Agile Development in the old economy

As part of the delivery an automated hub for a postal operator, the Solystic company has to build a complex and feature rich Information System that supports a highly automated process with multiple intricate subprocesses and exceptions. The effort has several challenges: • It is business critical for the customer, and the output of the project will give the customer a leading position; • It is the first time Solystic is managing a complete system project, although its mother company Northrop Grumman had previous experience of this business; • The program is one of the first business of the Solystic company in the international field; • It is a fixed price, fixed time contract with a short time frame. To face all these challenges, the software development group in charge of the Information System has adopted a number of agile practices and techniques to manage the project. The major project settings are adapted from Alistair Cockburn’s Crystal set of methodologies, SCRUM and...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: AGILEDC
• Authors: Géry Derbier
• Keywords: AGILEDC 2003, Information System, Multiple Intricate Subprocesses, Software Engineering, Solystic Company