Agile AdoptionG8way Health Project

Introduction

How the project was executed by the client The Agile Proposal The Agile implementation Google Doc Scrum Board Challenges with team Happy Team Happy Client

How the project was executed by the client Ad-hoc Tasks Tasks by emails Long calls to discuss a tasks E-mail was the way to log tasks progress Priority of task changes on every client call Nothing is time-boxed

The Agile Proposal

Agile Mentor, Team Lead and Client had a call Understands client requirement his business goals Mentor explained Different Agile framework Suggest the best framework suited for the project Plan the approach Takes customer’s buy in

The Agile implementation Not all client use Agile project management tool nor want to invest

unless show them the hands on benefit Wants to work with the existing tool they are working with A google Spread sheet Scrum / Kanban board is created Manual Reference linking is done to adopt Scrum / Kanban Identified team members for the roles (Scrum Master PO, Dev Team) Conducted all the ceremonies Visualized the artifacts on google Spread Sheet

Google Docs Scrum Board

Challenges with team Fails to identify the right velocity in the first few sprints Team gets panic on missing the sprint goal Sometime DSM gets converted to a technical discussion Client changes the priority in the middle of the sprint

Happy Team Task assignment got structured. Ability to track planned as well as Ad-hoc tasks Ability to measure the achievable tasks in a given

time. Ability to plan for future releases based on the

velocity achieved in previous sprints. Task clarity in terms of achievable objective,

complexity, time required. Helped in improving the efficiency of the team in

terms of execution and planning

Happy Client

"Overall very good, consistent support & reliable development, with strong management of IT development. Transition to Agile Development approach has been very helpful in quantifying how much we are able to achieve on a weekly basis to understand timelines on key deliverables."

-- Mark Hall