Letters from the edge of an agile transition
Christopher P. O'Connor · 2010
Starting as a new coach of a team with almost no agile experience and an enormous release pending was quite daunting. Change was slow and at first it seemed like we would not succeed in converting the team and delivering the product. It took patience, support at many different levels of the organization, and hard work from many different people to put this team on the path to becoming a functional and productive agile team. Now the team is growing as a successful and productive agile team. I am proud to have been a part of going from mostly offshore waterfall development to a local agile development team; from one release in about a year and a half to an average of one release per week; from over a hundred open issues to dozens and falling.