NextStep'09 Presentations

   

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Paulo Rosado - Agile Vision

Agile Vision – The Inside Story
Paulo Rosado, OutSystems

Paulo kicked off the conference with a thought provoking keynote arguing the idea that ‘IT doesn’t matter and is just a commodity' was incorrect and described how and why IT is in fact the source of competitive advantage for many leading companies. He also warned the audience that because every good idea is eventually copied -eroding any competitive advantage - continuous innovation is imperative.

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Main Energie

Agility ² - Driving Business Agility through Agile Software Delivery
Andries Schilt, Main Energie

Andries Schilt talked about how Main Energie, which started in 2003, has become an award winning, Energy provider in the Netherlands by using the right technology. The real learning to be derived from the Main Energie experience is that Business Agility combined with IT Agility is where their REAL power comes from - adding a new dimension to Agile - Agile2.

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Carlos Alves Presentation

OutSystems’ Roadmap – A Glimpse of the Future!
Carlos Alves, OutSystems

Carlos made a preview of OutSystems products roadmap. He mentions the major highlights of the current edition and gives us a glimpse of the future, showing the next release Agile Platform 5.0 - a major update to the Agile Platform. It comes with great features for developers, users and business managers. Find out more in this presentation.

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Agile Trends and Challenges

Changing the Economics of Application Development – Agile Trends & Challenges
Mike Jones and Carlos Alves, OutSystems

"Can a company really innovate in today's economic environment?" - Mike and Carlos think "yes", and gave examples of how new ideas are coming up from the business. They can be small, but make a significant difference to business success - however, they may need custom built software due to the need for speed and flexibility.

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  Track 1 Agile Delivery Experiences
 
EON Benelux

E.ON Benelux: Using Agile to Quickly Adapt to Meter Market Changes
Marteijn Mout, E.ON Benelux

E.ON Benelux has been a customer of OutSystems since 2004. The project that Marteijn talked to us about was regarding how to support the new Government regulation which demands that Suppliers are responsible for the collection and validation of meter data of smart meters.

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Home Energy Presentation

Launching a New Company in a Fast and Agile Way
Miguel Barreto, Home Energy

Miguel showed several screenshots of their complete application including integration with GPS systems for home location and aerial pictures of the house and the ability for consultants to draw on house maps, allowing practically automated generation of certificates. Built with a team of 8 people in the first 3 months, this fully integrated system went into production on time.

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Xdx Presentation

Introducing Agile: Hidden Benefits (and some challenges)
Stefan Meier, XDx

Xdx is a biotech company that relies on software and technology for their Molecular Diagnostic Technology. According to Stefan Meier, after 15 months with Agile & OutSystems it is now the de facto standard for building web applications at Xdx. They have built 3 apps (7 production releases) and around 5-6 reusable services. A great success so far!

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Turismo de Portugal Presentation

ITIL over OutSystems – Excellence and Agility for Turismo de Portugal
Hugo Sousa, Turismo de Portugal

Turismo de Portugal, using OutSystems technology, implemented a centralized help desk system, and surpassed the 90% satisfaction mark. This allowed to gather data on the submitted incidents and have real time visibility on SLAs and satisfaction status. Hugo highlighted three major reasons why they picked OutSystems.

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Normatica Presentation

Making Public Services Agile through Process Automation
Marcelo Mendonça de Carvalho, Gabinete do Secretário de Estado Adjunto da Administração Local and Normática

DGAL's Project RJUE was built in two phases. Marcelo de Carvalho explained that the first phase automating the process from the perspective of the Town Halls, has been in production for some time. The second phase has just gone live and is going to automate the end-to-end process for people requesting construction permissions.

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  Day 2 NextStep - Track 2 Agile Platform Techniques
 
Glintt Presentation

Delivering Complex Systems with OutSystems - a Factoring Solution
Pedro Gama, Glintt

The presentation focused on how Glintt used the OutSystems to deliver a factoring solution to Finanfarma. According to Pedro, the project had an initial estimate of 3 years and 6 consultants, assuming traditional technologies. Using OutSystems Agile Platform, the project took 1 and a half years, with only 2 consultants!

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Epopeia Presentation

Embed Powerful Reports in OutSystems Applications
Afonso Metello, Epopeia

The Agile Reporting Services is a unified business reporting solution that covers the full report life-cycle, and it is seamlessly integrated with the OutSystems Agile Platform. Afonso addressed how this solution tackles a series of challenges other tools fail to acomplish such as fast change, easy to use, impact analysis and self heal.

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HyFas Presentation

Business Process Reengineering in an Agile Way
Rui Afonso, Hyfas

Refrige had a very complex material creation process, that spanned across 7 distinct departments. Communication was made by email and Infopath, and at the end of the process the IT department would copy the gathered information into SAP and BASIS. They picked OutSystems because it was faster and provided a reusable framework for future projects.

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Scoping and Sizing Presentation

Challenges of Scoping and Sizing Agile Projects
Nuno Teles, OutSystems

Agile projects focus on a clear business need and on understanding and designing the simplest effective solution to address it. The challenge consists of sizing a project based on fuzzy and high level requirements. Nuno mentioned how OutSystems uses a long proven sizing methodology, developed, refined, and revised over three years and more than 400 projects.

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Cool Profs Presentation

7 Reasons NOT to use Model Driven Development
Eric ten Harkel, CoolProfs

Eric took a look at how model driven development has evolved and outlined his thoughts on opportunties for improvement. He pointed out that development takes too long and is too hard with current tools. Although new tools will help the development time, these are useless without proper methodology. The winning formula consists in balancing the methodology, the organization and the tools.

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Whatever Presentation

OutPractices - Agile Transformations of any Software Development Process
Ana Pereira, Whatever Consulting

Ana talked about the Eclipse Process Framework which produces a customizable software process engineering framework. She focused on how OutSystems customers can leverage the EPF library to develop their in-house processes when they need to include the use of other non-OutSystems processes or methods.

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Gem Bleasdell

Adopting Usability in an Agile Environment
Gem Bleasdell, OutSystems

Gem started by highlighting the similarities between usability and Agile, including the fact that they are iterative and that they both mean extra value for the company. But, as Gem pointed out, there are also some fundamental differences, including the fact that usability is slower than Agility and most feedback is gathered from outside the team, as opposed to coming from the team.

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