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1 Walmart Global eCommerce Group Confidential

Team Walmart Agile Journey Kamal Manglani, Agile Lead, Walmart GeC

Walmart Panel: Dawn Marshall, Senior Product Leader, Walmart GeC Sim Dort, Manager Recruiting, Walmart GeC

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Individuals don't win, teams do. - Sam Walton

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Rewind.. (# of Agile Teams)

2011

8 130+

2013 2009

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Resistance:

Grassroots

Experiment

First Exec

Confidence

Organization Goal

Setting 2012:

25% Agile Teams

2012

Agile Warp speed

Grassroots change

Exciting but chaotic Inspirational Rip the Band-Aid 3 3

Agile Steering Group

4 4

Process

5 5

Definition for Agile at Walmart

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Continuous Assessment of Agile Fundamentals

8 8

Cross Team Dependencies Planning

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20% epics deferred

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Improved delivery commitments by over 50%

Demo Days

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Team Space China – A team doing their Daily Stand up

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UX Foundations based on Walmart Design Thinking Principles

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Training and Development

13 13

Founded Walmart Mega Meet up: A Fun way to Learn Cutting edge topics from Thought Leaders

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Global Meet ups ..How we integrate with Broader Community

15 Frequency from once in a month to every week 15

Training Teams in China

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Chris spent 3 weeks in Shanghai to make the teams comfortable in Agile for Infrastructure

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Challenges on our journey?

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X Culture

X Communication

X Environments

X Tools

X Vendors

X Distributed Teams

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Solutions

XCulture

XCommunication

XEnvironments

X Tools

XVendors

XDistributed Teams

Leaders empowered teams to

solve problems

Teams figured out work around

with “can do” attitude

Enabled technology for greater

collaboration on distributed

teams

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What next?

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Agile is now our DAY job...it’s now our Culture!

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Who is driving your Agile Transformation?

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Our driving force:

Agile Steering Group

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