Agile knowledge Sharing Session at Bahria University Islamabad (23 April 2015)
First knowledge sharing session on Agile was organized by PADS with collaboration of Bahria university islamabad. A large number of people from different industries, professionals, faculty members and students were present.
Mr. Farid Zafar Cluster Head (Project Management) Bahria University was actively involved for all the arrangements at the venue.
Najam Farooq Alvi starting the program
Keynote Speaker
The event was hosted by Najam Farooq Alvi assisted by following PADS members:
- Naveed Ramzan (Event marketing, co-ordination and communication)
- Rizwan Abbas (Technical assistance and content managment)
- Syed Jawad Shah and Kosar Latif provided administrative assistance.
- Jibran Bin Dawood (Multimedia and Photography assistance)
Kosar Latif reciting Holy Quran
About the the session
- Holy Quran Recitation : Session was started at 7:00 PM with the recitation of Quran by Mr. Kosar Latif.
- PADS Introduction : A brief introduction about PADS was presented by Najam Farooq Alvi
- Best Practices and Success Stories of Agile
- Mr Suhail Iqbal presented and discussed the best practices and success stories of agile which covers some of the following areas.
- Introduction to agile and its manifesto
- Umbrella term
- Agile Methodologies
- Agile Evolution
- Agile Best Practices
- Active Stakeholder participation
- Architectural envisioning
- Document continuously
- Document late
- Executable specifications
- Iteration Modeling
- Look Ahead monitoring
- Model storming
- Prioritised requirements
- Single source information
- Success Stories
- Primavera
- Symantec
- Fidelity
- Sabre
- Swedbank
- Springer
- e-buddy
- Agile Case Study discussion
Suhail Iqbal telling us about Umbralla term
Suhail Iqbal telling about Success Stories
Refreshment Break
Refreshment was served by the Bahria University to all participants of the session
Raheel Mirza and Kosar Latif are enjoying Samosas with Tea
Interactive discussion session
An interactive session was also held. The topic for the discussion was “Agile in Project Managementâ€
The participants were:
- BarkanSaeed (CEO Vizteck)
- Muhammad Azeem (Ex vice president PTCL)
- Kashif Moeen (CTO Zigron)
Left to Right : Muhammad Azeem, Burqan Saeed and Kashif Moeen
Left to Right : Raheel Mirza, Jawad Shah, Rizwan Abbas, Adnan Saeed, Farid Zafar (Chief Organizer), Mrs. Suhail Iqbal, Suhail Iqbal, Naveed Ramzan, Najam Alvi & Kosar Latif
Group photo of all participants with Suhail Iqbal and Farid Zafar