DocumentCode
2579940
Title
Agile Supports Improved Culture and Quality for Healthwise
Author
Long, Ken ; Starr, David
Author_Institution
Healthwise, Boise, ID
fYear
2008
fDate
4-8 Aug. 2008
Firstpage
160
Lastpage
165
Abstract
Five years ago, Healthwise began transitioning into an agile and lean organization. In 2007, four years after introduction to Agile, Healthwise was identified by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 15 small employers in the United States [Spors, K., 2007]. Healthwise uses scrum and lean principles to manage multi-disciplinary product development teams. Teams create medical content in XML, produce interactive media in multiple formats,and develop software. This report describes Healthwisepsilas learning experience for agile adoption across multi-disciplinary teams, the measurable results, and how Agile supports the Healthwise culture.
Keywords
XML; learning (artificial intelligence); medical computing; product development; software engineering; Healthwise; XML; agile adoption; agile supports; agile-lean organization; interactive media; multidisciplinary product development teams; multidisciplinary teams; Consumer electronics; Crisis management; Diseases; Job shop scheduling; Licenses; Manufacturing; Online Communities/Technical Collaboration; Product development; Software testing; XML; Agile; Healthwise; Scrum;
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.2008.61
Filename
4599469
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