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How to fail agile
projects?
- yes, we can! -
Kris D’Exelle, April 2014

2.
Krdexelle@csob.sk
Kris
D’Exelle
manager ICT development CSOB
agile pioneer
innovation enabler,
product developer

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What is CSOB?
• Part of KBC Bank and Insurance Group
• 11.000.000 customers
• 51.000 employees
• International
– Significant position in the markets of Central and Eastern
Europe. Key markets include: Slovakia, Czech Republic,
Hungary, Bulgaria.
– Represented in: Ireland, Luxemburg, Serbia, Slovenia,
USA, Russia, Romania, Holland, Switzerland, France, UK,
Asia,…

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Success…
•Agile as standard
•Improved
•quality
•T2M
•cost efficiency
•Enabled innovation
•t&m, ft/fp and offshore

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Agile is a mature, powerful and professional
methodology
Can lead to results beyond your imagination…

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Classical pitfalls…

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I read a book….

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Without experience, reality can be hard…

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Product owner
• Problem:
• Not (enough) available
• Several product owners,
• No mandate, lack of vision, no decision maker
• “scrum master can do this as well”

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Changing team composition

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Unrealistic scope management

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Inefficient or no stand up meetings

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Retrospective meeting skipped
No retrospective meeting

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No acceptance criteria, no definition of done
No acceptance criteria, definition of done

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Just start without plan, preparation or time estimate

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Incremental approach

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Incremental coding, without incremental
feedback

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Unfinished sprints, incremental snowball effect

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People make the difference

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Tools over verbal communication

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Documentation…

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Silver bullet expectations

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Being agile is great!