July 1, 2009 6:00 PM - 35 attended
James Couzens: Suncorp's transition to Agile
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Suncorp is a large financial services organization currently undergoing a
significant shift in development process from a heavyweight waterfall process to a more Agile
iterative method.
This talk discusses Suncorp's experiences using Agile
when implementing a major system replacement.
Lessons learned from the process are discussed within the context of academic and professional
literature as well as related to the Agile principles and concepts from Scrum, XP and Lean methods.
About James:
James is a solution architect at Suncorp working on delivering a major change in Suncorp's claims processing platform from traditional mainframe transactional systems with an array of manually integrated supporting systems to a modern, integrated, web based claims system focused on the claims workflow. James' background prior to joining Suncorp has been a solution architect in a web solutions provider, enterprise consulting firms and business process outsourcing start-up. James has been involved in a
wide variety of projects including online solutions for travel services, superannuation management, government service access and national sporting bodies.
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JensGood evening, but for me a bit too high level but then I am still a beginner student of agile and scrum.
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Jason HarwoodI thought that last nights presentation was very interesting. It was great to meet other people from a variety of companies whom all share an interest in Scrum. I was particularly interested in listening to James experiences from Suncorp and how familiar his experiences have been to my own and indeed the insights into Scrum on a much larger corporate scale.
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PatrickNice presentation, amazing to see how many people have a sort of Scrum implemented, but not many with real scrum..
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Cathy Tang- enjoyed how it was casual with no power point slides - really liked the idea of throwing questions out to the audience in the first few minutes to gage how to well they would relate to your topic - Thought the format was appropriate. Ie, your presentation is brief and allowing the opportunity for FAQ to dominate the rest of the evening. - Good use of examples
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I have heard James before, this will be a fascinating, thought- provoking talk. Invite your friends!