• Thomas Bookhamer, CSP / COACH,Thomas Bookhamer, CSP / COACH,• Tim Simmons, ACH Federal, Product OwnerTim Simmons, ACH Federal, Product Owner

Agile Coach - 2009Hyderabad, India

Case Study /Book.06.09

• Improve Communications• Implement “Scrum Station”• Distributed team training• Culture• Team Room / design / development / training

• Team training• Process improvement• Forming, storming, norming, performing

• Improved scrum processes / training

• Offshore Resourcing• ALM Training

• TFS• Artifacts

• Agile Training• “Agile Explained”• “Managing technical debt”• Team training• Executive training• Increase development productivity• Lower defects

Improve Communications

• Distributed team training• Co-location vs. distributed

• Culturally• Language / Culture study• Book study

• Technology• “Scrum Station”• Team room / design / development / training

Cultural Understanding STUDY

Communication / Existing Technology

Co-location experience

No Scrum Station yet

“New Scrum Station” (greatly improved communication with distributed USA teams)See slide deck 002TR, “Team Rooms” for details

Improve Team Collaboration

• Co-location experience• Hands on training

• Agile Scrum Process

• Planning sessions• Backlog planning• Sprint planning

• Daily scrums• Distributed vs. co-located

Product Owner Experience

• Team Evaluation• Co-location Experience• Building Relationships• Improving Communication

• Product awareness• Personal communication• Cultural awareness

Improving Communication / Team Collaboration

Daily Scrums / Distributed team Coaching (USA/India)

Process Training

Team Building

Amazing Food

Increased Productivity

• Sprint 12• 12 day Sprint

• 19 Stories (increase 5 stories)• 57 Story points! (increase 28 pts)

• Sprint 13• 10 Day Sprint

• 22 stories (increase 3 stories)• 89 story points! (increase 32 points)

Sprint 12 Burndown

ALM Training, TFS, Code Review, BVT

Sprint 12 Retrospective

• What did we do well?• What could we have done better?• Future action items?

• Let’s go see it in TFS… (another new tab)

Olive Company Training

• Agile Consulting• Olive Executives, Vijay, Sumeet, Veerappa • Anirudh “Rudy”

• Olive company training• “Agile Explained”• “Managing Technical Debt”

• Improving Offshore Resourcing• Recognizing, developing, matching, skill-sets• Cultural differences

Training Session One - “Agile Explained” (see slide deck 001AE)

Maturing the process….

Olive Executives & ThomasAgile Coaching & future offshore resourcing

Appreciation from the team & saying good bye

The appreciating their Agile Coach

Thank you everyone, for allowing us to come!

Olive ACH Federal 09 Team, Hyderabad, India

Kalyan Veena Santhosh

Madhavi SriramVishnu

VasanthaShaker

Are we home yet?