A large-scale effort project with multiple teams decided to establish a transition in their development process from the traditional waterfall methodology towards agile development. Then, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. As with any transition, there were stepping-stones and falling points. However, doing so in the midst of a global pandemic certainly did not make it any easier! The program initially was one large organization with a single work area. It since has been transformed into three different work areas within a division, experimented with a number of different processes and tools, and...
Jonathan Graham
Scientist
NSWC Dahlgren Division
Jonathan Graham has been in the thick of agile development efforts for the better part of 16 years, working through all different roles on the agile teams. His experience as a developer, tester, automation engineer, product owner, scrum master, and chief scrum master for large-scale projects has provided many opportunities to experiment, fail and adapt to allow him to lead agile transformations at large-scale effort.