Agility at Scale - Using Team Concert in a Globally Distributed Team
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Presentation |
Intermediate
Methodology and Business
Room:
Lab 1
Timeslot:
17.09.08 09:00
Speaker: Erich Gamma
Abstract
The Jazz technology platform and IBM Rational Team Concert are developed by
a team spread over eight sites and multiple time zones. The development is
done using Agile practices based on the "Eclipse Way." For over a year our
team has been using IBM Rational Team Concert to develop the product
itself. This talk sheds light into how this is done and discusses best
practices for using scaling up agility in a globally distributed team.
Outline
- Quick introduction to Jazz and Rational Team Concert
- Our practices - the eclipse wayMe
- Component based development
- Our organization and roles
- The artifacts we track
- Isolating work not people
- Planning, release and iteration planning, tracking cross team dependencies
- Continuous integration - getting green builds
- The endgame
- Evolving the process
- Experiences & Lessons Learnt
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Erich GammaErich Gamma is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Rational Software's Zurich lab. He is the technical lead of the Jazz project and Rational Team Concert. He was the original lead of the Eclipse Java development environment and was on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project. Erich is also a member of the Gang of Four, which is known for its classical book, Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Erich has collaborated with Kent Beck on developing JUnit, the de facto standard testing tool for Java software, and on writing the book contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-ins.