1. Redefining Agility Using Tools
Sowmya Karunakaran
HCL Technologies

2. Requirements Management
PRODUCT BACKLOG on JIRA
PRODUCT BACKLOG on VersionOne
PRODUCT BACKLOG on PMSmart
Plan and manage requirements, epics,
stories, and goals across multiple projects,
products and teams.

3. Estimation
Online Planning Poker
Individual stories are presented for estimation. After a
period of discussion, each participant chooses from his own
deck the numbered card that represents his estimate of how
much work is involved in the story under discussion. All
estimates are kept private until each participant has chosen
a card. At that time, all estimates are revealed

4. Planning

5. Tracking

6. Collaboration tools
CONFLUENCE
CONVERSATION
S
BASE CAMP
WIKI
One place for teams to collaborate—
create, share, and discuss ideas, files,
minutes, specs, mockups, diagrams, and
project artifacts

7. Code Review tools
CRUCIBLE – Asynchronous distributed discussions
CODE COLLABORATOR –
Synchronous chat

8. F2F collaboration - Video Conferencing
Retrospection meeting on VC
Meetings Conducted on VC
•Sprint Planning
•Retrospection
•Story Point Estimation for Product Back log
Participants
•Offshore HCL Dev Team
•Onsite HCL Dev Team
•Client’s Solution Architect
•HCL Test Manger at Offshore
•Client’s Test Manger at Onsite
Duration
•Start and End of Sprint ( Sprint Duration 3-4 weeks)
Challenges
•Availability of VC Room, to be planned and blocked upfront
• Initial hiccups due to availability issues at client end.
Feedback/Opinion
•We felt like one team and it is appreciated by Client as well as team. I strongly recommend usage of VC.

9. Unstructured collaboration
PlayfieldTM provides a platform to all stakeholders across geographical locations to understand problems as
well as define, collaborate, review, and communicate solutions.
• Supports both voice and video for
collaboration, with text and multimedia chat
options
• Provides comprehensive whiteboarding
capabilities, including shapes, comments,
multimedia attachments etc.
• Allows shapes with voice – users can record
their voice comments against shapes so as to
capture the decisions arising during the
collaborative session
• Supports sticky notes
• Allows for Synchronous AutoPlay where an
instructor can “play” content on other users
clients
• Final output of collaboration session can be
published as PDF for subsequent input to
another session

10. Instant collaboration
Microsoft OCS - Lync IBM Sametime

11. Code Integrity
The set of files
and revision
numbers modified
for this build
Code
Metrics
Code Find Bugs
Unit Test
Coverage Reports
Code Reports
Reports
Style
Reports
The Build
Log
Version
Control
Reports
CI tools adoption trend in HCL agile projects

12. Test Planning and test case management
Link test to a requirement

13. Acceptance Testing
SELENIUM
WATIN/WATIR

14. Tools framework
Scrum Master Dev Team QA team
Tracking and Planning
Product backlog ,Stories management, Defects management
Metrics & reporting
IDE Integration testing
Unit testing Functional testing
Code Analysis Code Reviews
Continuous Integration
Configuration management
Collaboration
Wikis ,
PMSmart , Version One, Xunit, ePMD, FxCoP, Ncover, Hudson , Cruise Control ,
Confluence
AOD, JCoverage Luntbuild,VSS,Clearcase ,
VSTS TFS, Rally, JIRA , Eclipse, VS, NetBeans, svn
Pivotal tracker
Agile Fant
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15. Comments / Thoughts/ Queries ?
Thank You
sowmya.karunakaran@hcl.com