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AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Successful Integration of Agile Development Techniques within DISA
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) have historically operated on 18-36 months release cycles for major IT projects. DISA is now stri...
Sean Cohan
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Overcoming Fear with Trust
This is a story of how one project succeeded in delighting their customer, despite being put into the most difficult of all situations for an agile team – a fixed price contract...
Brian Button
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Push to Pull: How Lean Concepts Improve a Data Migration
A complex Enterprise Relationship Planning (ERP) data migration was in trouble: low quality, poor performance, instability, and an overworked team threatened project success. Faci...
Rand Bradley
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Agile: Adopting a New Methodology at Harvard Business School
As academic institutions become more reliant on Information Technology for everyday work and learning, Harvard Business School needed to find a better way to meet the ever-increas...
Susan Borges, Jennifer Gilmore, Sarah Edrie Olivei...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Back to Basics: The Role of Agile Principles in Success with an Distributed Scrum Team
Agile processes rely on feedback and communication to work and they often work best with co-located teams for this reason. Sometimes agile makes sense because of project requireme...
Steve Berczuk
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
How We Made Onsite Customer Work - An Extreme Success Story
The Agile Manifesto emphasizes customer collaboration over contract negotiation. No Extreme Programming practice embodies this more than onsite customer. This paper describes our ...
Michelle Williams, Jay Packlick, Rajeev Bellubbi, ...
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Forming to Performing: The Evolution of an Agile Team
Using Bruce Tuckman’s [1] “Forming – Storming – Norming – Performing” model of team development we review the effects of change on our team through each stage. We go o...
Darren Rowley, Manfred Lange
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Strategy for Balancing Business Value and Story Size
What would your Analyst team do when torn between meeting Customer versus Developer demands? When their needs conflict with one another, how do you appease them both? The report o...
Hai Ton
AGILEDC
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Greater successes by using Agile Techniques closer to the light bulb moment
BT, as part of its Agile transformation, has widened its Agile footprint into the demand-side of its business. This is being achieved by using Agile techniques in a forum called a...
Alan Armitage, Peter Wisniewski, Alan de-Ste-Croix