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Agile With A Deadline: Folly, Desperation, or Shrewd Tactical Move?
This case study will present the details of the first major agile project conducted by Century Insurance, a national provider of property and casualty insurance to small businesses. The development team at Century was tasked with building a mission critical b2b extranet site for their independent agency force in less than 6 months--with practically no written requirements up front! To get there, we decided to use a modified version of Scrum.

In the end, the project was a huge business success, but at what cost? We'll take you though an open discussion of the good, the bad, and the downright ugly consequences of our decision. Then we'll ask your participation and advice in the post mortem.

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About the Speakers: Rodney Gleghorn and Shirley Stephens 
Rodney Gleghorn is an Associate Director of Technology with Resource Interactive (www.resource.com). Rodney has been a software development manager for over 10 years and has worked as a technologist in the aerospace, manufacturing, financial services industries for over 20years.

Shirley Stephens, CPM, is a Senior Project Manager for Software Development with Century Surety Company (www.centurysurety.com). In her career, Shirley has led many critical IT projects. She has been extremely successful in applying flexible and agile process to the extremely volatile excess and surplus insurance market.

Meeting Info: 

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 26th 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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