Regional Scrum Gathering® India 2014 was conducted at Trident hotel, Hyderabad on 12th July 2014. Sivaram Athmakuri spoke on Baby steps to become Agile (for Bigger Organizations).
Scrum is the most popular agile framework and practised by many companies.
Whether it is an Organisation or Person, they get easily attracted by Scrum concepts afterthey understand the underlying concepts.
Challenge is whether they can take these concepts and convince management in implementing full Scrum. Size of the Organisation matters in taking such crucial decisions. If Organisations are smaller (like Horse), they can move/change as they like. If organisation is huge/big (like Elephants), they can't move so easily... even if they want to move.
Recent State of Scrum mentions that
• 13% of those who started with Waterfall now use Scrum exclusively
• Most ended up with a mix of Waterfall and Scrum
• 8% went back to Waterfall
This clearly says 87% of companies have challenges in using Scrum exclusively.
BiggerOrganisations Agile Journey can be as mentioned below
Water fall --> DSDM--->Scrum
Dynamic systems development method (DSDM) is an agile project delivery framework, primarily used as a software development method. First released in 1994, DSDM originally sought to provide some discipline to the rapid application development (RAD) method. In 2007 DSDM became a generic approach to project management and solution delivery. DSDM is an iterative and incremental approach that embraces principles of Agile development, including continuous user/customer involvement.
Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing software projects and product or application development. It defines "a flexible, holistic product development strategy where a development team works as a unit to reach a common goal"
My presentation covered
• What is Scrum (High Level)
• What is DSDM (Detailed)
• Evaluate Project needs (whether needs Agile or not)
• Evaluate Customer (whether suits for Agile or not)
• Execute few Projects in DSDM
• Based on Experience, Start Scrum Projects (by taking teams who executed using DSDM)
Baby steps to become Agile (for Bigger Organizations)
1. Baby steps to become Agile
by
Sivaram Athmakuri
(Business First Agile Professional)
PMP, ACP, CSM, CSP, CSPO, Agile PM Practitioner
Vice President
2. Baby steps to become Agile
Agenda
• Welcome
• Scrum helps ….
• Scrum at my company ???
• Even ‘State of Scrum’ says….
• Start Baby Steps to agile
• DSDM Atern at a Glance
• Evaluate Customers/Projects/Teams
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Sivaram Athmakuri siva_athma@yahoo.com
10. ‘State of Scrum’ Survey includes….
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11. Out of every 100 first time Scrum
projects
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• 13% of those who started with Waterfall now
use Scrum exclusively
• Most ended up with a mix of Waterfall and
Scrum
• 8% went back to Waterfall
12. 12
clearly says 87% of companies have
challenges in using Scrum exclusively
Sivaram Athmakuri siva_athma@yahoo.com
18. In DSDM Atern, you have Project Manger
• Communicates with Senior Management and
Project governance authorities
• Responsible for High level Planning (not task
level)
• Monitors Project progress
• Manages Risks/Issues (on Demand/Escalation)
• Intervenes if meeting “Must” is less
• Coaching Team in difficult situations
Sivaram Athmakuri siva_athma@yahoo.com
