Mar 18
2013
Second in a Series on Readiness Fit Analysis for Adoption of Agile Methods
By Suzanne Miller
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program
The adoption of new practices, such as agile
or any new practice for that matter, is a task that is best undertaken
with both eyes open. There are often disconnects between the adopting
organization’s current practice and culture and the new practices being
adopted. This posting is the second installment in a series on Readiness & Fit Analysis (RFA),
which is a model and method for understanding risks when contemplating
or embarking on the adoption of new practices, in this case agile
methods. The RFA method helps organizations understand the barriers and
enablers to successful adoption that are present when an analysis is
performed. The first post in this series outlined the principles of RFA and described the Acquisition Support Program’s
work in extending RFA to support profiling and adoption risk
identification to organizations that are adopting agile methods. This
blog post continues the discussion with a more in-depth dive into one
more of the six RFA categories that we have identified.
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Oct 8
2012
By Suzanne Miller,
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program
All
software engineering and management practices are based on cultural and
social assumptions. When adopting new practices, leaders often find
mismatches between those assumptions and the realities within their
organizations. The SEI has an analysis method called Readiness and Fit
Analysis (RFA) that allows the profiling of a set of practices to
understand their cultural assumptions and then to use the profile to
support an organization in understanding its fit with the practices’
cultural assumptions. RFA has been used for multiple technologies and
sets of practices, most notably for adoption of CMMI practices. The method for using RFA and the profile that supports CMMI for Development adoption is found in Chapter 12 of CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement. This blog post discusses a brief summary of the principles behind RFA and describes the SEI Acquisition Support Program’s
work in extending RFA to support profiling and adoption risk
identification for Department of Defense (DoD) and other
highly-regulated organizations that are considering or are in the middle
of adopting agile methods.
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