Dharmesh and Susan’s presentation can be found here: Understanding Stories Through Improv . How do stories come together? Do you know the beginning to the end, or do they develop move over time? We will use Improv to help us understand how stories come together and how to be creative in figuring them out. Be prepared to actively participate in this workshop as we will be telling funny stories as we learn more about how a story may come together.
Director, IT Quality and Delivery Heartland Crop Insurance
Susan Smith is an experienced IT professional with 35 years of experience with software development teams. Susan has held many positions including IT Director, Quality Assurance Manager, Project Manager, business analyst, and quality analyst. Susan has experience helping several companies implement Agile processes from the ground up. These implementations have included highly regulated industries and SOx controls. Passions are in coaching, teaching, mentoring, business and IT process improvements, and delivering a high quality product with business value.
Dharmesh has been performing Business Analysis and Quality Assurance Analysis functions in Agile environments for over 8 years.
While being involved in Agile during early adoption stages and working in maturing Agile teams, he has elicited and communicated requirements in different formats depending on the stakeholders. Additionally, Dharmesh has a Masters degree in Business Administration with emphasis in Information Systems and is a Certified Scrum Master. In his spare time he shares his insights on his social profiles (Twitter and LinkedIn) and his blog – www.beagilist.com. He and his beautiful wife, Ami have a charming daughter, Mira who keeps them just a little busy.