Can Agile work for off the shelf software?

Most of the examples and use cases for Agile that we see everyday are for web environments where continuous deployment is possible, you are close to your customers and the feedback loop is short.

Not all software is like that. Sometimes you're writing off-the-shelf enterprise applications that are, by necessity, installed only once a year (or less!). Can agile still work? What are the challenges particular to this situation? How can you get to a more ideal situation?

This session is based on our personal experiences of making Agile work at Granta Design. We'll look at the challenges and rewards of Agile when working on an enterprise software product and contrast them with working in a more traditionally Agile SaaS setting.

Transcript

1. Can Agile Work For Off- The-Shelf Software? Ceri Shaw Adrian Banks
2. Introduction picture
3. Engineering Manager @cerishaw! ceri@freeagent.com @adrianbanks! adrian@adrianbanks.co.uk Software Team Lead
7. Definitions
9. Why can’t Granta use SaaS?
10. How Agile should work
12. Problems
13. Releasable Software
14. Release Cycle
15. Customer Collaborations ! Developers ! End Users ! Product Manager ! Management ! Consortium
16. Product Owners
17. Quality
19. Solutions
20. Team Team Team Team Structure Dev. Manager Dev. Manager Team Lead Team Lead Team Lead Team Lead Team Lead
21. Product Owners
22. Releasable Software
24. Customer Collaborations ! Developers ! End Users ! Product Owner ! Management ! Consortium
25. Quality
27. Summary • Fixed teams • Internal releases • Requiring Product Owners • Reducing distance to end users • Focusing on quality
28. Not all smelling of roses
29. Teams
30. Product Owners
31. Technical Debt
32. Sum up
33. Questions ? @cerishaw! ceri@freeagent.com @adrianbanks! adrian@adrianbanks.co.uk