Agilitizing your Waterfall

Richard Jochems, PMP,serves as a Project Manager for Progressive Insurance supporting Claims and Content Management. Rich’s responsibilities span all facets of program and project management, including consultative leadership, imparting end-to-end project support from requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation to proactive risk evaluation and documentation. Richard has been actively involved in Agile development since it's inception at Progressive. He's worked with Progressive's internal traing department to develop and teach an Agile Immersion class that is offered to all new Agile teams. He is a Agile conference alumni, having attended Agile 2005, Agile 2006 & now Agile 2007.

Richard Jochems, PMP,serves as a Project Manager for Progressive Insurance supporting Claims and Content Management. Rich’s responsibilities span all facets of program and project management, including consultative leadership, imparting end-to-end project support from requirements gathering, analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation to proactive risk evaluation and documentation. Richard has been actively involved in Agile development since it's inception at Progressive. He's worked with Progressive's internal traing department to develop and teach an Agile Immersion class that is offered to all new Agile teams. He is a Agile conference alumni, having attended Agile 2005, Agile 2006 & now Agile 2007.

Shane Rodgers is a certified Project Management Professional with over 7 years of experience in managing software development projects at Fortune 500 companies, and over 3 years of experience in managing projects using Agile development (XP). His education includes a Masters of Computers and Information Systems. He attended the Agile conference in 2005 and 2006.