Live Webinar June 8 2011 – 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by: Cutter Consortium
Speaker : Israel Gat, Director, Agile Product & Project Management practice

Technical debt reduction initiative brings business issues, organizational considerations and methodical questions to the fore. Moreover, when a technical debt reduction initiative is expanded from reduction to prevention of downstream effects, performance measures, governance issues and cultural aspects need to be addressed.

Unless all these issues are addressed in a holistic manner, their combined effect will likely stall the technical debt initiative, frustrating the efforts to wrestle technical debt to the ground at the enterprise level.

The Cutter Technical Debt Framework enables an organization to move onward and upward from assessing technical debt to reducing it and preventing its propagation.

The framework ties the measurement of technical debt to the fabric of the software process at six levels:

• Technical Practices
• Iteration Management
• Project Management
• Release Management
• Product Planning
• Portfolio Governance

By so doing, the framework ensures sustainability of the technical debt initiative.

In this webinar, Dr. Israel Gat will present the Cutter Technical Debt Framework. Dr. Gat will put special emphasis on critical success factors for making the technical debt initiative work for you, your company, its partners and its customers.

The second part of the webinar is dedicated to your questions. Don’t miss your chance to get specific advice from Israel Gat on how you can get a handle on reducing technical debt in your organization.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 5 – Scope 11 – Risk

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 5.2 Define Scope
• 11.2 Identify Risks

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