September 29 2006
Business Performance & Project Management Show
RADTAC Seminars - 18th & 19th Oct, NEC, Birmingham
Following successful presentations at the Project Challenge Conference in Olympia, and at the Butler Group Agile Software Development Strategy Briefing in London in September 2006, David Hicks — Managing Director of RADTAC — will be delivering two seminar presentations at the Business Performance and Project Management Conference at Birmingham NEC. These will be held in Hall 17 on the 18th and 19th October, and RADTAC will also be available for discussions on their Stand in the Main Hall on both days of the BPPM Conference.
The RADTAC presentation discusses the key concepts of Agile Project Management and Delivery methods and relates it to the needs of the Project Management community. RADTAC has been delivering Agile solutions to business and to the Project Management community since the mid 1990s.
Agile delivery methods have been designed specifically to operate effectively in environments where a high level of change volatility and a low level of requirement understanding are anticipated. Agile has delivered significant success, in quality and speed of delivery, and provided productivity improvements of up to 200% in the software industry.
This presentation by RADTAC will discuss these improvements and also address the perceptions and concerns relating to Agile’s applicability outside of IT and across the organisation. RADTAC will argue by presentation and example that the prevailing perception of Agile of being solely appropriate for small projects of low complexity, but inappropriate for larger projects, programmes or organisations, is fundamentally flawed.
With ‘PragmaticAgile’, RADTAC addresses these issues by integrating and applying practices from the leading Agile methods, and delivering these into the corporate structure of an organisation, and within the chosen programme and Project Management methods and frameworks of that organisation. This allows Agile methods to be employed within projects that are both/either business or IT related. The RADTAC presentation will discuss the theory and practice of Pragmatic Agile, and visit some private and public sector case studies where RADTAC has applied the approach, and with great success.
RADTAC exercise and promote a Pragmatic approach to IT and Business Transformation, and to the introduction and delivery of Agile development practices and projects. We believe that being “Pragmatic rather than dogmatic” enables our clients to objectively select, adopt and adapt Agile best practices that meet the specific requirements of their projects, their environment and their culture. It is the promotion, enablement and adoption of Agile best practices that best describes the unique RADTAC approach of Pragmatic Agile. RADTAC has in-depth experience in all traditional and contemporary delivery and project management frameworks and methods, and has worked with many Private and Public Sector organisations to deliver significant productivity and quality improvements.
