Points: 100 Case Study 1: Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story Criteria Unacceptable Below 60% F Meets Minimum Expectations 60-69% D Fair 70-79% C Proficient 80-89% B Exemplary 90-100% A 1. Determine the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Weight: 10% Did not submit or incompletely determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Insufficiently determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Partially determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Satisfactorily determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. Thoroughly determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. 2. Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely explained how DC performed project planning and did not submit or incompletely analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release.  Insufficiently explained how DC performed project planning and insufficiently analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release.  Partially explained how DC performed project planning and partially analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release.  Satisfactorily explained how DC performed project planning and satisfactorily analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release.  Thoroughly explained how DC performed project planning and thoroughly analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release.  3. Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Weight: 15% Did not submit or incompletely identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and did not submit or incompletely explained how they overcame those challenges. Did not submit or incompletely gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Insufficiently identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and insufficiently explained how they overcame those challenges. Insufficiently gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Partially identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and partially explained how they overcame those challenges. Partially gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. Satisfactorily identified the challenges that DC .

1. Points: 100
Case Study 1: Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 60% F
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B
Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Determine the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC)
chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional
waterfall method.
Weight: 10%
Did not submit or incompletely determined the key reasons why
Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method
instead of a traditional waterfall method.
Insufficiently determined the key reasons why Deloitte
Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a
traditional waterfall method.
Partially determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting
(DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional
waterfall method.
Satisfactorily determined the key reasons why Deloitte
Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a
traditional waterfall method.
Thoroughly determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting

2. (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional
waterfall method.
2. Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its
effectiveness for later execution and product release.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely explained how DC performed
project planning and did not submit or incompletely analyzed its
effectiveness for later execution and product release.
Insufficiently explained how DC performed project planning
and insufficiently analyzed its effectiveness for later execution
and product release.
Partially explained how DC performed project planning and
partially analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and
product release.
Satisfactorily explained how DC performed project planning
and satisfactorily analyzed its effectiveness for later execution
and product release.
Thoroughly explained how DC performed project planning and
thoroughly analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and
product release.
3. Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project
phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an
opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role
in this process.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely identified the challenges that
DC encountered in each project phase and did not submit or
incompletely explained how they overcame those challenges.
Did not submit or incompletely gave an opinion on whether the
Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
Insufficiently identified the challenges that DC encountered in
each project phase and insufficiently explained how they
overcame those challenges. Insufficiently gave an opinion on
whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this
process.
Partially identified the challenges that DC encountered in each

3. project phase and partially explained how they overcame those
challenges. Partially gave an opinion on whether the Agile
concepts played an important role in this process.
Satisfactorily identified the challenges that DC encountered in
each project phase and satisfactorily explained how they
overcame those challenges. Satisfactorily gave an opinion on
whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this
process.
Thoroughly identified the challenges that DC encountered in
each project phase and thoroughly explained how they overcame
those challenges. Thoroughly gave an opinion on whether the
Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
4. Determine the techniques that DC used to monitor the project
progress and evaluate how it enabled the project success.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely determined the techniques that
DC used to monitor the project progress and did not submit or
incompletely evaluated how it enabled the project success.
Insufficiently determined the techniques that DC used to
monitor the project progress and insufficiently evaluated how it
enabled the project success.
Partially determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the
project progress and partially evaluated how it enabled the
project success.
Satisfactorily determined the techniques that DC used to
monitor the project progress and satisfactorily evaluated how it
enabled the project success.
Thoroughly determined the techniques that DC used to monitor
the project progress and thoroughly evaluated how it enabled
the project success.
5. Explain why DC did not use offshore resources and evaluate
whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse
workforce geographically and culturally.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely explained why DC did not use
offshore resources and did not submit or incompletely evaluated

4. whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse
workforce geographically and culturally.
Insufficiently explained why DC did not use offshore resources
and insufficiently evaluated whether the Agile method will work
in a project with diverse workforce geographically and
culturally.
Partially explained why DC did not use offshore resources and
partially evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a
project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally.
Satisfactorily explained why DC did not use offshore resources
and satisfactorily evaluated whether the Agile method will work
in a project with diverse workforce geographically and
culturally.
Thoroughly explained why DC did not use offshore resources
and thoroughly evaluated whether the Agile method will work
in a project with diverse workforce geographically and
culturally.
6. Speculate on the leadership roles needed if you were part of
the DC team.
Weight: 15%
Did not submit or incompletely speculated on the leadership
roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
Insufficiently speculated on the leadership roles needed if you
were part of the DC team.
Partially speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were
part of the DC team.
Satisfactorily speculated on the leadership roles needed if you
were part of the DC team.
Thoroughly speculated on the leadership roles needed if you
were part of the DC team.
7. 3 references
Weight: 5%
No references provided
Does not meet the required number of references; all references
poor quality choices.
Does not meet the required number of references; some

5. references poor quality choices.
Meets number of required references; all references high quality
choices.
Exceeds number of required references; all references high
quality choices.
8. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 10%
More than 8 errors present
7-8 errors present
5-6 errors present
3-4 errors present
0-2 errors present