Agile Book Group

Description

This was a project that I proposed to management at Quat/Tech. The development at the time was difficult to categorized and consisted of something similar to waterfall mixed with doing what ever the senior programmers wanted. There where a number of people who didn't like this method and a lot of time was spent debating how to fix it. I suggested to management that we start a group to study Agile principles and suggest methods for improving the development environment. We used the book "Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide".

Challenges

The main challeng was changing enough to have a positive impact on our development process while not changing so much that the senior developers wouldn't get on board.

Results

While we where able to get a wiki up for development notes and had a few scrums, we weren't able to convince enought of the senior developers or managers that this was a good enough idea to spend the time to implement.