Northern Virginia Software Symposium

October 28 - 30, 2005 - Reston, VA


Sheraton Reston Hotel
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA   20191
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Ryan Shriver

Business and Technology Consulting

Ryan Shriver is a Managing Consultant with Dominion Digital, a Virginia-based Business & Technology Consulting firm where he's a leader in their Agile practice (dominiondigital.com/agile). He helps organizations and teams transition to Agile ways of thinking about solving problems, ranging from new product lines to operational performance improvements. Ryan's solutions typically use some combination of people, process and technology to deliver measurable results.

With a deep background in software architecture and enterprise Java, Ryan understands the challenges and issues facing development teams to deliver predictable results. His approach to getting senior leaders to define measurable objectives and priorities for their organizations, projects and development teams helps bring focus to the highest priority initiatives. Using agile methods like Scrum, Ryan helps teams iteratively deliver value quickly to the business...often in a matter of weeks.

Ryan's experiences with diverse companies and teams are the basis for his presentations on Agile subjects.



Presentations

Scaling Agility

Scaling Agility is a case study in leveraging Agile practices for larger-scale software product development.

The session will cover 7 major areas:

  1. Case Study Background - Brief history and project context for the case study
  2. Getting Started - Introducing Agility into the team
  3. Current Agile Approach - How our processes have evolved over time as the teams have grown
  4. Tools & Techniques - Things that have helped us along the way
  5. Lessons Learned - Feedback from implementing Agility
  6. Best Practices - Gleaned pearls of wisdom
  7. Recommendations - Things you may want to consider on your Agile project