Two Projects

A Tale of Two Projects

A Tale of Two Projects

I had a unique opportunity to experience and analyze the adoption of agile practices on two projects at a major car rental company which, although sharing many similarities including staff, professed commitment to agile process, architecture, and programming environment, experienced two drastically different outcomes. The first became bogged down and eventually went to production late, over-bud...

A Tale of Two Projects

The structure of an organization, the processes, and technologies used have a significant effect on software developments. The hypotheses explored here are that 1) an organization is not independent of process, and 2) process is not independent of technology. The two projects described remarkably display the same strong trends even though they were done in very different parts of the business, ...

The Tale of Two Projects

To gain an understanding of these problems, we investigated how two experimental development projects, in very different environments and organizations within the same company, dramatically improved time to market, and slightly improved cost and quality. Our analysis leads us to conclude that these experimental projects were succsessful because they recognized that organizational structure, pro...

Two Evolution Indicators for FOSS Projects

In this paper we introduce two project evolution indicators. One is showing an increase of downloads of the project and therefore a growing interest of users in the results of the project. The second indicator is predicting the future evolution of the project with the submission of new revisions to the concurrent versioning system. Both indicators can provide evidence of the sustainability of a...