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Agile and lean management practices (which we define broadly to include Scrum, XP, Lean Startup and other related approaches) roughly triple the success rate of software projects over traditional management approaches [1]. Despite these results, the software industry continues to start new projects using traditional approaches. Because software projects contribute so broadly to the human condition,...
“Lean Software Development” has become a popular term over the last few years. This tutorial describes where it comes from, what it means, how it relates to well-known agile development practices, and how it will evolve in the future.
While the business of Yangtze River and Pearl River delta in China is booming, most OEM enterprises attempt to maintain or exploit market through rapid development or innovation in the form of customized design. With the design period is cut down greatly, in order to improve design quality on the current situation of industrial design in China, this paper proposes the method of agile industrial design,...
Being agile is hard, and some organizations experience different challenges than others. In this interview, Steve Berczuk has a conversation with Yi Lv about the change process of introducing Scrum into organizations with different cultural, geographic, and size attributes. They focus on the role line managers and Scrum Masters play in establishing a sustainable Scrum culture. They also discover that...
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...
This paper describes a journey from 2004 to 2008 when SoftwarePeople in Denmark, together with a partner from Bangladesh, established a subsidiary company more than 7000 km away from Denmark. We hired 20 people in one week in Bangladesh and started to use CMMI processes to integrate development teams between the two locations with the goal of receiving a CMMI level 3 certification in 1.5 years. After...
Organizations developing software have increasing interest towards deployment of agile methods. However, there is a problem in scaling up scrum and other agile methods, since these were originally meant for individual team scope. It is not enough to deploy agile methods only on the team level - because of the dependencies that teams have between each other when developing large software systems, and...
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