3rd October 2010, Monetical Limited, Cambridge, UK, the sole provider of an Community System Integrator Service tailored for Alfresco projects accepts Alfresco's invitation to present a paper at its annual Developer Conference in Paris on 20th and 21st October 2010. .

The paper titled 'Agile Methodologies for Alfresco Project Implementation', with references to a number of €500k+ Alfresco projects, illustrates several important benefits why Agile is the right life cycle management choice for Alfresco projects.

jBPM language is right for demonstrating core workflow capabilities within a small number of Agile sprints
The ability to rapidly script and set-up a number of custom Alfresco workflows (using jBPM language) within the first few sprints allows BAs, Development and End Users to discuss in detail future requirements around working functionality; Aiding Sprint planning and suppressed any concerns the business may have had with regards the technology choice.

Rapid UI design and implementation with Share
Not having to write from scratch the Graphical User Interface or configure the appropriate customer document actions, custom dashlets enabled the project to demonstrate working/understandable features to the various user communities (personas) and fuelled collaboration and the prioritization of future sprint objectives.

Rapid prototype creation and presentation of complex features
Alfresco 'webscript' technology (javascript and XML) quickly accelerates sprint velocity, and end user feedback is quickly implemented within a short number of sprints without the need for complex project review and approval processes.

Emphasis on working code over detailed documentation
A single XML file containing all BMI entity definitions (the 'content model'), written using a simple XML vocabulary, enabled the project team to extensively understand and change this model within a few sprints without the need to produce detailed documentation.

Mapping Alfresco capabilities with Sprint task cards
Although Alfresco is an open source solution, the rich set of ‘out-of-the-box’ functionality eradicated the need to breakdown both business epics and user stories before implementation could begin.

About Alfresco

Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM). It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform. The open source model allows Alfresco to use best-of-breed open source technologies and contributions from the open source community, to get higher quality software produced more quickly at a much lower cost. Alfresco's goal is to not only provide an open source offering, but also to surpass commercial ECM offerings in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community.

For a comprehensive description of Alfresco, its services and their European Developer Conference visit www.alfresco.com

About Monetical

Based in Cambridge, UK, Monetical was founded in 2007 as the outcome of a collaboration amongst the following UK subject matter experts and thought leaders . Monetical is the first on-demand Agile Expert System. At the heart of Monetical lies a predefined knowledge base that highly distributed IT organisations can reengineer to serve their unique business characteristics. Monetical also incorporates a learning capability that steers the successful evaluation, adoption and optimisation of Agile lifecycle management rapidly, cost-effectively and with low risk.

For a comprehensive description of Monetical and its solutions, please write to info@monetical.com or visit www.monetical.com