Octopus : Agile software development facing our imperfect world

Agile practices offer very successful improvements for building software. Despite these great enrichments, we are trying to reduce the unknown part in software projects: the so-called 'human factor'. We are still in the pursuit of the magic potion - that will help us solve issues like initial requirements specifications, parallel evolutions and change management. For Octopus we had to change people's practices remotely in poor countries like Tajikistan and Afghanistan. Here is the true story of an agile project that had to adapt its practices drastically to meet real life conditions.