Washington Area CTO Roundtable

The Washington Area CTO Roundtable is built around discussions of events and trends poised to have an impact on the technology industry. If you would like to join us or attend a meeting, please e-mail Yuvi Kochar CTO, The Washington Post Company (cto@washpost.com)

Current Meeting

Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008

Time: 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Continental breakfast will be served

Topic: Scaling-Up Agile Development

FINRA, the regulatory association formed by the merger of NASD and NYSE, faced an enormous challenge. In just over a year, the software development group quadrupled in both number of projects (8 to 25) and people (50 to 200), doubling again in the next year and a half to 50 projects and 400 people. We will learn how they transformed a historically waterfall organization to:

use agile and iterative development to successfully manage 50+ projects
get consistency and predictability from new teams
coach and train developers and project managers and
report and demonstrate success

Come hear of one organization’s journey of growth by sucking less every quarter.

Featuring: Larry Fitzpatrick: SVP of Software Development, leader of FINRA's Software Factory organization

The discussion will be led by Larry Fitzpatrick, SVP of Software Development, and leader of FINRA's Software Factory organization. Larry is a career software developer who has "worked the entire stack" from system architecture, design, and development. Prior to joining FINRA, Larry was the Technology Vice-President at Open Text Software (OTEX) and Chief Technology Officer at Personal Library Software. He has an MS in Biomedical Engineering (Informatics) from The University of Virginia.

Location: Headquarters of Nortel Government Solutions
12730 Fair Lakes Circle
Fairfax, VA 22033
Click here for driving directions

Date:	Thursday, September 18, 2008
Time:	8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Continental breakfast will be served
Topic:	Scaling-Up Agile Development
	FINRA, the regulatory association formed by the merger of NASD and NYSE, faced an enormous challenge. In just over a year, the software development group quadrupled in both number of projects (8 to 25) and people (50 to 200), doubling again in the next year and a half to 50 projects and 400 people. We will learn how they transformed a historically waterfall organization to: use agile and iterative development to successfully manage 50+ projects get consistency and predictability from new teams coach and train developers and project managers and report and demonstrate success Come hear of one organization’s journey of growth by sucking less every quarter.
Featuring:	Larry Fitzpatrick: SVP of Software Development, leader of FINRA's Software Factory organization
	The discussion will be led by Larry Fitzpatrick, SVP of Software Development, and leader of FINRA's Software Factory organization. Larry is a career software developer who has "worked the entire stack" from system architecture, design, and development. Prior to joining FINRA, Larry was the Technology Vice-President at Open Text Software (OTEX) and Chief Technology Officer at Personal Library Software. He has an MS in Biomedical Engineering (Informatics) from The University of Virginia.
Location:	Headquarters of Nortel Government Solutions 12730 Fair Lakes Circle Fairfax, VA 22033 Click here for driving directions