Agile Executive – Final, Six Part BMC Executive Interview Now On Line

Israel Gat (VP, BMC Software) has just completed a six part interview series on the BMC agile transformation experience at the Agile Thinkers blog that I’ve been highlighting in some recent posts. This series is an open, honest and direct perspective from an experienced senior executive faced with all the challenges of implementing agility at [...]

More on the Virtues of the Agile Executive

Israel Gat continues his “view from the executive suite” discussion of BMC’s successful transformation at the Agile Thinkers blog, noting that agile has now reached approximately 1,000 practitioners at BMC. That puts it in the class of one of the three or four largest transformations that I am personally aware of, truly enterprise scale. [...]

Update on British Telecom Agile Adoption

I met Roger Leaton (British Telecom employee and Agile Advocate) and Geoff Watts (consultant, InspectandAdapt.com) at an in-house agile community gathering last week. They gave a peer presentation of the status of the agile rollout that they have been involved with at British Telecom. (A similar presentation was provided last year at Agile 2007). Roger [...]

Two New Enterprise Case Studies

I’m always on the lookout for documented case studies of agility at enterprise scale which highlight impediments, lessons learned, anecdotal benefits, and wherever possible, hard metrics of improvement in productivity, quality or morale. I’ve (b)logged two such case studies, the transformations at BMC Software and Salesforce.com in this blog under the category “Case Studies”.
Since then, [...]

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 [...]

Newly Released Quantitative Data on Enterprise Agility Benefits at BMC Software

It’s always nice to see quantitative benefits in our hard to measure, intangible field of endeavor. For those of you who have read the book, you’ve probably seen the BMC Software case study (visit http://www.rallydev.com/company/customers/case_studies/bmc_software/ to see the full case study). This case study highlights a true, enterprise-scale, agile transformation, complete with the challenges [...]