The document provides an overview of scaling agile practices across distributed teams. It discusses Marc Carrel-Billiard's background and experience at Accenture. It then outlines how two projects at Digiplug, a Digital Supply Chain project and Retail Services Platform, implemented distributed agile practices with offshore teams to achieve mature agile delivery. Key steps included starting with offshore teams in development and testing, then scaling up the offshore teams and distributing operations and design experts.

1. Roadmap to Scaling Agile
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2. Quick introduction
• Marc Carrel-Billiard is Executive Partner with Accenture. He is
the Gallia Lead for the Advanced Systems and Technology
group.
• Marc has an implementation experience with an educational
background in component and object-oriented technology,
End-to-End architecture planning and delivery, and other
leading-edge technologies such as speech recognition or
neural network modeling.
• Marc has led a number of Global Technology initiatives within
Accenture. Recent engagements have covered large pan-
European electronic commerce and collaboration solutions in
the resources, the financial, the products and the transport
industries.
• Marc is part of the Accenture Technology Board in France and
has published several articles and books with Prentice-Hall
while working at IBM from 1985 to 1998.
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3. Agile at Scale
Using an incremental process, Agile provides a very natural way to scale your
development organization and deliver projects in a distributed environment

4. Practical Distributed Agile at Digiplug
Digital Supply Chain Retail Services Platform
Product Design includes Testing activities
Off-shore Agile delivery maturity steps
 Digital Supply Chain :
Agile off-shore in DEV UI
- Mature project : +3 years of Agile setup 1
Agile off-shore in TEST
- 40% off-shore delivery
- 6-week delivery cycle Agile off-shore in DEV Back-end
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- 6 major releases per year Scale-up Agile off-shore in TEST
 Retail Services Platform : 3 Scaling-up ALL off-shore teams
- Maturing project : +1 year of Agile Off-shore delivery
4 Distributed Operations Team
- 30% off-shore delivery
- 4-week delivery cycle 4
5 Distributed Agile Design Experts
- 3 to 4 major releases per year