James Lynn

SUTO Consulting

A partner with SUTO Consulting (sutoconsulting.com), James Lynn is passionate about delivering value to his clients by improving software development productivity and quality through enhancements to organization, process, and metrics; by transitioning work off-shore or reallocating work on-shore; and by developing business intelligence and metrics in his organization’s SaaS products to increase effectiveness for the end-user, resulting in higher customer satisfaction and improved renewal rates. For the past ten years, Jim has been an agent of change for several organizations in transition from waterfall to agile in the quest to improve performance and as the foundation to migrate heterogeneous applications to a single enterprise architecture. Reach Jim at [email protected].

Speaker Presentations

Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 3:45pm

Scrum

Scrum for Global-Scale Development

A global development organization—in seven cities on three continents—has developers all using agile practices to develop complex applications. In addition to the common problems faced by distributed teams, they must deal with attrition rates in excess of 50 percent, possible loss of intellectual property, and the need to integrate the work of multiple Scrum teams into a single build. James Lynn describes an organizational structure that includes implementation teams, known as “the Factory.” Developers in the Factory often have little in-depth knowledge of the application or customer.