Succeeding with Agile

Four Attributes of the Ideal Pilot Project

Selecting the right project as a pilot can be challenging. Jeff Honious, vice president in charge of innovation at Reed Elsevier, led his company’s transition to Scrum. He and colleague Jonathan Clark wrote of their struggle to select the right pilot.

Finding the right project was the most critical and challenging task. We needed a meaty project that people would not dismiss as being a special case, yet we did not want a project to fill every possible challenge—too much was riding on its success. (2004)

Note

I’m not forgetting the importance of the people involved to the success of a pilot. The topic is discussed in its own section, “Selecting a Pilot Team,” later in this chapter.

Not every project ...