Table 2 A summary of the organizations described in this report
From: Agile methods in biomedical software development: a multi-site experience report
Organization | Type | Application(s) and Users | Team Size | Previous Approach |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Applied Biosystems | Commercial | A custom workflow engine as a component to be used by developers of products. | Two developers, a part time project manager, and a customer. | Approach based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) |
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Academic | A community tool to collect, analyze, report, and share genetic sequence data. | Four engineers for both developing this application and maintaining legacy systems. | Approach similar to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) |
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Academic | A freely available, open source cancer pathway database with a growing array of public users. | One scientific lead, and one architect/developer. | None. Agile-like practices used since inception of project. |
National Cancer Institute | Government (supported by a commercial contractor) | A variety of tools to integrate and visualize integromic data set that are made available to the public. | Three engineers and a bioinformatics analyst. | No explicit process |
Northwestern University Center for Functional Genomics | Academic | Two projects written at the Center, with users onsite and at two other institutions participating in a consortium. | Three to five developers, domain and quality assurance staff. | No explicit process |
Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Academic | A clinical support application. | Three developers and additional quality assurance and configuration management support staff. | A plan driven development approach that emphasized extensive up front design |