Monthly Meetings

July 25, 2007

Topic Summary: ITIL from an Agile Perspective

This workshop is an overview of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) from an Agile development perspective. 

ITIL is the newly accepted standard for IT Operations just like Agile is the emerging best practice and standard for applications development. As corporations continue to shift their data center operations to the ITIL standard it is becoming increasingly important for development to know and understand how to include the correct aspects of ITIL in their projects. 

It is not enough in today's complex IT world to successfully guide your development or integration project through their requirements, development and testing phases. Success now includes a detailed understanding of operational imperatives such as Configuration Management, Availability Management, Capacity Management, Throughput, Release Management, Help Desk Integration and End User Deployment.

About the Speaker:

Mr. Holstein has 20 years practical experience in all areas of Information Technology. He has worked in for profit shrink-wrapped software industries, consulting, and large corporate IT organizations.

He has technical experience in mainframe, client-server, call-center, and web based development and operations. He has written production systems in various technologies ranging from COBOL, C, and Pascal to C++, Smalltalk, Java and PHP.

Mike has developed significant experience in software development methodologies as well as many other IT processes and services. He has authored, or co-authored software development methodologies, project management methodologies, quality assurance methodologies, organizational development methodologies, and IT operations processes.

Mr. Holstein is a founding member of the Gartner Group High Availability Operations Best Practices Group. He is a Six Sigma Black Belt. He has a Masters in IT Service Management (ITSM). He is a member of PMI, a certified PMP and an instructor in Agile Requirement Development.

Mr. Holstein lives in Dublin, Ohio with his wife Valerie, their daughter and two sons. Mr. Holstein is very active in the Ohio Autism Community and is an advisory member of the Governor's Taskforce on Autism.

Meeting Info:

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 25th in the Smith Private Dining Room from 11:30am to 1pm. Please mark this date on your calendars. You can bring your lunch or purchase lunch in the OCLC cafeteria. To register for this meeting, send email to Linda.

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