Agile Project Management and Reporting with Rally HD

Bio: Jim Damato is a senior technology manager with nearly 20 years of responsibility and accountability for taking enterprise software and cloud initiatives from vision and strategy thru rollout and support. He has been successful in environments like publicly traded companies, quick-growing startups, and federal agencies, starting as a software engineer in Silicon Valley in the hey day of the Internet. After the tech economy crash he landed in Washington DC leading large, technology-focused project teams as a government contractor. He was first exposed to early Agile techniques while in Silicon Valley. After moving east, he learned about a process called Waterfall and thought, “Why would you do it like that?” He never forgot his Agile roots and now helps companies implement their Agile strategies as a Solutions Architect for Rally Software where he is a product specialist and Agile expert.