InfoQ Homepage Presentations Reflecting Forward – A Guided Agile Transition
Reflecting Forward – A Guided Agile Transition
Summary
This half hour presentation looks at a Fortune 500 company's effort to achieve faster time to market by transitioning from RUP to Agile. At Agile2006 Hussman & Stenstad revealed the gradual process from readiness assessment and chartering through education and practice to the creation of an adaptive culture with a "living plan", sharing lessons learned along the way.
Bio
David Hussman leads DevJam www.devjam.biz, an international collaboration of Agile practitioners. He has coached agile teams all over the world and created software for domains from digital biometrics to education. Tor Stenstad www.torstenstad.com is executive information officer for the Decisioning Support Engine team at Minneapolis-based GMAC-RFC (Residential Finance Group).
About the conference
The Agile Alliance organizes an annual international Agile conference, which brings together the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of Agile software development.