Coaching Product and Enterprise Teams

Skiing and Boxing

Sergey Prokhorenko

Agile 2012

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Company Fact Sheet

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5,300+EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE

16OFFICES IN 10 COUNTRIES

100+CLIENTS, 30% FROM FORTUNE

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Large European provider of advanced application and product

development services.

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Agile business benefits

November, 2011

Agile Software Development for Enterprises

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Small 1-10 people

Medium 11-25 people

Large 26-100 people

Extra large 100+ people

Over 1000 Agile

people in 45 projects

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Internal Agile Consultancy

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Request from delivery project

Assessment (2 weeks)

Basic trainings (1-2 days)

Coaching (2-6 months)

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Kick-Off

Drivers of Agile transformation

Current process inefficiencies

Management support

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Tailored Game Plan

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Coaching Effectiveness

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Case Study:

Travel Website

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Fact Sheet

Record of waterfall process: 10 years

Typical time to market: 12 weeks

“Big bang” integration

Engineers: 50

Timezone difference: 10 hours

Teams organization: feature development teams

– Separate tests automation team

– Separate product development team

Consulting firm hired for on-site teams

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Time to market Bulky requirements

Low quality of estimates

Quality

Motivation and commitment

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Drivers and Challenges

No TDD/BDD culture

Long regression testing cycle

Developers didn’t put themselves in users’ shoes

Unclear requirements communication chain

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Product Owner as a Sports Coach

Experts in business domain

Good UX expertise

Close collaboration with PO enables team with

excellent understanding of requirements and UX

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Product Discovery Workshop

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TDD and CI Injection

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Time to market 12 weeks shortened to 6 weeks

Plans to go further down to 4 weeks

Quality

Motivation and commitment

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Agile Transition Results

TestNG and Cucumber tests piloted

Strong and opened collaboration

Mutual team trust

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Case Study:

Investment Bank

Risk Mgmt Tool

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Fact Sheet

Started as a greenfield R&D project

Distributed Scrum (-butt)

Typical time to market: 20 weeks

Engineers: 20

Time difference: 7 hours

Team organization: feature teams

– Proxy Product Owners within teams

– Separate UI prototyping team

Continuous integration process

Internal Agile CoE within bank IT department

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Time to market

Long communication chain between stakeholders

and developers

Complex business area

Scalability

Case study for Agile adoption

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Drivers and Challenges

Sustainable approach to launch new teams

Bottlenecks in requirements flow

Large amount of legacy waterfall projects

Needed to grow internal expertise in Agile

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Product Owner as a Facilitator

Understands big picture

Has good relationship with stakeholders

Manages backlog priority clashes

Provides team with access to SME

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Enhanced Communication

Weekly video calls with subject matter experts

Cadence for backlog refinement sessions

Business trips between locations

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Chief ScrumMaster Role

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One per location (several teams)

Facilitates inter-team collaboration

Visualizes high-level flow

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Project Level Visualization

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Time to market Almost 20 weeks shortened to 12 weeks

Plans to go further down to 8 weeks

Scalability

Case study for Agile adoption

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Agile Transition Results

6 offshore teams launched in under 6 months

Project visibility at top management level

Scrum adoption for other products in the same area

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What’s in

Common?

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Joint Coaching Efforts

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Growing Internal Agile Expertise

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Forming

Storming

Norming

Performing

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Sharing Long Term Goals

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Built-In Quality

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What’s Different?

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Direction of Agile Adoption

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Initiated by management

Led by example

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Product Owner vs Product Backlog Owner

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Communication Channels

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Differ and Blend Techniques

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Questions?

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