Portaging Around the Waterfall: Building an API with Scrum
Session Track:
Business and Strategy
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Speaker(s):
Not all projects in the public sector have to follow the traditional waterfall lifecycle. When NIAID asked Squishymedia to help add an API to the 3DPrint.nih.gov site it seemed like an ideal project for an agile scrum methodology, so we dove right in and tried it. Did the scrum team successfully portage the project canoe around the waterfall?
In this session we'll discuss:
- A brief description of scrum and the project.
- Why we thought scrum was the right tool for this project.
- How we adapted scrum to fit the project.
- Scrum, estimating, and budgeting.
- What worked, and what didn't.
- What agencies and contractors can do to facilitate a successful agile project.
- What we thought would happen ... and what really happened.