Best Practices in Scrum Project Management and XP Agile Software Development(1).pdf

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Best Practices in Scrum Project Management and XP Agile Software Development

Executive Summary

This white paper explains how Primavera Systems, a vendor of project portfolio
management solutions, turned around its anization in 2003. In
terms of value to pany, the anization went from having low
confidence in its ability to deliver and repeated failure to meet expectations, to being
cheered for a release that was the hit of their user conference, with good quality and
twice the expected functionality. Bonuses were ing for this release. Magic?
No, just leadership, hard work, and using a process that turned the leadership and
hard work into results. These are the Agile processes

Primavera, a 21 year-old pany, sells project portfolio management
solutions to help firms manage all their projects, programs, and resources.
Primavera was thriving, and its growth was leading to plex client
needs; this put a strain on its ability to release a product that pleased its entire
customer base. Throughout 2002, the anization worked overtime to
develop release . As with other projects in the past, the last three months were
particularly bad; the developers sacrificed weekends and home life to get the release
out with all of the new requirements. The result – a release seen by management as
plete and three weeks late, and an exhaus