http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/taxonomy/term/334/0 en http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/522 <p>This session covers a successful transition to a new business model in a limited time span. Typically, Iowa Student Loan (ISL) sells bonds to fund the creation of private student loans. As financial markets deteriorated in 2008, the potential of successful bond sales diminished to the point of nonexistence. Heretofore, our systems assumed ISL as the only lender. Collaborative bank relationships changed this assumption to one of multiple lenders. A redesign of the loan program/loan type structure of our software followed to make the funding model very configurable.</p> http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/522#comments Customers &amp; Business Value Experience report adaptation business change configurable economy financial market fitnesse loan new business model private student loan refactoring scenario student loan user story 45 minutes Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:35:18 +0000 justindavisesq 522 at http://agile2009.agilealliance.org http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/494 <p>This talk discusses techniques that can be used to apply Agile practices to atypical technologies, and presents case studies on how to apply Agile practices to projects built with technologies including Teradata (Database), and MicroStrategy (BI). </p> <p><a href="http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/494">read more</a></p> http://agile2009.agilealliance.org/node/494#comments Developer Jam Talk acceptance testing automation ci continuous integration development practices fitnesse MicroStrategy tdd Teradata test-driven development 90 minutes Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:10:22 +0000 sdillman 494 at http://agile2009.agilealliance.org