Slides from the presentation I gave at Sureskills 'Agile - Making it Work' breakfast briefing in Dublin on November 27th. I describe the reasons for introducing Scrum, how we went about it, and the improvements that the change has delivered.

1. 11/12/2013

2. Rolling out Agile in
Paddy Power
11/12/2013
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3. Paddy Power
What you might already know

4. Paddy Power
What you might not know
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5. Paddy Power
Product Development
Paddy Power
Development
Teams
Product
Vendors
Development
Partners
•Web Development
•Mobile Development
•Java Development
•Scripting
•Reporting
• Betting Platform
• Games Developers
• Casino, Poker, Bingo software
• Outsourced Development
• Outsourced Testing services

6. Why move to agile?
Scaling organisation

7. Why move to agile?
Scaling organisation

8. Why move to agile?
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9. Preparing for agile
Approach
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10. Preparing for agile
Guiding principles
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11. Preparing for agile
Initial training
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12. Executing the transition
Kick-off and planning
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13. Executing the transition
Changing other work practices
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14. Executing the transition
Phased transition
2013 Jan
T1
T2
T3
T4
T5
T6
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Recruit
Recruit
InTeam
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
x2
Scrum
x2
Scrum
x2
Recruit
Recruit
InTeam
InTeam
InTeam
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Inflight
Inflight
Inflight
InTeam
InTeam
InTeam
Scrum
Scrum
Recruit
Inflight
Inflight
Inflight
Inflight
InTeam
InTeam
Scrum

15. Executing the transition
External teams
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16. Agile – the story so far
Results
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17. Agile – the story so far
What we have learned
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18. Agile – the story so far
Still working on…
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19. Keep in touch
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@paulmhayes