Gary McCants

Session: The Payoff of Agile [Drupal Track, Intermediate Level]

Gartner's analysts (Thomas Murphy and David Norton) predict that by 2012 "agile development methods will be utilized in 80% of all software development projects".

Agile experimentation is high, and adoption continues to increase. But to what end? Is the approach to software development and IT really that important? Are there any real, recent examples of success with agile methods? What investment is required? What are the tangible payoffs for all this effort?

Join Gary in an interactive session to address these questions and more. Come prepared to consider and interact and leave with something about which to ponder.

About Gary McCants

Gary is a Principle Consultant with Improving Enterprises' Agile Practice. He entered the craft in 1986 and has played roles from Analyst Programmer to educator to CIO. Gary's passion is centered in forming and nurturing high-performance teams, and he has found agile methods to be the perfect companion. Being an old fogey, he is witnessing the pendulum swinging back to the simpler, common-sense methods that prevailed when our industry was newer and it was fun to solve our friends' problems with shiny new technology. His appreciation for technical excellence and higher thinking formed during his time at ObjectSpace, where he met the founders of Improving and many of the other speakers at this conference. Gary is a Certified ScrumMaster and possesses strength in product, project, requirements and testing management.