{"id":976,"date":"2007-09-11T18:43:24","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/09\/11\/enterprise-agile-from-the-vps-view\/"},"modified":"2007-09-11T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T00:43:24","slug":"enterprise-agile-from-the-vps-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/09\/11\/enterprise-agile-from-the-vps-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Enterprise Agile from the VP&#039;s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you know, Agile Software development is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/topic\/agile\/\">my favorite topics<\/a> to talk with people about. The most recent discussion I&#8217;ve recorded was with the Vice President of the group I used to work in at BMC, Israel Gat.<\/p>\n<p>I split our talk into two parts, and the first is on his experience introducing and then growing Agile as the development methodologies for the product lines under him.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it already, you might also be interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtech.net\/home\/3835\/enterprise-agile-with-chip-holden\">the discussion I had with Chip Holden<\/a> who&#8217;s worked on a couple of the product teams mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the summary I wrote up for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtech.net\/home\/4083\/enterprise-agile-software-development-with-israel-gat\">the original post on podtech.net<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nAt the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmc.com\/\">BMC Software<\/a>, Inc. Austin campus (one of my former employers), I talk with Israel Gat about introducing and then benefiting from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agilejournal.com\/articles\/case-study\/case-study:-how-bmc-is-scaling-agile-development.html\">Agile Software development at BMC<\/a>. The projects under Israel are each &#8220;enterprise software&#8221; and peopled with large teams. Thus, his experience and the lessons learned from introducing Agile on such a large scale are interesting to hear. To sum up, he says &#8220;the most important thing is staying out of the way,&#8221; followed by internal and external evangelism. Once the teams are sold on the idea, they just need the corporate leeway to mold Agile development to their work.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Israel talks with me about a few new ideas BMC has for benefiting from Agile: introducing more customization for customers (while incorporating them back into the main release) and adapting the rapid releases to the longer enterprise sales cycles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, the video:<\/p>\n<p class=\"video embed\">\n<p>Thanks again to Israel!<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclaimer:<\/b> BMC is a client.<\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/bmc\" rel=\"tag\">bmc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/israelgat\" rel=\"tag\">israelgat<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/enterprise\" rel=\"tag\">enterprise<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/scrum\" rel=\"tag\">scrum<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/cutter\" rel=\"tag\">cutter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talk with Israel Gat, VP at BMC about using Agile Software Development in his group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-enterprise-software","category-redmonktv","category-systems-management"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}