Title :
Rolling Out Agile in a Large Enterprise
Author :
Benefield, Gabrielle
Abstract :
Yahoo! is a large enterprise with a $32 billion market cap and has one of the largest Agile implementations in the world. The adoption of Scrum and Agile practices has been steadily growing over the past two years, and now encompasses more than 150 Yahoo! teams in the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The projects range from new product development for properties such as Yahoo! Autos to heavy-duty infrastructure work on Yahoo! Mail, which serves 250 million users each month around the globe.
Keywords :
DP industry; Internet; software development management; Yahoo!; agile practices; large enterprise; scrum practices; Collaboration; Companies; Europe; Management training; Postal services; Product development; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 41st Annual
Conference_Location :
Waikoloa, HI
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2008.382
