Agile Austin: Leading the Disruption

Description: BMC’s experience implementing Agile over the past four years is viewed from an end-to-end corporate perspective. Effects of successful Agile implementation in R&D on Marketing, Sales, Professional Services and Customer Support are interpreted as inevitable consequences of introducing a disruptive methodology. The set of processes BMC has developed to mitigate disruption and facilitate alignment across value chain functions is critically reviewed. Agile-based Market-of-One design is proposed as the antidote to the innate corporate drive to “harness” disruptions. This design is shown to be a most meaningful form of Agile from a customer standpoint.

Speaker Bio: Israel Gat is the head of BMC’s Distributed System Management – a business unit that is 100% “Scrummed”. His executive career has spanned some of the world’s top technology companies, including IBM, Digital, Microsoft, EMC and BMC. Digital’s NetView, EMC’s Cellera, Microsoft’s MOM 2000 and the BMC Performance Manager are some of the products he brought to market during his tenure with these companies. In addition to his experience with industry giants, Israel is also well versed in growing smaller companies and has held advisory and venture capital positions for companies in new, high-growth markets.

Israel holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the Israeli Institute of Technology and an MBA degree from Clark University. He lives in Austin, TX with his wife and fourteen year old son

Additional Information
Cost: Free
Map & Directions: From South of Hwy 183: Travel North on Mopac (Loop 1) exiting at Capitol of Texas Hwy. Make a U-turn before the traffic light. Go one block on the access road. Stonebridge Plaza One is to the right, with an entrance between the two towers. Building One is on the right as you enter. (map)
More Info: info@AgileAustin.org
Agenda: Sign-in and Networking 6:00 - 6:30 PM
Announcements, Presentation 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Q&A and Networking 8:00 - 8:30 PM

Proof of Attendance forms will be provided for PMI (PDU), ASQ (RU) and PDMA (PDH) re-certifications