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Key performance indicators are used by some large enterprises to alert executives to opportunities and dangers. Executives seek "leading indicators" to help them make decision early enough to make a difference. In large enterprises adopting agile practices, managers sometimes use behavioral compliance metrics to help teams self-assess or to gauge how practices are performed. These often...
Short release duration -- the time from starting development until it delivers measurable value (i.e., paying customers adopt an upgrade) -- is an implied goal of agile methods. Release duration incorporates the expensive parts of the value chain: build, test, deploy and sell (but not exploratory design, for example). Release duration correlates with technical debt. Attempting to reduce release duration...
Iterative development and Kanban are not mutually exclusive competing methodologies, in essence they are complementary processes that when used together can facilitate higher performance in large development teams. This paper is a walkthrough of the Network Gaming team's implementation of Iterative Agile alongside Lean Kanban here at WMS Gaming. The intent is to cover the processes created and the...
We describe our experience of training a remotely located team of developers and testers to prepare and execute performance tests. The team is located in India. The lead performance engineer and the test project manager are based in New Jersey. The team members had little or no prior experience of performance testing. We describe how we overcame cultural differences and a large time difference to...
Scrum focuses on collaboration with the customer, but what if your customer is actually a provider for yet another customer? Then who is your real customer? What if these two possible customers have a hostile relationship? Then who is your customer? These are the kinds of real world questions that we examine in this experience report. The report describes a situation involving a complex customer relationship...
Technique scrum is one of the basic in the agile-projects organization, in which takes part geographically distributed command of developers. The authors present system developed to support scrum -projects, which consists special component for operating time enumeration, based on gathering on-line information from the developer's desktop.
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