AGILE PROJECT DEVELOPMENT AT INTEL: A SCRUM ODYSSEY
Pat Elwer, Katie Playfair, Michael M. James · 2010
In the microprocessor industry, the product development engineering (PDE) group exists to provide the test collateral to support cost-effective device screening and classification. Squeezed between the actual design teams and factory manufacturing teams, PDE is often put under tremendous pressure without ultimate control of team level deadline, scope, requirements, or deliverables. To better coordinate the efforts of the sub-teams within PDE, seven teams comprising approximately 50 people volunteered to pilot a more integrated approach to product development. To organize this integration, the authors decided that Scrum was the best project management framework to employ along with agile engineering best practices. This paper describes the journey taken by the organization, its lessons learned, and the results of its investment in Scrum.