Developer Conference 8-12 Nov 2010, Malmö, Sweden
Track overview
Tuesday: NoSQL Day
Session: Real Options
Friday, 14:15 - 15:05
Track: Agile
This session introduces Real Options and shows how it can help in running both your projects and your life. Real Options is a decision-making process based on Financial Option Theory and Applied Psychology that can be used to manage risk. Applying Real Options to software development explains why many of the Agile practices are so successful.
This session will help people discover options where they haven't seen them before. After this session making decisions will never be the same again.
Prerequisites
No pre-requisites to attend this session.
Expectations
What you will learn from this session:The practice of real options to know the tools we have now. The theory behind real options to help you create new tools.
Chris Matts
Chris Matts is programme manager with a strong background in business analysis and development. He uses real options and agile project management techniques (Lean, Theory of Constraints, Business Value) to optimise the delivery of business value whilst effectively managing project risks.
Chris has bundled together a bunch of other people's practices into an Agile Analysis approach that he named "Feature Injection". He was involved in BDD and Kanban in the early days.
Olav Maassen
Olav Maassen is a project manager for Xebia and a recovering software developer. He is co-author of “Applied Java Patterns” and an experienced speaker at conferences. His main interest is in helping individuals, teams and organizations work together more effectively.
Olav strives for continuous improvement both for himself as for those he works with. To be able to do that he is always searching for new ways to further improve current ways of working.
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