By Jaime Meyer, ISIS CommunicationsWe told you a few months ago that Sprint 1 (the first of seven ZIMS development “bursts”) would deliver a working piece of software on January 2, 2009. We delivered. We met our first major deadline. Sprint 2 will be delivered February 23. We will meet that deadline. After seven sprints we will deliver “ZIMS Release 1” (Animal Management for Zoos and Aquariums). Click here to see the entire sprint schedule.
When we say “delivered” we mean that the software is working and it meets the business requirements as set out in the specifications document. In contrast, the first development process took 21 months to deliver a “build” that did not work, partly because the process used was designed to deliver a massive, buggy build with 1,000 screens and a million lines of code that would then be tested by scores of people over months to find and correct bugs. But the simple fact is now, under our new development process we are seeing working software far, far sooner which allows us to respond to problems, or, in some cases move even faster than planned.
It cannot go unsaid that a big reason we are able to work faster now is that so many in the community worked so hard to set the specific parameters for what they needed from ZIMS. We are working faster now because this development process leverages that global “brain trust” in a far different way than in the previous process. So, once again, thank you to all who have put their energy into making ZIMS a reality.
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