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Myth: Agile Doesnt Work for Client-Based Projects & Agile Doesnt Work for Fixed-Price Projects & Agile Doesnt Work Well When Integrating a Third-Party Product
Truth: I coached an agile team at a prominent consulting company through a project with a client who was a well-known record label. They built a new, fully rebranded, eCommerce website using open source CMS and Search engine, and a third party eCommerce provider. The site included product bundling, integrated music player, and social networking integration. It was implemented using Scrum/XP with a single team of about 12 people over 5 months. The result was an award-nominated site that improved conversion rates dramatically, ultimately profitable for and considered a strong success for both the agency and the client. Myth: Agile Doesnt Work for Manufacturing Vehicles Truth: Wikispeed developed a 4-passenger, 100 mpg, street-legal road car in 3 months using modular, off-the-shelf, carbon-fiber body construction, with no capital investment, and no paid employees. Agile processes were utilized with a single international team. The project went beyond the prototype phase and cars are available online (Rudd). What else ya got?1 Works Cited Babuscio, J. (2009). How the FBI learned to catch bad guys one iteration at a time. Proceedings of the Agile 2009 Conference, 96-100. Fruhling, A., McDonald, P., & Dunbar, C. (2008). A case study: Introducing extreme programming in a U.S. government system development project. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 464-473. Rasmussen, R., Hughes, T., Jenks, J., & Skach, J. (2009). Adopting Agile in an FDA Regulated Environment. Proceedings of the Agile 2009 Conference, 151-155. Rudd, C. (n.d.). Retrieved 1 7, 2012, from Solutions IQ: http://www.solutionsiq.com/the-agile-ceo/ bid/51480/Agile-Innovation-or-How-to-Design-and-Build-a-100-MPG-Road-Car-in-3-Months Striebeck, M. (2006). Ssh: We are adding a process. Proceedings of the Agile 2006 Conference, 193201. The Agilista PM. (n.d.). Casestudy_British_Telecom. Retrieved 1 5, 2012, from The Agilista PM: http:// www.agilistapm.com/casestudy-british-telecom/ Watts, G., & Leaton, R. (n.d.). Scrum at BT.pdf. Retrieved 1 16, 2012, from Scaling Software Agility: http://scalingsoftwareagility.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/scrumbt-v14.pdf
Note: Leads for some of these case studies came from David Ricos presentation on Lean & Agile Project Management for Large Programs & Projects
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