Can an organization using Visual Studio Team System be Agile? (Optimize the Whole)
Posted May 12th, 2008 by Rod ClaarThis is the first of several posts about how a team can be Agile while using Visual Studio Team System to manage their project and process.
You have probably heard the quip that the last simple project was done in 1960. The complexity and breadth of software projects today is truly astounding. The size of teams working on a project seems to be getting larger. To deal with this complexity, teams must have higher bandwidth communication and various Agile methodologies like Scrum, XP, BDD, FDD, AUP, and Clear Case achieve this by emphasizing smaller local team sizes.
However, if only one small Agile team were to take on something the size of a modern DBMS, accounting system, large scale e-commerce site, or a medical records management system, they would not be able to deliver product of sufficient value for years. To achieve release goals, there have to be dozens or hundreds of small teams working on the project to deliver and maintain the product. And coordinating so many teams is, itself, a complex problem.
Does this sound like a Catch-22?
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