Title: From CMMI and Isolation to Scrum, Agile, Lean and Collaboration
This experience report will also be presented at Agile 2009 on August 24th.
Submitter: Mads Troels Hansen
Type: Experience report
Duration: 60 minutes
Abstract:
This is a journey starting in 2005 when establishing a new software company in Bangladesh 7000 km away from Denmark. Hiring 20 people in one week in Bangladesh and start using CMMI processes to integrate development in Denmark and Bangladesh. After some challenging time aborting the CMMI project and switching back to agile and lean techniques to make it work. Experience from implementing global big bang Scrum and building a kaizen culture. From long running projects, technical dept and integration nightmares to small batches, continuous integration and faster delivery of business value.
Learning outcomes:
- How we moved from blaming to collaboration and global product ownership.
- How to use retrospectives to build a global collaboration culture
- The efficient development infrastructure and why it is extra important for global agile development
- How technical depth stated growing and then was removed with refactoring and agile practices
- How the organization of teams was continuously improved and the impact on culture, collaboration and respect.
- Challenges by integrating product management and customers in a distributed setup
- How cross functional teams can be global teams
Agenda:
05 min: How to start up with a new company on the other side of the world
05 min: The first 6 months with CMMI focus and different challenges
10 min: Initial big bang Scrum implementation with a global agile management structure, rhythms and improving activities
10 min: Later Scrum implementing and different challenges
15 min: Global Scrum teams and collaboration
10 min: Key learning’s on this journey and where is the company today?
05 min: Q&A
This experience report will be a slide presentation with a lot of pictures supported by a timeline on a large poster marked with the key activities for the journey.
