Scrum process under specific extremely short conditions

Fast Changing Environment Software Development Methodology for Zuzana Šochová zuzana@soch.cz, sochova@certicon.cz Technical Director at CERTICON: http://www.certicon.cz Co-founder of Agile Consortium at Czech Republic: http://agilnikonsorcium.cz Agile blog: http://soch.cz/blog Extreme SCRUM

Presentation Outline • Introduction - LOI Case Study • Specifics • Practices • Results • Difficulties

Agile Adoption Survey 2009 for my MBA dissertation http://soch.cz/agilesurvey.html - How to start Agile? - What did we learned? - How tight must be Agile with the company culture?

LOI Case Study - Introduction Web solutions

LOI Case Study - Introduction Standard products, low customization

LOI Case Study - Introduction Long-term customers Partnership & Collaboration Sales marketing Introduce to the Brand marketing Internet is more than new customers web presentation Keep existing Persuade customers customers

LOI Case Study – Starting Point Poor project & time management Poor estimates Late delivery No customer relationship High customization Difficult design

Lot of Idea Company

Lot of Idea Case - Specifics Small company 3 people Short-term projects Hours Strict delivery conditions ‘On time or free’

What We Did and Why Scrum method with half-day Sprint: WHY? • Average task 2h • Web solution in 3days • E-shop in 5days Low overhead x Fast reaction to the project status

LOI – Beginning SCRUM Half day Sprint including – Pre-Planning & Planning – Stand-up meeting – Point estimations – Tasks in backlog – Reflection meeting

At the Beginning…

Difficulties – Extremely fast – No backup – Dependent on the customer responses – Strict business model – High risk

… Couple Weeks Later

Summary – What We Did… – Half-day Sprint – Stand-up meetings every half-day – Pre-planning and planning – Early customer communication – Communication within the team – Team cooperation

Conclusion In 2 months we‘ve been able to fix: –Predictability –On-time delivery –Customer satisfaction –Increase velocity by 30%

Thank you for your attention Zuzana Šochová zuzana@soch.cz http://www.certicon.cz http://soch.cz/blog Please help me with Agile Adoption Survey: http://soch.cz/agilesurvey.html

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