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I’m live here at the LA Agile Success Tour with the success stories of our panelists. In my next post, I’ll cover the Q&A.
Israel Gat – Cutter Consortium member on Agile, former VP from BMC, IBM, Microsoft and EMC
- Software is becoming pervasive in our lives. The key will be how we align the functionality of that software with what the customers actually need, not our guesses about what we think they might need.
- A key component of this is agility in the process between developing software and getting that value into our customer’s hands. He used Flickr and IMVU as examples of the power of using constant deployment as a method to effortlessly deliver software, and ultimately value, to customers.
Chris Babcock – VP of Technology at Real Capital Markets
- Introduced to Agile in 2000 as a reaction to his “death march” experience at another company, where his team worked 100-hour weeks. He moved into a development management role and took on the goal of delivering projects on schedule, in a way that was healthy for the team. One of his development leads discovered the XP methodology and they never looked back.
- Tracking project metrics was an important part of his role at one company. He shows empirical evidence of the benefits of Agile. With waterfall, time = 31 weeks, 16 critical defects and 153 stories. With Agile, time = 19 weeks, 0 critical defects and 234 story points. He was most proud of 0 critical defects into the market.
- Benefits from Agile – faster development, more manageable codebase, fewer defects. Industry average is 15 to 50 bugs per 1,000 lines of code. With each release, through refactoring and Agile development, they are decreasing the size of their code base. Yes, that’s right, more features, with higher quality, with 100,000 fewer lines of code.
Laureen Knudsen – Sr. Dir. of Program Management at Qualcomm
