BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//Calagator//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Calagator METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20121104T020000 RDATE:20121104T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CREATED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130219T224257Z DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130301T130000 DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130301T120000 DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130219T224257Z LAST-MODIFIED;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20130219T224257Z UID:http://calagator.org/events/1250463677 DESCRIPTION:Over the last decade\, agile practices continued to gain a fo othold in many companies. Many of the practices were first tried on a s maller scale\, and tailored to green-field projects. But\, as agile pra ctices are adopted at multi-site\, larger companies\, with complex back office projects\, they bring with them additional and unique challenges. Take for example\, Cambia Health Solutions\, a not-for-profit\, health Solutions Company. Cambia has a relatively large IT group\, which deve lops its own software solutions and integrates software from other vendo rs. It has a distributed workforce that spans four states with many wor k-at-home employees. Cambia’s mainline business is regulated by various state entities and national agencies. Many of Cambia’s projects are lar ge\, mandated compliance projects that have a fixed time box and a set s cope. Missing either the deadline or scope could potentially mean losing a significant portion of its business or facing monetary penalties. Ca n agile practices work and scale to solve business problems facing the c ompany? What if you also operate within an IT organization that is stru ctured with functional silos? And what if you have reluctant business p artners who define software requirements and perform final verification of software solutions? To tackle these challenges\, Cambia organized an Enterprise Transition Community to lead the transition from a patchwork of agile practices to a large-scale agile implementation. Find out how we carried out this transition\, what we have learned along the way\, a nd how that might help organizations of all sizes take on a similar chal lenge. \;\n \;\nAashish co-presented a related paper with other Ca mbia staff at last year's PNSQC. You can find the paper here by searchi ng on Aashish's name on the page: http://www.pnsqc.org/past-conferences /2012-conference/paper-and-presentations/#papers \;\n \;\nAashish Vaidya is a Technology Manager leading Specialized Teams at Cambia Healt h Solutions. He is a founding member of Cambia’s Enterprise Transition C ommunity\, and other Best Practices Exchanges. He also serves as an inte rnal coach on Agile and QA practices. Aashish has over 20+ years working in technology development and leadership positions for companies such a s Compaq\, Intel\, and Kronos Incorporation. In 2012\, Aashish was a Co- Author and presenter at PNSQC. In 2011\, Aashish was a panelist on Tech nology Association of Oregon’s panel discussion: QA’s Role in Agile. He is a graduate of Texas A&\;M University\, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering.\n\nTags: agilepdx\n\nImported from: htt p://calagator.org/events/1250463677 URL:http://www.agilepdx.org SUMMARY:AgilePDX Downtown Pub Lunch: Cambia's Agile Transformation LOCATION:McMenamins Ringlers Pub: 1332 W Burnside St.\, Portland Oregon 9 7209 US SEQUENCE:1 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR