1. Lessons I Learned from
an Agile Transition in
the Energy Sector
From
0 to 120
Persons
in 12 Months
Stephanie Gasche

2. Who am I?
⟩ Management Consultant at Boris Gloger
⟩ Studied English, History and International
Business Management in the UK and France
⟩ Assists Agile Organisations and Scrum-Team
members during the change
⟩ Founded her own start-up
www.fleissigebiene.com in 2014
⟩ Blogs about Agility at
http://borisgloger.com/author/stephanie-
gasche/

3. Welcome to the Energy Sector
One group...
⟩ Revenue: ~8 billion (2012)
⟩ Profit: ~140 million (2012)
...but three companies involved: business,
product management and IT services

4. Welcome to the Energy Sector
Our client: product management company
The product: SAP-based internal
accounting system
The problem: “requirement jam“

5. Suit up. We want the full-on Agile

6. Step #1: Transition Team
John P. Kotter Leading Change
“Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition“
⟩ Who? Management
⟩ What? Get the organisation ready for the
transition
⟩ How? Have you heard of Scrum…
October 2012

7. Step #2: Make it or break it
Turning the 2
most different and
most delicate projects
into
2 Scrum-Teams
October 2012

9. Step #3: Try something different
Put people from
2 different departments
into
1 cross-functional Scrum-Team
January 2013

11. Step #4: Scaling Scrum
⟩ Team re-shuffle April 2013

12. ScrumMaster Team
⟩ Attempt #1: loose coordination
⟩ Attempt #2: Sprints
⟩ Attempt #3: topic-related carers
April 2013

13. Product Owner Team
⟩ Two Domain Product Owners
⟩ 1 Company Product Owner
⟩ Regular synchronisation
April 2013

14. ...in the meantime...
Info-Events

15. Sprint-Party

16. Impediment
Party

17. Introduction of KPIs

18. Scrum Street

19. Step #5:
Transition Team 2.0
⟩ 4 areas of
specialisation
⟩ Mentoring for
Scrum-Teams
June 2013

20. Step #6: Scaling Scrum even further
September 2013
September 2013

21. Lessons Learned
⟩ Follow John P. Kotter‘s 8
Critical Steps to Success more
accurately
⟩ Get everyone on-board from
day one
⟩ Management should live
Scrum
⟩ Get hired by your real client
⟩ Transparency
⟩ Introduce KPIs at the very
beginning
⟩ Adapt your pace to the
company

22. Lessons I Learned from
an Agile Transition in
the Energy Sector
From
0 to 120
Persons
in 12 Months
Stephanie Gasche