Woodward, E. V., R. Bowers, V. Thio, K. Johnson, M. Srihari, and C. J. Bracht. Forthcoming. Agile methods for software practice transformation. IBM Journal of Research and Development 54 (2). Members of IBM’s Quality Software Engineering organization are using an approach very similar to the one described in this chapter to spread agile throughout IBM. This excellent paper describes how they function as an Enterprise Transition Community, ways in which they encourage improvement communities to form, and how they use the Scrum framework to drive improvements in how they use Scrum.
