A Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development Quotes

“If you are going to use automated testing and Continuous Integration (CI) to dramatically improve your productivity, you need to treat your testing investments as being at least as important, or even more important, than your development investments, which is a big cultural change for most organizations. In”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“after you have chosen an approach, you don’t need to worry about getting the advantages of that design because it will come naturally. Where you need to provide management focus is on addressing the disadvantages of your organizational choice.”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“Always trust that engineers are doing the best they know how or can in the situation. People want to do a good job;”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“Process is only a second-order effect. The unique people, their feelings and qualities, are more influential”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“One of the most important roles for management is ensuring architectural integrity and sustainability when developing code. One”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“It is important to remember that although it is relatively easy to write code, it is very difficult to create a sustainable platform.”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“business challenges started with a predicament of two-year long development cycles for delivering firmware, and of complex embedded software that had been slowly aging over many years and needed to be re-architected. Big-bang integrations were frequent. Before learning about agile, we had some early improvements and got to the point of 8-week development cycles, a daily build or two, and a nightly smoke test.”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware

“Instead of having a lengthy integration and qualification cycle, an agile process makes it part of the ongoing development process. This shift is accomplished through approaches like continuous integration/delivery, sprints with complete requirements, test-driven design, and automated testing. All this is put in place so that when customers think they have enough of the capabilities ready, the code is close to being ready to deploy.”
― Gary Gruver, Practical Approach to Large-Scale Agile Development, A: How HP Transformed LaserJet FutureSmart Firmware