Ventouris Story - The largest agile J2EE project in the Benelux
Title:
The Ventouris Story - the largest agile J2EE project that was delivered in the Benelux in the period 2005 - 2009.
Submitters: Johan Lybaert & Jan Van Reusel
Abstract:
The Ventouris project is a from scratch development in java of a complex administrative application used by 8 concurrent companies to handle the social security rights of the self employeed people in Belgium. The application has been build using a combination of Scrum & XP Practices aswell as PMI based Program Management practices. The project started in 2005 and finished in Jan 2009 with the final roll-out to the last of 8 customers. It took us in total 30.000 mandays - the team at peak was 60 people - 4 feature teams in parallel + a migration team & deployment team and of course a program management team.
In this story we will show how the agile scrum and XP practices can be used in a very succesfull way for a large custom based development. We will for each of the best practices explain how we adpated ourselves and the classical procedures to make it work.
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