Indiana FileMaker Developers Group

On October 3rd, 6-8 pm, Jason Mundok presents Collaborating Instead of Colliding with Your Custom Development Customers. Jason has nearly 15 years of experience developing and managing FileMaker and .Net projects. Jason is a Certified FileMaker Developer, a frequent speaker at the FileMaker Developer conference, and a consultant / coach to companies for Project Management and implementing the Agile Development Methodology.

When managing FileMaker development projects of any size, project managers and developers often find themselves competing with customers instead of partnering with them. Rather than battling over budgets, timelines, and features, finding ways to join forces to defeat common enemies will align all team members onto the same path, and heading in the same direction. We will discuss several project management techniques that you can use to make sure both sides of a project team (the creators and the consumers) share common goals and work together to defeat the common enemies of healthy projects and develop long lasting relationships.

Thursday, June 6th, Jeremiah Hammond, Senior Technical Project Lead at DB Services will present, Rewrite or Reuse – Evaluating Building a System from Scratch. We will look at a ground up rewrite vs modifying an existing system over time. Learn about his experience of migrating systems from Microsoft Access to FileMaker which requires a rewrite. In addition we’ll cover the decision process when inheriting FileMaker systems, focusing on whether to build from scratch or modify the existing FileMaker system.

Topics will include:

-Software case studies
-Natural tendencies of programmers
-Surviving a ground-up rewrite
-When you should never use the existing system
-Additional resources

*Jersey Mike Subs and drinks will be provided by DB Services.