Agile Process

Proposed Agile Process

This is the proposed agile development process for the CM project:

  • Working Days - CM WG team members set their schedules to work on CM stuff the same days of the week as other team members
    • >60% FTE on CM: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
    • <60% FTE on CM: Tuesday and Wednesday
  • "10 at 10" - have 10 minute IM conferences on working days at 10amPDT/1pmEDT:
    • What you have accomplished since the last meeting
    • What you are working on
    • Any questions you may have (Questions are answered one-on-one only after the 10 at 10 meeting is over.)
  • Weekly Meetings - use weekly meetings for:
    • start each iteration cycle with a UI design walk-through and then delineate the tasks and time estimates onto "Story Cards"
    • for checking in on progress and rearranging story cards

This is a process in progress. Agile development is new to most of us, so we will probably change things depending on how they work.

Some of this process is borrowed from Menlo Innovations and adapted for our virtual world. For some background on this proposal and their practices, here are some excellent papers: http://www.menloinstitute.com/freestuff/whitepapers/Project%20Management.pdf
This is one paper among many: http://www.menloinstitute.com/freestuff/whitepapers/index.htm