Harnessing the best of social media, web 2.0 and agile processes

1. BE Interactive
Consulting
S o c i a l M e d i a , I n t e r n e t
a n d A g i l e P r o c e s s e s

2. BE Interactive:
BE Social, BE Agile
Butterfly Effect
Minor changes on the Internet have sweeping effects
One idea often spawns many other paths, options and strategies
One person can make a difference
Interactive Consulting
Social Media and Agile processes are evolving the way business gets done
BE Social: An effective consulting style, friendly advice; no sales pitch
BE Agile: A nimble organization and one that employs dynamic processes

3. Areas of Specialty
BE Social: Internet and Social Media
Connecting employees, customers, partners, consumers, buyers and
sellers across corporate boundaries via the Internet and Social Media
Discovering and encouraging tribes of passionate users, fans, customers
Embracing community features and web 2.0 concepts in your business
BE Agile: Agile Software Development Strategies
Effective, apt, meaningful engineering processes
Scalable technical organizational team structures
Best practices for product and project management, architecture and QA

4. Service Offerings
Assessment
Gauge your current utilization of Social Media, Internet technologies
and/or software development processes
Determines where you are today, where you want (or should) go and
provides a roadmap chock full of ideas and itemized projects with best
practice recommendations to get you there
Targeted Implementation
Focused consulting for a specific project or solution on your roadmap
Metric driven project execution: Implement a Social Media strategy;
Detailed process migration consulting;

5. Target Markets
Small to midsize companies having anything to do with software
Any company without a social media adoption plan
Startups predicting or feeling growth pain in software development
Traditional waterfall software development shops looking to change
Companies looking to do more in parallel with their tech teams
Technology companies looking for better way to prioritize initiatives
Any company without formalized QA processes

6. BE Interactive
Consulting
Brian Link was the technology executive of Digg.com
Managed and grew the development team from 3 to 20 people
Built QA and R&D organizations and processes
Evolved processes multiple times and built a scalable technical
organization on a custom Agile/Scrum methodology
Broad and deep background in technologies and consulting
Open source and .NET background
Software Development Lifecycle methodology strategist

7. Contact
brian@brianlink.me
614-402-5690
http://brianlink.me
twitter: @blinkdaddy
http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianwlink