Slide 2:
What We’re Doing Now (which isn’t working very well) Scrum (which we hope will work much better) ScrumBut (which usually doesn’t work very well)
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“Wickets”
XYZSoft Scrum Adoption:
XYZSoft Scrum Adoption Offshore development company based in Gurgaon, doing an engagement with a US-based client Using Scrum for the first time Cross-functional team of 10 people, with basic training in Scrum and agile development practices ScrumMaster role played by the architect (in additional to doing architecture and some coding) Product Owner role played by the (ex-)Project Manager, because customer is too busy to be involved day-to-day Sprints of 2 weeks Product Backlog created and prioritized by the client Client has sized the Product Backlog, and the contract requires the team to deliver at least 20 points of Product Backlog per Sprint
Smart Technologies Pvt Ltd:
Smart Technologies Pvt Ltd RFID product company based in the US and Singapore Teams and ScrumMasters in Singapore, Product Owner in US Shifting from “waterfall” annual releases to 3 releases per year using Scrum Three cross-functional teams of 5 people, with basic training in Scrum and agile development practices ScrumMaster role played by the (ex-)Project Manager Sprints of 4 weeks Product Backlog created and prioritized by the Product Owner Each 4-month release has a flexible scope (60% “Must have” – 20% “Should Have” – 20% “Could Have” items) Basic testing of new features during each Sprint One-month manual regression test before each release
Slide 11:
Inspect & Adapt Transparency
Thanks!:
good agile > Thanks!