In the five years since I co-founded Bonitasoft with Miguel Valdes Faura and
Rodrigue Le Gall, our organization has come a long way.
We started with seven developers. We now have 17 dedicated full time to
Bonita BPM - along with a systems architect, a QA team, a documentation team,
and a "human factors" engineer. We've logged 2.75 million downloads, booked
875 customers and built a community of 60,000 contributors.
How do you triple the size of your development team in less than five years
and keep consistent control over your processes? Well, even for a company
that's in the business of helping others improve processes, it's been a
challenge, a learning experience - and a great opportunity to apply some
interesting "advanced" agile methodologies.
How We Started with Agile
Our initial small team focused on development of the Bonita Execution Engine,
the Bonita User ... (more)