Executive Summary

Scaling Agile Technical Practices: Implementing Continuous Integration to Enable Lean (Executive Summary)

Posted June 22, 2011 | Technology |

Agile software development methodologies such as Scrum and XP have grown in popularity over the past 10 years. This growth has coincided with the injection of lean terminology and practices into the software development lexicon. Of course, software development organizations are not drawn to concepts like lean and agile for their own sake. Other underlying goals or deficiencies cause the organization to want to change. Primarily the motivation is the culmination of myriad issues that lead to the inability to deliver software on time or, more important, in a predictable manner.

About The Author
Jonathon Golden
Jonathon Golden has over 20 years’ experience in software development and architecture, project management, mentoring, and consulting. As an agile coach and agile team leader, Mr. Golden has instructed and guided technical, project, and product management staff on successfully applying agile engineering (XP) and project management (Scrum) practices. He has worked with a variety of established companies, such as Microsoft, Cingular Wireless,… Read More
Don’t have a login? Make one! It’s free and gives you access to all Cutter research.