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Join Michael Mah (Senior Consultant at Cutter Consortium and Managing Partner at QSM Associates) and Zach Nies (VP of Products at Rally) to learn about a landmark study that resulted in unprecedented quality and productivity metrics for several major Agile initiatives.

You will learn:

• How Agile projects fared in terms of speed, efficiency, quality and cost • What the benchmark findings revealed against a database of 7,000+ primarily traditional development projects • How your team can use Rally and QSM SLIM models to make measurement easy

This session is an experience report from CampusSoft in the UK. The focus is on their experiences using Agile in a multi-site software development environment, in the UK, Romania and India. We will look at the motivations behind outsourcing their work to India and why the relationship with their partners in India led them to try using an Agile approach. We will then look at some of the approaches which were important for them to be Agile and the challenges that they faced, such as communication, working practices and culture.

How can user experience design (UED) practices be leveraged in Agile development to improve product usability?

In 2007, four years after the first Agile experiment at Healthwise, this organization was identified by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 15 small employers in the United States. Healthwise also received the 2007 National Psychologically Healthy Workplace Award in the Small Not-For-Profit category. Coincidence?. We think not.