Succeeding with Agile

Selecting a Pilot Project

I was about to start this section with something like, “Scrum pilot projects have become more and more rare over the past four years. The benefits of Scrum have become so recognized that companies are now forgoing pilot projects and jumping right in.” And then I decided that perhaps I should look up the definition of pilot project. Perhaps, like inconceivable to Vizzini in The Princess Bride, it did not mean what I thought it meant. What I found was that there are indeed two slightly different meanings. One is that a pilot project is a test, with the results used to determine if more of whatever is being tested will be done. This is the type of pilot project that most companies now bypass—they know they want to use ...