A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware
by Gary Gruver, Mike Young, Pat Fulghum
Preface
Agile is everywhere. Especially in software development circles, you can’t turn around without hearing the term. Agile books. Agile conferences. Agile forums. Dig a bit deeper and all the agile verbiage starts to come out: Scrum, XP, burndown charts. There’s even new large-scale agile terms and practices like “Scrum of Scrums” to deal with the complexities of making agile work beyond the typical seven to ten person team. Interesting that something that in name is so “quick to respond” has become quite steeped in theory and process.
This is a story. A story of an experiment about taking agile principles and applying them on a large scale for the re-architecture of a code base and the ongoing innovation and delivery of a multimillion dollar ...
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