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