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Title: XPQuinary
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XP_at_Quinary Piergiuliano Bossi Free University
of Bolzano - Bozen NAME workshop on Agile
Methodologies in Software Engineering Bolzano -
Bozen, October 17th 2002
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Company profile
- Quinary S.p.A., one of the leading system
integration companies in Italy, provides IT
services to the following industries Fixed and
Mobile Telecommunications, Financial Services,
Media, Energy, Utilities, Business Services, IT
and RD Organizations. - Quinary has developed a multichannel framework
that includes a set of solutions like Content
Management, Commerce, Marketing Applications,
Knowledge Management, Messaging e Wireless
Services. The framework is backed by strategic
partnerships with important suppliers of
e-business technologies. - Structure
- Founded in 1985, being part of Tiscali group
since May 2000. - Organization
- Based on competency centres supported by a
service infrastructure - Offices Milano Roma
- Resources more than 80 professionals
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Our interest in XP and/or AMs the premise
- We got to XP out of an interest in software
development, attracted by a work style which
promises to be - More reliable
- More time money effective
- More flexible
- More suitable for custom development
- Less risky for the Customer
- Especially in a continually evolving business
environment - Complementary to Quinarys traditional system
integration approach
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Our interest in XP and/or AMs the present
- Starting from June 2001
- We have elaborated an optional scope approach
based on XP - Real Customer empowerment
- Able to steer
- We have tuned the process on internal projects
- We have delivered to a customer a medium-sized
project in the Financial domain
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How XP has been introduced the origin
- The team was already practicing XP in a different
company - XP has been introduced there in order to
- Work more effectively
- Deliver business value through software more
rapidly - ? Good, Fast Cheap!
- XP has been bootstrapped with a mentoring help
from XPLabs - But
- Environmental conditions were not holding anymore
at original workplace - XP approach fit into Quinary culture and tradition
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How XP has been introduced the research
- Like nomads in the desert searching for water
- The core of the team has decided to move to
Quinary - Quinary accepted in advance how the team wanted
to implement XP - The team has grown adding new people with a sort
of distillation process
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How XP has been introduced the roots
- At the foundation of the team there are the
following values - Courage
- Humility
- Simplicity
- Feedback
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Respect
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Adopted practices
- The team has implemented the full set of well
known practices - Planning game, Pair programming, Open workspace,
... - Plus some local adaptations and/or enhancements
- Tracking planning based on 30 story points
- Daily project journal
- Project and Iteration retrospective
- Continuous learning
- Iteration probe
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Adopted practices work in progress
- Practices are not frozen, rather they are
continuously modified as time goes by - In order to be more effective
- Gaining continuous feedback from running projects
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Success
- The team has succesfully delivered to a customer
a medium-sized project - Portfolio watching application for personal
bankers - Stocks watchlist, index watchlist, portfolio,
search, technical charts, news - Legacy data about portfolio composition
integrated with near time data about market
trends - Update of the watchlist and portfolio revaluation
every 15 seconds - Although initial great uncertainty the project
started anyway - Major steering after 4 months
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Success the metrics
- Tracking
- Source code
- Process
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Impact on business
- Quinary has been able to develop a new approach
- Particularly suitable for custom development
projects - Especially under tough conditions (uncertainty,
risk, variability) - Enriching its offer
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Long term goals operational plans
- Improve the sinergy between traditional system
integration XP - Build a foundation of AMs
- Enhance visibility of optional scope approach
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Our expectations
- We expect that
- XP and AMs gain a much broader acceptance in the
business community - In order to do that there is a need of better
data coming from the ground field - There will be more collaboration between AMs
traditional Software Engineering - Complexity Chaos theory will help to model and
manage evolutionary aspects of requirements
elicitation - New design concepts, new programming paradigms
shall enhance communication aspects in code
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