MyBoeingFleet and Agile Software Development
MyBoeingFleet.com is one of the leading portals operated by Boeing, and an industry leading e-commerce site in both data volume and revenue. Considering the risk-averse environment of Aerospace, how does a group change process to something more Lean and Agile, and still attain CMMI level 3? This presentation will track the timeline of my effort, with many collaborators, in bringing in Agile to MyBoeingFleet and the Boeing enterprise. There are special challenges not typically encountered at other corporations that I ran into, and speak about how I overcame those things (or didn’t). The presentation concludes with a summary of the experience as it stands today — what does our Agile look like and how I got just-in-time assistance from the most unlikely of places: our own process organization.
Some questions that I will address include:
What are the things that work well at a Boeing scale?
Dealing with a heavily matrixed, highly distributed organizations
How do you deal with waterfall or difficult processes such as gated reviews, Earned Value, and legal and contractual issues?
What tools and processes made the transition easier?
What is still left to be done? Open questions?
My presentation, as it stands today, has the following process: First I’ll go into the Problem statement & background. I’ll show where I am in the org, some demographics on Boeing, and then right to the meat. Then I migrate into the The Adoption Process – timelines, successes, and difficulties , both at my level and at the Enterprise, and how I stretched to cover both. I sum up some recommendations for those who need to start on their own trek, or who have been discouraged by their challenges.
Note this is only 30 minutes. The reference above is not accurate (its not an hour and a half!)