IQ Technologies is hosting a complementary seminar on the Agile Software Development Methodology on February 29 at 11:00 at the Hilton Huntington in Melville New York. We will talk about the basics of the Agile Method and how the method can:

• Shorten the development cycle-time by 75%
• Create higher stability of work-loads
• Create higher utilization of work-load that is, developing large-scale, software systems with a fixed number of developers
• Allows higher flexibility of change of management & development plans
• Higher quality applications by earlier feedback from the customers.

The seminar time and location is as follows:

Hilton Huntington
On Route 110 at
598 Broadhollow Road
Melvelle, NY 11747
February 29th 2008
11:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Our speakers will be:

Nicki Kalokerinos

Agile Coach, Command Information, http://www.commandinformation.com

As a senior consultant in Command Information’s Commercial division, Nicki Kalokerinos has served as a project manager and Agile coach on several domestic and international engagements. Nicki has been responsible for leading Agile adoption on small development projects and enterprise wide initiatives for such companies as EMC, Fannie Mae and Govolution. Her current position at Command Information enables her to combine traditional IT project management experience with Agile methodologies. Nicki spent 3 months coaching in Bangalore, India, obtaining certification as Scrummaster. Her experience includes commercial, government and quasi government organizations looking to leverage Agile principles to improve efficiencies in software and product development. Nicki has over 11 years experience as a consultant with such companies as Andersen Consulting, KPMG Consulting, and Bearing Point. In 2001, she became an internal consultant at AOL for multiple website development projects, including AOL portal. Nicki is a graduate of Penn State and the London School of Economics, and resides in Washington D.C.

Rangarajan M Sampath

Rangarajan M Sampath is a practicing Software Consultant, Technical Director of FAST – Friendly Advanced Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd., an offshore arm of IQ Technologies LLC, USA. He has been practicing software project management for more than 12 years with various verticals. He has handled more than 15 complex offshore projects and major implementations of ERP systems, HIPAA compliant solutions and has been in the complete software development life cycles. He has also conducted a number of seminars and workshops on Software Engineering and Total Quality Management. Rangarajan is also a Guest Professor for leading Universities in India and currently authoring books on Software Engineering, Project Management and Management Information Systems.