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Organizations of different stripes are discovering that the methodology known as Scrum offers a faster, safer route to quality software development — including Idaho’s Health and Welfare Department and financial management solutions firm Intuit, which both call upon a Scrum-based lifecycle management tool to help them navigate the wide open terrain.
Encouraged by a Scrum-led project that went off without a hitch, the project management staff of the State of Idaho Health and Welfare Department committed to using the same methodology on future efforts, including a major four-phase project to replace a 22-year-old legacy mainframe application.
An online search for a Scrum training provider in the Northwest led the agency to Danube Technologies, a company specializing in management and engineering best practices for software development organizations. Department members attended training courses in the summer of 2006, and soon adopted Danube’s ScrumWorks Pro lifecycle management solution for the first phase of the legacy replacement project, which involved creating capacity-building tools for the department’s clients to help them accomplish their daily workload.
The second phase, lasting about 14 months, revolved around identifying and acquiring the best-in-class tools that would be the foundation for the new system. Phase three started …
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