BU hosted a seminar on "Agile Approaches towards Software Development" on February 28, 2005. Mr. Ahmed Hafiz Ahsan, currently Vice President at JP Morgan in New York was the key speaker. Mr. Hafiz shared his experience regarding agile approaches towards software development, specially eXtreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Development (TDD) and SCRUM. Being an active iteration manager of XP, he pointed out the fundamental characteristics of the eXtreme Programming method. Dr. J R Choudhury, Vice Chancellor of BU was the chief guest of the event. Dr. Yousuf M Islam, Director of Research & Advisory Services, BU chaired the session.