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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[email protected]

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Once upon a time

in the end of 2012…

The Reality


Software Development became

core to business

New IT Development Unit

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The Heroes


The Challenges


Communication

DeliveryRequirements

~14.000.000 lines

Team Organization


PRODUCT OWNER

ARCHITECTURE

GROUPTECHNICAL LEAD

SCRUM MASTER

TEAM MEMBER

The Practices


Management

Scrum based1

Daily Meetings, Planning & Retrospective

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3 weeks cycle3

Engineering

Continuous Integration1

Peer Review2

Incremental Design3

The Board


Retrospective


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!


Global Challenge


Team ”Upgrade”

10Functional Experts

30Software Engineers

25+ Different Backgrounds

Rich Experience

Portfolio.

250+ Accumulated Years Of Experience

…and Growing!


Some current Heroes


Streams & Workgroup

Projects Mainline Technical FastTrack Innovation

FunctionalAnalysis

Scrum ofScrums

ArchitectureWorkgroup


Backlogs

Strategic Roadmap

All the features ofproduct roadmap

Stream’s Backlog

All the features of a particular stream

Sprint Backlog

Stories for thesprint


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


FRDyyyWeek 9

% Development

FRDyyyWeek 8

% Development

FRDyyyWeek 7


FRDzzz

Week 1

% Development

FRDxxx

FA check point FA check point



Global Control


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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A

C

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Create Trust and Rapport

Observe and Assess

Ask Powerful Questions

Challenge and Give Feedback

Hold Accountable

Retrospective


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


Leadership & Management

The Story of Agile @ Vortal - Agile Portugal