Contact Bill Zack for event and ticket information.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM (ET)
Meeting Topic: Transitioning from waterfall to agile development for a large SOA initiative - the challenges and lessons learned
Building large, mission critical enterprise business processes is a challenging task involving several teams, dozens of services, need to work in conjunction with several legacy systems, and tight deadlines for delivering business requirements. This talk will present an overview of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) project aimed at transforming key business processes. Initially executed using waterfall development methodology, the project adopted an agile approach soon after the initial phase. Bulk of the presentation will cover the challenges and lessons learned transitioning from waterfall to agile. The presentation will outline the technical and organizational challenges as well as the strategies adopted to address them.
Speaker: Vijay Narayanan
Vijay Narayanan is an Application Architect & Team Lead at Client & Account Data team, within the Global Wealth Management Technology organization at Bank of America - Merrill Lynch. He has been working for the past 7 years in master data management services, reliable messaging, enterprise application integration, and distributed computing. He is part of the team responsible for technology strategy and enterprise transformation. He leads a team, building reusable data services and business processes. He has a Masters in Information Systems from Drexel University and blogs at http://softwarereuse.wordpress.com/
The meeting will be held in the Majestic room.
Refreshments for this meeting will be sponsored by Microsoft.
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