Title :
Baby Steps: Agile Transformation at BabyCenter.com
Author :
Nottonson, Keith ; DeLong, Ken
Author_Institution :
State Univ. of New York at Geneseo Coll., Geneseo, NY
Abstract :
The authors describe BabyCenter.com´s four-year journey from chaos to a relatively mature agile organization. From engineering teams tasked with more projects than developers, delivery dates set long before projects were scoped or staffed, and multitudinous business stakeholders deluging team members with new project requests, each more urgent than the previous, the team evolved into scrum sprints with predictable, steady paces and a comprehensive planning process wrapping the sprints.
Keywords :
Web sites; social sciences computing; BabyCenter.com; agile organization; comprehensive planning process; multitudinous business stakeholders; project requests; Companies; Cultural differences; Engineering management; Fires; Internet; Java; Maintenance engineering; Pediatrics; Production; Yarn; Web site development; agile methods; e-commerce; enterprise software; scrum; software engineering;
Journal_Title :
IT Professional
DOI :
10.1109/MITP.2008.95
