Podcast: Agile Practices - An Introduction

By Adena Schutzberg , Directions Magazine
January 17, 2008

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Did you ever wonder what happens to bring your GIS software to market? For many years a process referred to as the "waterfall method" was used. In the last 10 or so years a new method came on the scene, one referred to as agile practices. Today, with insights from agile proponents like my guests Chris Spagnuolo and Dave Bouwman, GIS development organizations, including ESRI, are looking to this new way of managing and developing software. The podcast was recorded Jan 4, 2007.

Show Notes
Companies and Agile

ESRI’s New Director of Product Management to Expand Enterprise GIS Strategies (press release)
Data Transfer Solutions (company website)

Chris and Dave's Blogs

Chris Spagnuolo's GeoScrum!
Dave Bouwman's Zen GIS Development

Scrum/Agile Resources

Suggested Agile Reading

Organizational Patterns of Agile Software Development by James Coplien
Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber (Microsoft Press)
The Enterprise and Scrum by Ken Schwaber (Microsoft Press)
Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn (Amazon)
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary & Tom Poppendieck (Google Books with sample text)

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Agile versus Spiral Model (#1) by Michael Sweet, The University of Montana
Date: January 17, 2008 20:45 PM

My software development background (in the old days) was based on Barry Boehm 1988 Sprial Model for software development. The Spiral Model was offered as a rapid software development method, an alternative to the Waterfall Model, and a means to reduce risk. The Scrum within Scrum analogy sounds a lot like Spirals within Spirals. I wonder if the authors had any thoughts as to how Agile, at is core, differs from Boehm's Sprial Model concepts?

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