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Presented by David Douglas & Robin Dymond on Aug 15, 2008
Agile Development: A Manager's Roadmap for Success
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The whole "take what we think is important, but don't go all the way" paradigm is omnipresent in the field, and is one of the major cause of project failures.
Often, when new methodologies or technologies are introduced, there has been great in depth analysis of the potential pitfalls, and documentation on how to avoid them (often as part of the core methodology or tool or whatever). These are often ignored by teams as "not for us", "doesn't fit in our company", "people would never accept it", etc etc.
So then all of the severe flaws of the methodology, tool, technology, API, whatever which were thought about in the planning stage, are left wide open, and the people blame the methodology. Its -always- like that.
Francois's experience mirrors my own. In the past 4 years, I've only seen Scrum implemented correctly twice. I suspect 90% of those companies using Scrum do so in name only.
I've been scanning around agile material. Most are very large projects. My company have turned out projects with 3-4 team members max, working for some times less than 2 months.
Recently I've tested out a team where the team PM, was more "Agile Coach" role and the team consisted of a BA plus two developers. The result turned out good. No way of comparison, since from the start of the company we were into Agile.
The challenge presented to executives and leaders in organizations is to recognize the fundamental organizational design issues that sustained Agile adoption requires. At the end of the presentation we work with the audience on an exercise to define what is "done" for an enterprise Agile adoption. Insightful discussion and ideas are presented, including from Steve Greene and members of the Salesforce R&D team.
Innovel is a leading Scrum, Agile, and Lean training and consulting firm. Industry and academic contribution are core parts of our business. In addition to this presentation, Robin Dymond presented a new training simulation that has been made available at no charge to companies and consultants training businesses to use Agile methods.
Regards,
Robin Dymond, CST
Managing Partner, Innovel
Assistant Producer Learning and Education Stage Agile 2008
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