Speaker: Carl Angotti, President of Angotti Product Development
Meeting Date: Thursday, February 6, 2020
Time: 6:00 pm Networking; 6:30 pm Management Forum/Guided Networking; 7:00 pm sandwich dinner; 7:30 pm Presentation
Earlybird: $12 IEEE members, $15 non-members; At the Door: $20
Location: National Instruments, 4600 Patrick Henry Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Directions: click map at right
Reservations: tems0220.eventbrite.com

SUMMARY
Management Forum / Guided Networking: Bring Your Management Challenge; Arrive by 6:30 PM to join this exciting Management Forum. Following informal networking is a guided discussion typically related to the topic of the evening’s after dinner talk, or of general Technology Management interest.

Light Dinner: Typically includes sandwiches, salad, drinks, and cookie.

After Dinner Presentation:
Agile Project Management techniques are rapidly moving in to become dominant for Product Development, especially in the areas of Software and Firmware. There is even some movement to produce a “Hybrid” model to include hardware and other facets of Product Development.

This presentation will be unique in that we will present a video, then discuss what is presented in the video relative to our own experience with Agile Implementation. This subject can be quite controversial, but it is well worth exploring for those either starting an Agile implementation, or who have one in process.

We will discuss two videos, one longer, and if we have time a shorter one. The longer video has a very provocative title “Agile is Dead” presented by Pragmatic Dave Thomas. This was taped at the GOTO 2015 International Software Development Conference. Dave has many years of experience in the subject. He has an interesting take on Agile and “Agility” in PD.

The second video is “7 Common Agile Development FAILS” by Jamie Edwards of Healthy Software Development, a long time software developer and PM. In working with over 30 companies, He has seen seven common agile software development process failures.

Join us for a Presentation and lively discussion of this two interesting takes on Agile PD in the real world. The discussion will be facilitated by Carl Angotti, the Immediate Past Chair of the IEEE TEMS Bay Area.

Speaker Bio:
Carl Angotti has been providing high tech product development consulting in the Santa Clara Valley for more than 35 years. He was the 2017-2019 Chair of the TEMS Silicon Valley Chapter, and has been a long time Board Member of TEMS-SV, the former IEEE Engineering Management Society, the former IEEE Technology Management Council, as well as the current Technology and Engineering Management Society. He was Chair of the local former TMC Chapter for three years in the past 8 years. He has been a driving force in keeping IEEE TEMS SV a vibrant and growing organization.

Carl holds an MBA from San Jose State University, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a California Registered Professional Engineer, and a Lifetime Member of the IEEE.