Agiles 2009 - Agile PMO

Agile PMO”improvingprojectshealth”
Ariel Schapiro

Plan
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context

Southworks.NET
ISO 9001:2000
x 4

Projects
.NET
WCF
Training Kits
Handsonlabs
SaaS (S+S)
Silverlight
WPF
WF
Identity
Windows Azure
Reference implementation applications

SCRUM-likeProcess
TDD
PairProgramming
(2~3 months total duration)
Customer participation
Weekly meetings schedule
Iteration Backlog

Continuous Improvement

HealthCheckmeasurementprocess

Anatomy of the process
HardIndicators
Formal Process
(ISO, CMMi)
RetrospectiveServices
Customerfeedback

HardIndicators
Teamselfassesment
basedonthresholds
and backed up byevidence.

HardIndicators
HardIndicators

Good…
Poor…
Consider…

Customerfeedback
Customerfeedback

Anatomy of the process
HardIndicators
Formal Process
(ISO, CMMi)
Customerfeedback

Results &conclusions

Results
Age (weeks)

Results

Results
"The project map helped me to understand the global scope of the project and to know easily what are we working on right now.“
“These assets really help me on planning ahead the testing process."
"Screencasts were and still are very useful for me to go over the progress made during the sprint.“

Conclusions
Improvement because of:
Self measurement: reflecting
Osmotic communication (Alistair Cockburn) at a company level
Scrum + engineeringpractices
Valuable initiatives imitation
Sharing + Reusability

Ariel Schapiro
ariel.schapiro@southworks.net
http://blogs.southworks.net/aschapiro/
Thanks!