Organizational patterns of agile software development by James O. Coplien, Neil B. Harrison

Organizational patterns of agile software development James O. Coplien, Neil B. Harrison ebook
ISBN: 0131467409, 9780131467408
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Format: pdf
Page: 488

My colleague Antti Tevanlinna developed a description for a pattern that his team has been implementing for some time. The best teams are small learning organizations. Jim Highsmith, Agile Project Management. Tom Demarco, Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams. It's important to develop plans to deal with these issues as soon as possible as they quickly become barriers to throughput. Tool support can become a huge constraint. The pattern is called "Teams within a team" and deals with scaling up agile projects. (I should point out that we do realize sales organizations and development organizations are vastly different, and certain Agile practices can't be applied to a sales cycle. And of course the information from the agile team is much more volatile. These are the behavioral patterns of the best teams. (3) The Governance Process Breaks Our waterfall projects are providing status reports based on task completion, spend and utilisation; our agile projects are providing data based on working software, risk and value realisation. These are distilled and extracted from Agile software development. Coplien, Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development.