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John Deere’s ISG Gets Results
Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dean Leffingwell in Case Studies, UncategorizedOver the last few months, I’ve been chronicling the Lean|Agile transformation at John Deere’s Intelligent Systems Group. For those of you contemplating, or in the midst of such a large scale transformation, there is some useful information in these...
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Computerworld Article: John Deere Plows in to Agile
Posted on January 26, 2012 by Dean Leffingwell in Case StudiesWith Deere's permission, we've chronicled Deere's Intelligent Systems Group agile-at-scale, and all-in-really-fast transformation on this blog. There's another post or two in process. In the meantime, this Computerworld article adds to the story. Pretty cool, really. Great to...
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John Deere ISG Case Study Post #3: All Aboard the GreenStar™ Release Train
Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Case StudiesBackground: In prior posts, we introduced the almost-real-time case study describing a large-scale agile transformation at John Deere’s ISG. In the last post, we described some of the work that was required to get Deere to...
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John Deere ISG Case Study: Reaching the Tipping Point
Posted on August 10, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Case Studies, Enterprise Rollout, UncategorizedIn an earlier post, we introduced the Agile transformation occurring at John Deere’s Intelligent Systems Group. In this post, we’ll describe some of the challenges and activities we encountered to get the development and management teams to...
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Agile Meets Big Iron: Agile Transformation at John Deere ISG
Posted on July 12, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Case Studies, Enterprise RolloutJohn Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) has recently announced that they are in the midst of a large-scale agile transformation that affects hundreds of software practitioners worldwide. This is a particularly interesting agile transformation for a number...
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Agile in Regulated Environment: Abbott Labs Experience Report
Posted on November 3, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile and FDA, Case Studies, High Assurance and Regulated EnvironmentsIn earlier posts in this series on Agile Development as Applied in High Assurance and Regulated Environments, I mentioned that applying agile development in the context of highly regulated environments is not a new thought, and at least some others...
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Agile Executive – Final, Six Part BMC Executive Interview Now On Line
Posted on July 9, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Case Studies, Enterprise RolloutIsrael Gat (VP, BMC Software) has just completed a six part interview series on the BMC agile transformation experience at the Agile Thinkers blog that I've been highlighting in some recent posts. This series is an open,...
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More on the Virtues of the Agile Executive
Posted on July 4, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Case Studies, Enterprise RolloutIsrael Gat continues his "view from the executive suite" discussion of BMC's successful transformation at the Agile Thinkers blog, noting that agile has now reached approximately 1,000 practitioners at BMC. That puts it in the class of one...
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Update on British Telecom Agile Adoption
Posted on June 3, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Case Studies, Enterprise RolloutI met Roger Leaton (British Telecom employee and Agile Advocate) and Geoff Watts (consultant, InspectandAdapt.com) at an in-house agile community gathering last week. They gave a peer presentation of the status of the agile rollout that they have been...
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Two New Enterprise Case Studies
Posted on January 29, 2008 by Dean Leffingwell in Case StudiesI'm always on the lookout for documented case studies of agility at enterprise scale which highlight impediments, lessons learned, anecdotal benefits, and wherever possible, hard metrics of improvement in productivity, quality or morale. I've (b)logged two such case studies, the...
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