How Yahoo uses Scrum and Agile ?
February 10, 2008 – 7:54 pmGabrielle Benefield, Yahoo’s senior director of methods and practices is being interviewed on how Yahoo has been using Scrum and Agile methods internally for the past 3 years. Lessons From a Yahoo Scrum Rollout
[...] one of the key points of why this works is that we are dealing with people. We tend to boil the software development process down to the tools we are using, complicated tracking methods, check lists and task allocation — saying, “You work on this; you work on that.” Things that are very demotivating. But people will actually self-organize. [...] So instead of having the traditional project manager say, “Here’s your task, do this — how long is it going to take?” We say, “You work out the tasks,” and people volunteer for them, and they help each other.
The whole story is available in this paper Rolling out Agile in a Large Enterprise by Gabrielle Benefield from the Proceedings of the 41st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences - 2008
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