Exploring the Agile Frontier

by Jens Coldewey

We can all picture the typical agile project: a small collocated team working on a medium-critical, user-centric system, probably written in some object-oriented language or other. But what about those other kinds of projects? Are agile methods off limits if your project is being developed by a globally distributed team? If your system is life-critical? If you find yourself in a process-oriented or highly regulated organization?

Join us as we discuss projects that venture beyond agile's terra cognita. Learn how the short iterations of agile projects are even more important in a global environment (as are feature-driven development and daily synchronizations). Hear how an upstart agile team in one of the US's largest companies learned to peacefully coexist with its waterfall-following brethren. Discover how globally distributed projects can succeed by embracing agile values rather than blindly following practices used by collocated teams. So get ready to saddle up as we explore the agile frontier.