The Story of Agile @ Vortal - Agile Portugal

Supporting governments and

corporations in achieving savings

The Story of Agile

@ VORTAL

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Who I am…

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Rui Barreira

Senior Delivery Manager/Agile Coach

@ VORTAL

Agile Enthusiast since 2008

Experienced Software Architect and

Product Manager

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rui.barreira@vortal.biz

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Once upon a time

in the end of 2012…

The Reality

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Software Development became

core to business

New IT Development Unit

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The Heroes

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The Challenges

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Communication

DeliveryRequirements

~14.000.000 lines

Team Organization

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PRODUCT OWNER

ARCHITECTURE

GROUPTECHNICAL LEAD

SCRUM MASTER

TEAM MEMBER

The Practices

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Management

Scrum based1

Daily Meetings, Planning & Retrospective

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3 weeks cycle3

Engineering

Continuous Integration1

Peer Review2

Incremental Design3

The Board

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Retrospective

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14 Releases / 10 Months

Fully committed team

Responsive to Change

Lack of continuous improvement

Lack of external process visibility

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Going to

SOUTH AMERCIA!

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Global Challenge

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Team ”Upgrade”

10Functional Experts

30Software Engineers

25+ Different Backgrounds

Rich Experience

Portfolio.

250+ Accumulated Years Of Experience

…and Growing!

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Some current Heroes

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Streams & Workgroup

Projects Mainline Technical FastTrack Innovation

FunctionalAnalysis

Scrum ofScrums

ArchitectureWorkgroup

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Backlogs

Strategic Roadmap

All the features ofproduct roadmap

Stream’s Backlog

All the features of a particular stream

Sprint Backlog

Stories for thesprint

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Sprints & Acceptance

Sprint 1

% Functional Analysis Acceptance

FRDxxxWeek 2

% Development

FRDxxx

Week 4 Week 6Week 5

% Development

FRDzzz

% Development

FRDzzz

Week 3

Sprint 2

Sprint 3

% Functional Analysis Acceptance

FRDyyyWeek 9

% Development

FRDyyyWeek 8

% Development

FRDyyyWeek 7

% Functional Analysis Acceptance

FRDzzz

Week 1

% Development

FRDxxx

FA check point FA check point

FA check point FA check point

FA check point FA check point

Global Control

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Done is better than perfect

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Development

Finished Report

Code Commented

and Committed to

Line

Technical

Requirement

Document

Unit Tests

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Practice, repetition, learn, adapt

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Team Lists 10 Problems

Act

Find

Options

Prioritize

Review

2 more

problems

There is always someone slower

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Create Trust and Rapport

Observe and Assess

Ask Powerful Questions

Challenge and Give Feedback

Hold Accountable

Retrospective

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7000 hours delivered

Focus on people

Continuous improvement

Bigger team, less proximity

Automate, Automate, Automate

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COMMITMENT

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COLLECTIVE

OWNERSHIP

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COMMUNICATION &

COLLABORATION

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PEOPLE

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THIS IS HOW WE DO IT

AND YOU?

THANKS

for your attention

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