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Thinking & Customizing Agile
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Sivaram Athmakuri (Business First Agile Professional)
PMP, ACP, CSM, CSP, CSPO, Agile PM Practitioner
Assistant Vice President
Thinking & Customizing Agile
Agenda • Welcome • Thinking Agile
– Changing Mindset – Agile Benefits
• #1 Challenge • Customizing
– Product Owner (Onsite), Team (Offshore) – Proxy Product Owner
• Results
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Illustration – Examination (Model)
Annual examination (ONLY)
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Semester Exam
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Illustration – Mobile Features
• How many features are available?
• How many you use?
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Illustration - Shopping
• Do you prepare a list before shopping?
• Do you follow it?
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Agile benefits
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• Minimize risk
• Respond to dynamics
• Involves Users/Customers
• Deepens Ownership/relation ship
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• How many projects have a Dedicated Product Owner ?
– Only 24% of Agile projects have dedicated PO
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#1 Challenge
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• How to win Product Owner (PO) and influence them better
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Product owner at onsite, team at Offshore
• Product Owner available for limited time
– Slows response time
– Introduces errors from both directions
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Proxy acting as Product Owner
– Proxy PO and PO having different visions
– Proxy PO not taking decisions (or not given authority to take decisions)
– Decisions taken by Proxy PO are over-ruled
– Product Owner acting as Guest
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Product owner at onsite, team at Offshore
• Increase Participation/Involvement by
– User Stories (Requirements in Business Language)
– Sprint Planning(PO defines Priority for functionality)
– Informal Demo after User Story is done -don’t wait till Sprint review (PO provides continuous feedback)
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Proxy acting as Product Owner
• Find the Best fit from client’s side (to be Proxy)
– Department Head (ZM-Sales if CRM is developed)
– End Users (focus groups)
– Domain Experts/Business Analysts from our side (last choice)
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