Most teams that do agile development start with Scrum. And why not? Scrum is a proven method for focusing your team, ensuring that work adds value, and minimizing the risk with release. Then, after awhile, Scrum becomes stagnant. There are no more speed increases, and the team focuses more on ceremonies than delivery. At this point, Extreme Programming (XP), and Lean XP in particular, is the next step in agile maturity. Lean XP means developing software at the last possible moment ("just-in-time development") using one-week sprints, test driven development, pairing at all levels,...
Jim Collins
CUNA Mutual Group
Jim Collins is a certified SAFe Scaled Agilist, Professional ScrumMaster, and Project Management Professional. A Navy veteran, Jim has more than thirty years of experience in the defense, gaming (lottery), and financial industries. Jim has spent the last twenty years in various management roles in IT, with the last few years as a manager of digital transformation. Most recently, Jim successfully moved his teams from traditional Scrum to a lean version of Extreme Programming, using an approach championed by Pivotal software. He is not the guy who wrote Good to Great, although they do share the same name.