Scrum, XP, Management and the Ethics of Agile Software Development

Emergent Strategies

July 2nd, 2007

I have managed Oxygen’s Software Development Team for five years.

Spiral JettyEach year, our aspirations grow to encompass widening arcs of project, team, and company.

It all seems planned but it’s a pattern of intended and emergent strategies. Agility embraced from the bottom up with the support of our CTO, Steve Morgan.

Beautiful.

Year Focus Theme
2003 Projects Build mission critical software.
2004 Team Adopt Scrum and XP. Become a real team.
2005 Advocate by doing. Remove obstacles. Perform.
2006 Company Earn trust with the CEO. Contribute to innovation.
2007 Earn trust with the COO. Contribute to revenue.
2008 Consumers Software as profit center!?

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