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AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Social Nature of Agile Teams
Agile methodologies represent a ‘people’ centered approach to delivering software. This paper investigates the social processes that contribute to their success. Qualitative g...
Elizabeth Whitworth, Robert Biddle
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Establishing the Agile PMO: Managing variability across Projects and Portfolios
Our Portfolio Management Office helps to balance the demand on the firm’s resources from multiple competing and sometimes inter-dependent projects. Traditional Project/Portfolio...
Ash Tengshe, Scott Noble
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Scrum and CMMI Level 5: The Magic Potion for Code Warriors
Projects combining agile methods with CMMI1 are more successful in producing higher quality software that more effectively meets customer needs at a faster pace. Systematic Softwa...
Jeff Sutherland, Carsten Ruseng Jakobsen, Kent Joh...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Implementing Scrum in a Distributed Software Development Organization
This paper describes the start of the implementation of Scrum within BMC Software (Identity Management business unit). It describes the project, the project structure and the firs...
Hubert Smits, Guy Pshigoda
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Large Build Teams: Help or Hindrance?
Should we use build and deployment teams on large projects? Build and deployment work often emerges as a specialization on project teams. This specialization becomes important on ...
Julian Simpson, Shane Duan
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
The Growth of an Agile Coach Community at a Fortune 200 Company
Adopting Agile takes courage, perseverance, and continued reinforcement. To meet these needs, a community of Agile Coaches organically emerged at Capital One to provide support an...
Kara Silva, Chris Doss
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Sustained Use of a Test-Driven Development Practice at IBM
Test-Driven Development (TDD) is an agile practice that is widely accepted and advocated by most agile methods and methodologists. In this paper, we report on a post hoc analysis ...
Julio Cesar Sanchez, Laurie A. Williams, E. Michae...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Consciously Evolving an Agile Team
By now it is common knowledge that it’s just as easy for a team to fail using agile practices as it is with waterfall or any other method for building software. So what is the s...
Aaron Ruhnow
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Death of the Cubicle; the Open Office Experiment
Open office environments are critical to the success of Agile projects, but transitioning an organization from traditional cubicles to an open office environment can be difficult ...
Matt Plante