CA 2E and Plex Technology Event - Cincinnati, September 23, 2010

MORNING PROGRAM 9:00am – 11:30am

CA 2E / Plex Technical Update 9:00am – Meet and Greet 9:30am – 11:30am – Technical Presentations CA Product Management and other technology speakers will present on a variety of topics. Topics will include:

• CA Plex and CA 2E Status and Plans
• CA 2E Web Enablement using Web Option
• Modernizing existing CA 2E and Plex applications - using M3, WebClient, and TransacXML

LUNCH PROGRAM 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Agile for Business Advantage 12:00pm – 1:30pm We will have a special lunch on Agile methodologies, a new way of developing software that is paying off for many organizations by speeding development, lowering costs, and more effectively aligning requirements with results. Agile techniques can be used on many different types of software projects, from green screen maintenance to java modernization. You will gain some valuable information from two organizations on the forefront of the Agile development wave. First, Brian Boelsterli of Creoss will give a business introduction to the benefits of Agile. Second, MKS will present MKS Integrity – ALM tooling that includes support for the Agile development. REGISTER NOW »

AFTERNOON PROGRAM 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Agile Focus 2:00pm – 4:00pm The afternoon sessions will be a deep dive into Agile and how to implement this technology in your software development organization. At the end of the day participants will gain an understanding of how Agile and BPM will benefit their organization, especially in legacy code development environments. Topics will include:

• Practical advice on adopting Agile
• Project examples
• Relating Agile to legacy software maintenance and development
• Using Agile software to facilitate Agile methodology adoption

A real power lunch.

Be sure and find the time for our discussion on an emerging industry trend, Agile software development. Lunch will be served to all participants.

CREOSS Business Solutions

Brian Boelsterli brings more than 20 years of experience in assisting companies gain competitive advantage through the successful deployment of technology. Brian has authored a number of papers and books on "agile" development methodology. Furthermore, Brian and his firm, CREOSS Business Solutions, developed "Paceline", an Agile software engineering framework that accelerates agile principles that are currently being used at a number of "Fortune" and Government accounts.

MKS

Marty Acks of MKS will be speaking on software tooling to support Agile projects.

MKS is a leading Application Lifecyle Management tools company, with interfaces to CA 2E and CA Plex. Specific to Agile, Forrester Research, Inc. has assessed the state of the Agile development management (ADM) tools market, reviewing ALM vendors and Agile project management tools against 152 criteria. MKS achieved the highest scores from Forrester in the ‘Process Configuration’, ‘Security’ and ‘Running a Project’ subcategories of the analysis and received the second highest score for its current offering (scoring 3.92 out of 5.00, just 0.01 points behind the highest-rated offering).