Comments on: Is Agile a good idea for product development? http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/ Unfortunate day dreamer Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: xiaoming http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-6 xiaoming Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:40:39 +0000 http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-6 Nirav, you are absolutely right! Practices like stand up, pair are also used in many industries. It is just something kinda new to IT industry. I remember that when I work in one of the biggest retail chain in the UK, the company encourage people to have stand up rather than formal meeting. Most of the managers in the company always assign a mission to two people (a pair) rather than a single staff. From project management point of view, XP, Scrum or lean just extended project management and operation management theory. And creatively use them in IT industry. Nothing can be perfect, sometimes, we need find the balance of implementing these best practices. Nirav, you are absolutely right! Practices like stand up, pair are also used in many industries. It is just something kinda new to IT industry. I remember that when I work in one of the biggest retail chain in the UK, the company encourage people to have stand up rather than formal meeting. Most of the managers in the company always assign a mission to two people (a pair) rather than a single staff. From project management point of view, XP, Scrum or lean just extended project management and operation management theory. And creatively use them in IT industry. Nothing can be perfect, sometimes, we need find the balance of implementing these best practices.

]]> By: Nirav Thaker http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-5 Nirav Thaker Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:49:04 +0000 http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-5 I agree with you Xiaoming, I've worked in product development environment, we successfully implemented several XP practices (stand-ups, CI, Pairing and TDD etc.) . I'm not sure if XP-only development method will make sense in this model but some practices can be successful arbitrary of your development approach. I agree with you Xiaoming,

I’ve worked in product development environment, we successfully implemented several XP practices (stand-ups, CI, Pairing and TDD etc.) . I’m not sure if XP-only development method will make sense in this model but some practices can be successful arbitrary of your development approach.

]]> By: xiaoming http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-3 xiaoming Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:26:09 +0000 http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-3 Thanks Jason for the comment. Clearly SAP is an ERP vendor who care more about system integration than pure ground development. It is the similar case for Oracle Fusion which is a brilliant solution for large enterprise. For SME those solutions would be too heavy or not specific. So still implementing Agile in a product development need more thoughts and good ideas. Thanks Jason for the comment. Clearly SAP is an ERP vendor who care more about system integration than pure ground development. It is the similar case for Oracle Fusion which is a brilliant solution for large enterprise. For SME those solutions would be too heavy or not specific. So still implementing Agile in a product development need more thoughts and good ideas.

]]> By: Jason Yan http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-2 Jason Yan Sat, 29 Sep 2007 09:10:05 +0000 http://ossme.com/2007/09/28/is-agile-a-good-idea-for-product-development/#comment-2 I know little about Agile.However: To get over the gap between the differences between product development and project development; To deal with the problem that product development demands much surveys to know as exactly as possible what the widely requirements of customers are, and in the mean while project development demands too much resources,which always bothers our ambitious plans to enlarge our market share fast; To cope with that ,SAP developed Net Weaver,as well as Fusion developed by Oracle,a mediat platform facilitating the further development based on specific requirements of clients. For more information about Ner Weaver : http://hao123ba.com/magazine/html/236/236088.htm I know little about Agile.However:

To get over the gap between the differences between product development and project development; To deal with the problem that product development demands much surveys to know as exactly as possible what the widely requirements of customers are, and in the mean while project development demands too much resources,which always bothers our ambitious plans to enlarge our market share fast;

To cope with that ,SAP developed Net Weaver,as well as Fusion developed by Oracle,a mediat platform facilitating the further development based on specific requirements of clients.

For more information about Ner Weaver :
http://hao123ba.com/magazine/html/236/236088.htm

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