The Agile Approach to Software Package Implementations Webinar

by Sam Bayer

Experience (and a quick Google search on "software implementation failures") tells us that implementing software packages can be just as treacherous, if not more so, than their custom software development brethren.

So why not apply agile to mitigate the risks of these projects? Couldn't these projects benefit from less up-front documentation and more demonstrations? Wouldn't breaking them down into iterations and releases be wiser than adopting a "big bang" waterfall approach? Wouldn't it be better to get real customers engaged with real working software early in the project than to surprise them with an ill-fitting solution at the time that you're ready to release it?

In this webinar, Cutter Senior Consultant Sam Bayer answers these questions. He examines war stories of organizations and their attempts to purchase and implement COTS software and consolidates those lessons learned and synthesizes an overall agile approach to the selection and implementation of software packages.

After listening to the experiences that Sam Bayer's had as an agile "double agent" over the past several years, working with both producers and consumers of COTS software, you'll find that his presentation and its 20-minute Q&A will provide deep, experience-based insight.