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A continuous integration system is often considered one of the key elements involved in supporting an agile software development and testing environment. As a traditional software tester transitioning to an agile development environment it became clear to me that I would need to put this essential infrastructure in place and promote improved development practices in order to make the transition to...
We report on our experiences from two commercial projects conducted under a new form of contract that supports agile development and encourages efficient collaboration between customer and supplier. We show actual extracts from our contracts and describe how to adjust a contract to specific project conditions.
Values can be powerful forces when applied to a small company. From their seed personalized practices are grown. By starting with agile values and then making them your own, you can instill a creative force for change and adaptation, a necessary ingredient for success. Traditional agile practices become personalized through iterative improvement measured against these values. Different teams can create...
As Agile is adopted by large enterprises, the number of transformation success stories has grown. But, transformation is an ongoing process, and maintaining organizational change is difficult. So, what happens after the success stories have been told? What can IT leaders expect once the Agile transformation honeymoon is over? This paper addresses these questions head-on, sharing Borlandpsilas transformation...
Menlo Innovations adopted agile software development practices in order to build highly effective software development teams that could produce software for Menlopsilas clients. As client needs changed during projects, it was often appropriate to change the size of the team working on the project. In order to accommodate the effective integration of new staff, and to remain productive when staffing...
The Support 2.0 team at our IT organization has recently completed Phase 1 of the Support 2.0 project. Phase 1 was a four month endeavor with a primary focus of collecting data to understand why support was so costly and identify the root cause for each support request. The team strongly believed that this initial phase would be critical to making significant impacts to the quality and supportability...
What happens when your organization practices Agile software development for many years? Well, you get pretty good at Agile and you are able to apply Agile with reducing effort on challenging projects. But there is another interesting outcome which is that your people internalize Agile values, so much so that Agile becomes second-nature to everyone! In this paper we will show you how our culture is...
Because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) never stops evolving, High Performance Technologies, Inc. (HPTi) found itself struggling to keep up with the changes while maintaining its CMMI III certification. Developers were complaining, clients were getting anxious, software releases were slipping. But what was the problem? Was it CMMI? Was it the environment? Was it HPTi? Through a disciplined...
Scrum provides a framework for managing agile development projects. It encourages transparency at all times, which helps reinforce the cycle of trust that must exist between development teams, management and the customer. Over the course of two years, our team had used Scrum to successfully deliver three revisions of our product with a degree of predictability that had been unattainable prior to adopting...
The following topics are dealt with: agile usability; agile project management; extreme product line engineering; agile software organisation; agile adoption; software engineering; CMMI; agile product management; team working and software testing.
Scrum, like most of the agile processes, was created with the software projects world pains in mind. However, more and more itpsilas getting clearer that those pains are not exclusive to the software world, and they are present in whatever projects where change is a constant. In the executive business world today, change is a constant, and be prepared to them is a must. This way, Scrum reveals to...
A team of consultants introduces agile software development practices in an ldquoagile hostilerdquo environment. This paper describes the chain of events that allowed them to covertly introduce and exercise agile practices. There were three distinctly different coaching approaches at play, and it was the combination of the three that resulted in successes. Enterprise change requires more than a single...
By late 2004, Scrum had been chosen independently as a development process by several teams at Amazon.com. From then until 2009, Scrum spread to a large portion of the software development teams at Amazon. This widespread adoption occurred in part due to the actions of a single individual and in part due to the natural match between Scrumpsilas characteristics and the culture prevalent at Amazon.com...
Agile success and failure stories are now plentiful and much can be learned from these experiences. Many examples cover a short duration. Our team formed over eight years ago and the core group is still together. Of the initial eight developers on the team, six remain on the team and the other two remain with the company. In our ninth year, the team and product have grown and continued to succeed...
The Sidky agile measurement index (SAMI) is a 5-step value-based roadmap to agility. The SAMI is designed to help guide organizations seeking to become more agile. Each of SAMIpsilas 5 steps (collaborative, evolutionary, integrated, adaptive and encompassing) aims to instill a new value in teams and organizations. This report shows how an organization that is just at Step 2 of the SAMI has realized...
Inkubook.com came into existence in March 2008 when an existing software development and marketing organization received a new CEO who immediately tasked the team with building an entirely different product. This paper describes the sources of pain that led to an evolution from the existing Scrum process through four major changes as the team's process shifted to meet the team's goals and management's...
A splendid way to know if you will succeed at agile in the workplace is to be guided by an agile experience in a volunteer organization, where little is masked. Volunteers became volunteers because, despite jobs, families and sundry other time consuming responsibilities, they see a unique reward from the donation of their time and efforts. The danger of the workplace is that, rather than keeping the...
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