Press Release Detail

First knowledge sharing session on Agile was organized by PADS with collaboration of Bahria university islamabad. A large number of people from different industries, professionals, faculty members and students were present.

Mr. Farid Zafar Cluster Head (Project Management) Bahria University was actively involved for all the arrangements at the venue.

Najam Farooq Alvi starting the program

Keynote Speaker

Mr Suhail Iqbal

The event was hosted by Najam Farooq Alvi assisted by following PADS members:

• Naveed Ramzan (Event marketing, co-ordination and communication)
• Rizwan Abbas (Technical assistance and content managment)
• Syed Jawad Shah and Kosar Latif provided administrative assistance.
• Jibran Bin Dawood (Multimedia and Photography assistance)

Kosar Latif reciting Holy Quran

About the the session

• Holy Quran Recitation : Session was started at 7:00 PM with the recitation of Quran by Mr. Kosar Latif.
• PADS Introduction : A brief introduction about PADS was presented by Najam Farooq Alvi
• Best Practices and Success Stories of Agile
• Mr Suhail Iqbal presented and discussed the best practices and success stories of agile which covers some of the following areas.
  • Introduction to agile and its manifesto
  • Umbrella term
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Agile Evolution
  • Agile Best Practices
  • Active Stakeholder participation
  • Architectural envisioning
  • Document continuously
  • Document late
  • Executable specifications
  • Iteration Modeling
  • Look Ahead monitoring
  • Model storming
  • Prioritised requirements
  • Single source information
  • Success Stories
    • Primavera
    • Symantec
    • Fidelity
    • Sabre
    • Swedbank
    • Springer
    • e-buddy
  • Agile Case Study discussion

Suhail Iqbal telling us about Umbralla term

Suhail Iqbal telling about Success Stories

Refreshment Break

Refreshment was served by the Bahria University to all participants of the session

Raheel Mirza and Kosar Latif are enjoying Samosas with Tea

Interactive discussion session

An interactive session was also held. The topic for the discussion was “Agile in Project Management”

The participants were:

• BarkanSaeed (CEO Vizteck)
• Muhammad Azeem (Ex vice president PTCL)
• Kashif Moeen (CTO Zigron)

Left to Right : Muhammad Azeem, Burqan Saeed and Kashif Moeen

Left to Right : Raheel Mirza, Jawad Shah, Rizwan Abbas, Adnan Saeed, Farid Zafar (Chief Organizer), Mrs. Suhail Iqbal, Suhail Iqbal, Naveed Ramzan, Najam Alvi & Kosar Latif

Group photo of all participants with Suhail Iqbal and Farid Zafar