New Case Study: Enterprise Agility at Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com recently completed an agile transformation involving a two-hundred person team in a three month window. Wow, that’s the big bang approach to be certain. My friend Pete Behrens was involved in this work, so you know it’s good work and you can can find the case study at:
http://trailridgeconsulting.com/files/salesforce_agile_adoption_2007.pdf
As is often the case, the “lessons [...]

New Blog from Paul Beavers at BMC

Paul Beavers is a Senior Director of Engineering at BMC Software, and since he was one of the lead executives in their agile transformation, we’ve been encouraging to him to share his experiences. He just started his new blog at http://every2weeks.wordpress.com/. Check it out and get a glimpse of the passion that drives so many [...]

What is Enterprise Agility?

In my ongoing discussions with companies contemplating agile transformation, I make the point that “Enterprise Software Agility” is indeed different than basic agility as taught and practiced at the team level (different practices, different stakeholders, different impediments, different scope – See Parts II and III of the book). However, for those in the process [...]