Adopting agile practices is often a long process and one for which there is no existing formula for success. Some common patterns are beginning to emerge, but many of them focus on adoption within larger organizations. While we went through the process of adopting agile practices at IASTA, we experienced several challenges that seemed to be somewhat unique, or at least more common, in a small, organic growth organization. Finding advice and guidance on these challenges that could be implemented in our environment from the popular resources was challenging. This paper tells the story of our agile adoption process in hopes that other organizations in similar situations can learn from our experience.
{"title":"Evolving to Agile: A Story of Agile Adoption at a Small SaaS Company","authors":"Matt Block","doi":"10.1109/AGILE.2011.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGILE.2011.16","url":null,"abstract":"Adopting agile practices is often a long process and one for which there is no existing formula for success. Some common patterns are beginning to emerge, but many of them focus on adoption within larger organizations. While we went through the process of adopting agile practices at IASTA, we experienced several challenges that seemed to be somewhat unique, or at least more common, in a small, organic growth organization. Finding advice and guidance on these challenges that could be implemented in our environment from the popular resources was challenging. This paper tells the story of our agile adoption process in hopes that other organizations in similar situations can learn from our experience.","PeriodicalId":133654,"journal":{"name":"2011 AGILE Conference","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124891294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dealing with customer support issues can often affect Agile teams negatively. It can impact both their focus on new features and their predictability. This paper shows how Fundamo made use of a Kanban system to take control of their customer support issues and drive quality improvements in their Agile development process.
{"title":"Taming the Customer Support Queue: A Kanban Experience Report","authors":"Karen Greaves","doi":"10.1109/AGILE.2011.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGILE.2011.9","url":null,"abstract":"Dealing with customer support issues can often affect Agile teams negatively. It can impact both their focus on new features and their predictability. This paper shows how Fundamo made use of a Kanban system to take control of their customer support issues and drive quality improvements in their Agile development process.","PeriodicalId":133654,"journal":{"name":"2011 AGILE Conference","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126005785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Agile methods form an alternative to waterfall methodologies. Little is known about activity composition, the proportion of varying activities in agile processes and the extent to which the proportions of activities differ from "waterfall" processes. In the current study, we examine the variation in per formative routines in one large agile and traditional lifecycle project using an event sequencing method. Our analysis shows that the enactment of waterfall and agile routines differ significantly suggesting that agile process is composed of fewer activities which are repeated iteratively1.
{"title":"Enacted Routines in Agile and Waterfall Processes","authors":"B. V. Thummadi, Omri Shiv, K. Lyytinen","doi":"10.1109/AGILE.2011.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGILE.2011.29","url":null,"abstract":"Agile methods form an alternative to waterfall methodologies. Little is known about activity composition, the proportion of varying activities in agile processes and the extent to which the proportions of activities differ from \"waterfall\" processes. In the current study, we examine the variation in per formative routines in one large agile and traditional lifecycle project using an event sequencing method. Our analysis shows that the enactment of waterfall and agile routines differ significantly suggesting that agile process is composed of fewer activities which are repeated iteratively1.","PeriodicalId":133654,"journal":{"name":"2011 AGILE Conference","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116977495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper describes different approaches to successfully conquering complacency and ruts in agile practice. It relates how a team on a slide, that was drifting away from the "spirit" of agile, changed itself to a "wow" team by seeing every problem as an opportunity, converting small thoughts into great ideas and finding innovative solutions for problems.
{"title":"From \"Team\" to \"Wow Team\": An Agile Team's Journey","authors":"Gaurav Tiwari, Z. Alikhan","doi":"10.1109/AGILE.2011.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AGILE.2011.41","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes different approaches to successfully conquering complacency and ruts in agile practice. It relates how a team on a slide, that was drifting away from the \"spirit\" of agile, changed itself to a \"wow\" team by seeing every problem as an opportunity, converting small thoughts into great ideas and finding innovative solutions for problems.","PeriodicalId":133654,"journal":{"name":"2011 AGILE Conference","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114419970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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