Table 3 The commonality of key practices and attributes across the projects
From: Agile methods in biomedical software development: a multi-site experience report
Practice\Organization | Applied Biosystems | Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | National Cancer Institute | Northwestern University Center for Functional Genomics | Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Customer Collaboration | ||||||
Onsite Customer |  | • |  | • |  |  |
Automated Acceptance Testing |  |  |  |  |  | • |
Use Cases | • |  | • |  |  |  |
User Stories | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Planning | ||||||
Iterative Development | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Feature/Product Backlog | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Mid-range Planning |  | • | • | • | • |  |
Scrum Meeting | • |  |  | • | • | • |
Developer Task Self-Selection | • | • |  | • | • | • |
Building | ||||||
Automated Unit Tests | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Collective Code Ownership | • | • |  | • | • | • |
Continuous Integration | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Nightly Builds & Tests | • | • | • |  | • |  |
Refactoring | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Shared/Open Workspace/Team Room | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Adoption | ||||||
Sponsor | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Champion | • | • | • | • | • | • |