3. Silvana Wasitova, CSP
Agile Coach based in Switzerland
Scrum practitioner since 2005, waterfall before that
Worked in Canada, USA, UK, Germany, France, Switzerland
Private Swiss Bank
7. Scrum Adoption at Yahoo
• 2004: VP of Product Development authorized experiment with scrum
• 2005: Hired Senior Director of Agile Development
• 2008 status:
3 coaches, each coaching approx. 10 scrum teams/year
200 scrum teams world wide, total approx. 1500+ employees
• Results in 2008:
Average Team Velocity increase estimated at +35% / year,
in some cases 300% - 400%
Development cost reduction of over USD 1 million / year
ROI on transition and trainings about 100% in first year
Source: http://agilesoftwaredevelopment.com/blog/artem/lessons-yahoos-scrum-adoption
8. Salesforce.com - 2007
Source: http://www.slideshare.net/sgreene/salesforcecom-agile-transformation-agile-2007-conference
Down to 1 release/yr
Scrum adoption: 3 months
Results:
60+ Critical features delivered in < 9 months
“Idea to Release” avg. rate: 2.2 quarters
70% of “Top 10 Ideas” on track for delivery in 2007
12. Factors in Agile Transformation
• Company Size: larger are more complex, slower
• Company History: how has it worked so far?
• Company Culture: values innovation?
• Management Culture: Support? Control? Politics?
Leadership Commitment?
Willingness to adapt?
• Worker Culture: willingness to try?
• Market & Competition
13. Credit: James Shore
and Diana Larsen
• Fluency: unconscious
competence,
how you perform
under pressure.
• Fluency at team level,
since development is
a team effort
14. Truly agile companies:
• Define their own culture
• Solve their problems
• No cargo-culting
• People feel “inspired” and “motivated”,
e.g. hearing amazing things about Valve, Zappos,
Netflix, Facebook.
https://martinfowler.com/articles/agileFluency.htm
https://www.infoq.com/articles/agile-fluency-fit-purpose
https://vimeo.com/68327316
Fluency is how a team develops software when it’s under pressure. Anyone can follow a set of practices when given time to focus in a classroom; true fluency is a skilful, routine practice that persists when your mind is distracted with other things.
And when they learn about how much management stuff they might previously have considered inevitable simply doesn’t exist within those pioneer organizations
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-we-cannot-learn-damn-thing-from-semco-toyota-niels-pflaeging