Open Tech Calendar

Glenn Crossley - Agile Toolkits to support Rapid Delivery in a Regulated Environment

Agile delivery within a financial services environment needs to be disciplined enough to be able to deal with numerous audits per year but rapid enough to strategically pivot to the demands of an evolving market. Over recent years a number of toolkits have been used from other agile frameworks or developed locally, which have now been made open source for the wider community to both benefit from and contribute to.

Currently, Gartner’s number 1 Top Influencer on their Peer Connect platform Glenn has a passion for agile delivery and helping others solve problems. Having joined Hitachi Capital over 3.5 years ago he has been recognised as the main driving force to help transform the organisation to new ways of working.
Outside of work Glenn juggles life with managing and coaching a kid’s u12s football team and building his own house.

Twitter: @Crozzg (twitter.com)

Rohela Raouf and Amy Morrell - Gamestorming

As business analysts it is important that we get the most out of our users and we do it in a creative and fun way. By using gamestorming tools you will be able to challenge your users to view and explore problems in a different way, this can result in innovate solutions being developed for your company. Gamestorming can be used in various ways; from planning a meeting, generating ideas, understanding customers, creating prototypes, or making better decisions. In this short presentations we will explore different tools and techniques that are available under game storming.

Twitter: @RohelaRaouf (twitter.com) / @AmyMorrellBA (twitter.com)

Timings
• Doors open at 6pm
• We start talking at 6:30pm
• We have a break
• We finish talking at about 8:30pm