Cisco Tech Talk: Tales of Adoption and Agility through Iteration and Innovation

Date
Location

ICCS X836 CS Boardroom

Speaker: Steven Fraser, Director, Cisco Research Center

Abstract: 

This talk will explore the intersection of agility and software development in a world of legacies and distributed teams. Organizations seek new and effective ways to expedite development while innovating to foster customer delight. This talk has evolved based on experience gleamed from multinational organizations developing and deploying large software systems - revealing in some cases – that what was once “old” is “new” again.

Bio:

Dr. Steven Fraser is the Director of the Cisco Research Center and responsible for managing Cisco’s external research program (gifts, contracts, consortia, fellowships, and equipment donations) and tech transfer – including the recruitment of PhDs and Post-Docs. From 2005 to 2007, Fraser was a member of Qualcomm’s Learning Center, with responsibilities for technical learning. Previously, Fraser held a variety of software engineering roles at Nortel including: Process Architect, Senior Manager (Disruptive Technology and Global External Research) and Software Reuse Program Prime at BNR’s CRL (Computing Research Lab). In 1994 he spent a year as a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Fraser holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor’s in Physics with a Minor in Computer Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In addition to holding leadership positions for the ACM's OOPSLA/SPLASH, the IEEE's ICSE and the XP20xx series of software conferences, he is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM.