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Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google

Posted by Jeff Sutherland on Jul 03, 2008 06:32 AM

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Agile
Topics
Adopting Agile
Tags
Scrum,
Qcon London 2007,
QCon
Summary
A retrospective on Google's first Scrum implementation. Jeff Sutherland visited Google to do an analysis of the first Google implementation of Scrum on one of their largest distributed projects. Their strategy for inserting Scrum step by step into the Google engineering teams showed great insight and provides helpful lessons learned for all Agile teams.

Bio
Well known as the Co-Creator of the Scrum Agile Development Process which influenced the design of the other leading Agile process in the U.S., i.e. eXtreme Programming (XP). Scrum is a team organization process that brings focus, clarity, and enthusiasm to any project team in any domain.

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my feedback by Elham Moazzen Posted Jul 7, 2008 9:07 AM
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    Jul 7, 2008 9:07 AM by Elham Moazzen

    I enjoyed it very much, thank you.

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