Enterprise Scrum Tips on what to do, and don't do, while adopting Scrum throughout the organization. Danilo Bardusco <bardusco@gmail.com>

History

9 years ago... Globo.com was created, with the mission of be the Internet arm of Globo Organizations

2000,March a team with just over 20 people, has bring to live the very first portal's version.

2000,July ”Globo.com starring the biggest dot.com transaction in Latin America” Fonte: REUTERS

2001,August Globo.com has hired me and Antonio Carlos Silveira to start the WebMedia division.

2002,January Globo.com gets the 3° position on the brazilian online audience ranking.

2006,June Hit a record of traffic generated by a single Internet portal in Brazil with the World Cup Soccer.

400.000 subscribers

15Gb/s Internet traffic

Leading: * News * Sports * Entertainment * Videos

85 Millions of videos/month

but...

We can't delivery more than 1 big product per year.

We'd a long list of BUGs after releases.

A legacy code base, without tests, very hard to maintain.

so many failed projects

why?

400+ employees

15+ departments

4 locations

to much beurocracy

2007,May first Scrum pilot

Big Brother Brazil subscriptions

SUCCESS!

Oddities Main requirement was never delivered Despite that the client was very happy!(scope negotiation) Noise and Post-Its on the walls drew the attention of the entire company. Board requested a presentation to know what is this scrum is about.

2008,January 4 multi-functional teams working with Scrum

Departments starting to loose power.

100+ People trained by Boris Gloger

Scrum of Scrums SoS daily with Scrum Masters

Velocity++ Quality++

7 dissolved departments

16 Is the number of teams that make all Globo.com's product development.

Communities's Scrum of Scrums Agile Process Product portfolio, corporate backlog Web Design Standards Web Standards Information Architecture Testing tools, test automation, etc, Scrum of Scrums (developers)

Hierarchy / Departments Organizational structure radically changed

Reward Reward model need to be changed

so?

stability?

why?

PUSH x PULL

Management way must change Trust

Kaizen Mind lack of a sense of urgency.

XP practices Agile engineering practices.

Meta-Scrum Portfolio management

Reuse 5 twitters like in less than one year.

New Platform Scalable Distributed Service Oriented Architecture Easy to use Fast to develop

Scalable

Distributed

Service Oriented Architecture

Easy to use

Fast to develop

Start 1 Team 12 Sprints

Making new teams

estimation?

Syncronizing All 6 teams started theirs Sprints together Individual Sprint Plannings Daily Meeting at 9:30h (each team) Daily Scrum of Scrums at 9:50h Collective Review at auditorium with everybody.

All 6 teams started theirs Sprints together

Individual Sprint Plannings

Daily Meeting at 9:30h (each team)

Daily Scrum of Scrums at 9:50h

Collective Review at auditorium with everybody.

Colaboration tools Mailling list (no more emails) IRC (no more IM) GitHub PasteBin Live documentation on Wiki

Mailling list (no more emails)

IRC (no more IM)

GitHub

PasteBin

Live documentation on Wiki

3 days of hands-on trainning

tips!

Do not parallelize - reduces the stock of unfinished products - help on self-management - regulate the team size - kick out of confort zone

In large scale, less is more - search for alternatives - Reuse solutions - Explore a lot of ideas

Be a Lazy Boy 1. just do what is absolutely necessary to achieve the GOAL 2. don't reinvent the wheel 3. simplify 4. automate

2009,January We've got the top position in page views among the brazilian web portals. source: alexa.com

Thank you! It's possible to write quality software without beurocracy. Danilo Bardusco <bardusco@gmail.com> http://blog.bardusco.com