This document summarizes Tom Mantsch's presentation at the Agile Tour Vienna 2014 conference about using agile and lean practices in real life. It describes various practices the company uses, including daily standup meetings, weekly tech talks and brown bag sessions, hackathons, and social events to build team spirit. It also outlines aspects of their agile workflow like using scrum boards to track work in progress, evolving their product backlog, and conducting retrospectives to continuously improve. The presentation emphasizes how honesty was a key factor in the success of one of their projects.

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Company
Culture
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Company Standup
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CTO
CEO

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Tech Talks &
Brown Bag Sessions
• Tech Talk – Every week on Tuesday for one hour
• QA Brown Bag Session – Every 2nd week
• Architecture Meeting
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5. Hackathon (Fedex
Day)
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6. Company and Team
Events
• Project Drinks
• Summer Party
• Table Tennis (Tournament)
• Xmas Party + Secret Santa
• Beer o’clock
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Team
Spirit
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8. Success through
Honesty
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Why was the project successful?
PO: “I don’t think there was s
single trigger that enabled this
really, but if I really had to
think of one then I’d say it was
honesty!”

9. Distributed Team
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10. Scrum/Kanban Board
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11. Product Backlog
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DEFECT
STORY
TECHNICAL TASK

12. Board Evolution
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13. Additional Team
Boards
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14. Track the Flow of
Work
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15. CI Build Visualization
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16. Standup Meeting
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17. Retrospectives
• Glad – Sad – Mad
• Analyze the flow of tasks
• Bug Root-Cause-Analysis
• Ban working over-time
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18. Story Workshop
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Thomas Mantsch
IT Consultant
EBCONT proconsult GmbH
„Knowledge has to be
improved, chal lenged, and
increased constant ly or i t
vanishes. “
Millennium Tower, Handelskai 94-96, Stock 34, 1200 Wien
M +43 664 60651668, F +43 2772 512 69-9
thomas.mantsch@ebcont.com | @tomMantsch | www.ebcont.com
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