Evolution of the Tools and Practices of a Large Distributed Agile Team

Author

Cannizzo, Fabrizio ; Marcionetti, Gabriela ; Moser, Paul

Author_Institution

BT Group Plc, London

fYear

2008

fDate

4-8 Aug. 2008

Firstpage

513

Lastpage

518

Abstract

Since its formation in 2005, the Web21C SDK team, has been using an agile methodology for the development of the BT Web21C SDK and related services. The team is made of 40 members distributed between the UK and the US. At the core of its agility is a continuously evolving toolbox consisting of tools selected by the team; it supports four core practices adopted to manage the development activities: maximum project status visibility, immediate feedback, ruthless automation and effective communication. This report shows which tools are currently in use, how the toolbox evolved to its current state and how these tools support the aforementioned core practices.

Keywords

Web services; software development management; software tools; team working; Web service; Web21C SDK team; agile methodology; distributed agile team; software tool; Assembly; Automation; Communication effectiveness; Feedback; Portfolios; Programmable control; Project management; Speech synthesis; Technology management; Testing; Agile; Cruise Control; Eclipse; FitNesse; Scrum; ScrumWorks; Selenium; XP; automation; craftsman; distributed team; eXtreme Programming; immediate feedback; project status visibility; tool; toolbox; web21c sdk;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Agile, 2008. AGILE '08. Conference

Conference_Location

Toronto, ON

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3321-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/Agile.2008.32

Filename

4599531