PMI Houston The Woodlands (HYBRID): "Agile Project Management techniques for implementing Commercial, Off-The-Shelf Systems"

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Agile Project Management techniques for implementing Commercial, Off-The-Shelf Systems

Mr. John Haberstadt is LitheSpeed’s Director of Agile Consulting, as well as an Enterprise Agile Consultant, Coach and Educator.

John has led successful agile transformation efforts extensively in the Finance and Insurance domains since the mid-2000s. He additionally has helped guide organizations in additional industries as diverse as Healthcare, Retail, Utilities and Artificial Intelligence on their path to greater agility and value realization from their technology investments.  

 Topic Synopsis:

Agile ways of working are now the default for many organizations, especially for software development teams. But there continues to be a debate as to whether agile approaches are practical, or even possible, when implementing large scale, highly customized enterprise systems, often referred to as “Commercial, Off-the-Shelf” or COTS for short.

These systems often require extensive analysis and planning efforts to implement. Add third-party authorized implementation partners and contractual complexities, and the idea of leveraging agile ways of working can seem daunting at best.

So must we revert back to waterfall approaches to work with these vendors, partners and systems?

From our experience, across many different platforms, vendors and industries, the short answer is a resounding “NO!” Assessing and implementing COTS platforms can be done more effectively and efficiently leveraging agile technjiques.

Learning Objectives:

1. Debunking myths as to incompatibilities with agile approaches in implementing large COTS platforms

2. Understanding real differences in and challenges with leveraging agile approaches to implementing COTS systems

3. Having pragmatic, practical and proven techniques to incorporate agile project management approaches in COTS implementation 

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Earn 1 Business Acumen PDU

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