How Well Does Agile Scale?
Monday, December 15th, 2008This email sent to a discussion forum discusses the experiences of a company with 27 development teams using Agile methods.
This email sent to a discussion forum discusses the experiences of a company with 27 development teams using Agile methods.
A video with multiple people in the agile community has been created to discuss what causes Scrum and agile to fail at this location.
The “Tasty Cupcakes” site has a plethora of experiential learning games that may be of interest to teams, coaches, and trainers.
Mark Levison rolls up a listing of post Agile 2008 resources on his blog “Notes from a Tool User” here.
This blog entry discusses the problem with having too many projects started. The problems are related to project portfolio management and how do we decide what should be started.
Jeff Sutherland describes to the agile community how Scrum came into being and how it’s roots stem from complex adaptive systems. This article has comprehensive information on Scrum early days including discussion group archives.
This presentation by David Anderson discusses what is Agile, how does the community embrace changes to its foundations, and his thoughts on what will allow us to express more maturity as a community. It is full of thought provoking ideas and potentially controversial methods that are rooted in existing theory and industry practices.
Mary and Tom Poppendieck describe a different way to think about mature organizations and processes in this article.
Is your organization or team working on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) implementation? Are you wondering if this can be implemented using an Agile approach? Check out how an extremely large organization, Bosch, has used an Agile approach along with Test-Driven Design (TDD) to implement SOA using a middle-out architecture strategy.