About Aaron Hoffer:
Aaron Hoffer is an IT services professional with 15 years of experience. After earning a degree in mechanical engineering, Aaron went straight into software development with IBM Global Services. At IBM he specialized in object-oriented analysis, design and programming. He later left IBM to become an independent consultant and ended up working in Switzerland for several years. In Switzerland, he participated in an early Extreme Programming project with some coaching by Kent Beck. On returning to the US, Aaron went to work for Washington Mutual Bank as an object-oriented developer. He later moved into the architecture group to pursue software process improvement. The Sarbanes-Oxley legislation breathed new life into the program and Aaron became a principal architect of a new enterprise-wide system development lifecycle. Aaron stayed on to evolve the SDLC and participated in other process improvement initiatives until leaving Washington Mutual in 2007.
About the Presentation:
Transforming how an enterprise develops software is a difficult undertaking and success is not guaranteed. This presentation examines a few of the challenges that can occur in these undertakings and attempts to classify those challenges.