It´s funny… In March 09 i wrote about a “work person” exiting the elevator saying that “Scrum doesn´t work on large scale Oracle projects“. Now, 9 month later i found myself about to try just that.
For most of this fall i have been working as the lead architect for a large (I call it large when it is designed to handle 45 000 000 transactions/week) national tracking system for the food industry in Norway based on the EPC IS standard. We evaluated the requirements and landed on Oracle as a technology partner.
After beating IBM in a close head2head BID race for the system we ´re now ready to begin the project initialization process and we have through the whole process had the goal to use scrum as project methodology. We have put together a great team of highly skilled engineers and developers and we know that there are two fixed factors, price and project end date. This is going to be fun!
Maybe sometime next summer I can come to a conclusion on whether Scrum works or don´t for large scale Oracle projects?
To say that Scrum doesn’t work in a SW-project is comparable to say that common sense doesn’t work (which hopefully it does work for you guys as well :) ). It should be coupled with Project Risk Analysis/Management though – especially if you are looking for top performance and delivery on predefined time and cost.
Hi,
Did scrum work for your oracle project, if so can u let me know the tools for Oracle scrum implementations and your experiences :)
Cheers
Sathya