O&B Adoption Story by Butch Landingin at the Agile Executive Forum hosted by Orange and Bronze Software Labs. October 26, 2011 About O&B: Orange & Bronze is an offshore product and software development firm in the Philippines, is one of the first companies in Asia to use and advocate Agile Software Development, and has been using it since our inception in 2005, back when Agile was still an emerging movement. O&B offers training courses for Agile with Scrum and XP - these classes were developed and are taught by some of the Philippines' well-known and respected Agile / Scrum coaches and practitioners, and uses the format trusted by some of the best companies in the Philippines.

4. Chaos Theory

5. Chaos Theory

8. Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.

9. Two Stories

12. Fixing a bug

14. Fixing a bug

15. Software Development is FUNDAMENTALLY a CHAOTIC process.

16. The Story of Orange & Bronze

17. The Story of Orange & Bronze

18. The Story of Orange & Bronze

19. Agile Adoption in the Philippines (circa 2005)

22. Too new, untested, not trusted by the local IT community

24. Too new, untested, not trusted by the local IT community

25. Most of local IT community was not even aware of the AGILE METHODOLOGIES

27. Too new, untested, not trusted by the local IT community

28. Most of local IT community was not even aware of the AGILE METHODOLOGIES

29. Very hard to convince local IT community to use Time &Material (T&M) project models, very fixated on FIXED BID contracts...

30. Hybrid Approach

33. Agile team processes: iterative delivery, agile development practices like unit tests, pair programming, readiness to incorporate changes, etc.

35. Agile team processes: iterative delivery, agile development practices like unit tests, pair programming, readiness to incorporate changes, etc.

36. Traditional for client facing aspects: Fixed Bid, Fixed Scope (but not really), Milestone-based delivery and payment schemes...

37. Results

41. Project B - 8 month estimate became 2 years

46. Team burnout,

49. Team burnout,

50. Financial Losses for O&B

51. Conclusion

54. What we did next

58. Moving away from fixed bid projects

63. Results

67. Most of our projects are T&M Agile projects

72. Questions?

74. Consulting, outsourcing, and offshore product development services using Open Source technologies, with a specialization in the Spring and Grails frameworks

75. Enterprise solutions with Google enterprise products and business intelligence solutions with the Pentaho BI Suite

76. Offers Java, Agile and Android training courses www.orangeandbronze.com