Time UML”, “Real-Time UML Workshop for Embedded Systems”, “Real-Time Design Patterns”, “Doing Hard Time”, “Real-Time Agility”, and “Design Patterns for Embedded Systems in C”. He is the Chief Evangelist at IBM Rational, where he is a thought leader in the systems space, consulting with and mentoring IBM customers all over the world, represents IBM at many different conferences, and authors tools and processes for the embedded real-time industry. He can be followed on Twitter: “@BruceDouglass”.

Bio: Richard Knaster is the IBM Rational Worldwide Practice Manager for Agile and CCM. He helps customers all over the world implement Agile methods, practices and tools. Richard is a member of IBM’s QSE Agile Leadership team. He has over 20 years experience in software development from practitioner to executive. He is also a contributor to the PMI Portfolio and Program Management standards and is an Agile Planning and Portfolio Management expert. Richard also has expertise in Business Process Engineering, Measured Improvement and is a PMI PMP, a mix that proves valuable when helping organizations’ transition from traditional to modern development practices.  He can be followed on Twitter: “@RichardKnaster”.