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Presentation: "How to measure productivity in software development"

Track: Agile Tuesday / Time: Tuesday 10:45 - 11:30 / Location: Don Giovanni 1

This presentation will give an entertaining and valuable insight into the wrongs and rights of how to handle and measure efficiency and effectiveness in software development.Topics:- "Do the right things" versus "Do the things right"- What complexity in Software Development means for measuring productivity- Dependency between efficiency and effectiveness- Which metrics might be able to foster the right behaviors and which are misleading.The topics will be enriched with real live examples from XING (one of the leading social networks in Europe). Also I will leave some time for discussing the topics with the audience (as questions will come for sure with this topic).

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Traian Kaiser, Director Project Management, XING

Traian Kaiser

Biography: Traian Kaiser

Traian Kaiser worked since 12 years for companies like IBM, Yahoo and XING and led many internet projects and programs in B2B and B2C environments. In his current position as Director Project Management he introduced project management at XING and was jointly responsible in implementig Scrum and Kanban as main development frameworks at XING. Beside he is leading the program and portfolio management activities from a project management point of view. He has a master in business administration and he is certified as Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).