Agile Executive Forum: O&B Adoption Story
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Orange & Bronze Software Labs transitioned to full agile methodologies after encountering significant project overruns and client dissatisfaction using a hybrid approach. Initially facing low awareness and acceptance of agile in the Philippines' IT industry, the company adopted time and material models for most projects and limited fixed bids to small scopes. The shift resulted in improved client relationships and long-term successes, indicating that fully embracing agile practices was beneficial.
Agile Executive Forum: O&B Adoption Story
- 1. Orange & Bronze: An adoption story Butch Landingin CTO, O&B Agile Executive Forum Hosted by Orange and Bronze Software Labs
- 2. Orange & Bronze: An adoption story
- 3. Orange & Bronze: An adoption story How we applied Agile Methodologies at O&B
- 4. Chaos Theory
- 5. Chaos Theory
- 6. Chaos Theory from Wikipedia: is a field of mathematics that studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the "butterfly effect".
- 7. Chaos Theory from Wikipedia: is a field of mathematics that studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the "butterfly effect".
- 8. Small differences in initial conditions (such as those due to rounding errors in numerical computation) yield widely diverging outcomes for chaotic systems, rendering long-term prediction impossible in general.
- 9. Two Stories
- 10. Two Stories Installing Oracle 9i on HP-UX
- 11. Two Stories Installing Oracle 9i on HP-UX
- 12. Fixing a bug
- 13. Two Stories Installing Oracle 9i on HP-UX
- 14. Fixing a bug
- 15. Software Development is FUNDAMENTALLY a CHAOTIC process.
- 16. The Story of Orange & Bronze
- 17. The Story of Orange & Bronze
- 18. The Story of Orange & Bronze
- 19. Agile Adoption in the Philippines (circa 2005)
- 20. Agile Adoption in the Philippines (circa 2005) LOW Awareness, and even much less Acceptance, in the LOCAL IT INDUSTRY
- 21. Agile Adoption in the Philippines (circa 2005) LOW Awareness, and even much less Acceptance, in the LOCAL IT INDUSTRY
- 22. Too new, untested, not trusted by the local IT community
- 23. Agile Adoption in the Philippines (circa 2005) LOW Awareness, and even much less Acceptance, in the LOCAL IT INDUSTRY
- 24. Too new, untested, not trusted by the local IT community
- 25. Most of local IT community was not even aware of the AGILE METHODOLOGIES
- 26. Agile Adoption in the Philippines (circa 2005) LOW Awareness, and even much less Acceptance, in the LOCAL IT INDUSTRY
- 27. Too new, untested, not trusted by the local IT community
- 28. Most of local IT community was not even aware of the AGILE METHODOLOGIES
- 29. Very hard to convince local IT community to use Time &Material (T&M) project models, very fixated on FIXED BID contracts...
- 30. Hybrid Approach
- 31. Hybrid Approach HALF-AGILE, HALF TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 32. Hybrid Approach HALF-AGILE, HALF TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 33. Agile team processes: iterative delivery, agile development practices like unit tests, pair programming, readiness to incorporate changes, etc.
- 34. Hybrid Approach HALF-AGILE, HALF TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT
- 35. Agile team processes: iterative delivery, agile development practices like unit tests, pair programming, readiness to incorporate changes, etc.
- 36. Traditional for client facing aspects: Fixed Bid, Fixed Scope (but not really), Milestone-based delivery and payment schemes...
- 37. Results
- 38. Results Cost and Schedule Overruns
- 39. Results Cost and Schedule Overruns Project A - 2 month estimate became 15 months
- 40. Results Cost and Schedule Overruns Project A - 2 month estimate became 15 months
- 41. Project B - 8 month estimate became 2 years
- 42. Results Cost and Schedule Overruns Project A - 2 month estimate became 15 months
- 43. Project B - 8 month estimate became 2 years Client dissatisfaction,
- 44. Results Cost and Schedule Overruns Project A - 2 month estimate became 15 months
- 45. Project B - 8 month estimate became 2 years Client dissatisfaction,
- 46. Team burnout,
- 47. Results Cost and Schedule Overruns Project A - 2 month estimate became 15 months
- 48. Project B - 8 month estimate became 2 years Client dissatisfaction,
- 49. Team burnout,
- 50. Financial Losses for O&B
- 51. Conclusion
- 53. Conclusion Hybrid Approach HALF-AGILE, HALF TRADITIONAL PROJECT MANAGEMENT IS A HALF-ASSED SOLUTION that doesn't work
- 54. What we did next
- 55. What we did next We adopted Agile in Full
- 56. What we did next We adopted Agile in Full Threw out Hybrid Approaches
- 57. What we did next We adopted Agile in Full Threw out Hybrid Approaches
- 58. Moving away from fixed bid projects
- 59. What we did next We adopted Agile in Full Threw out Hybrid Approaches
- 60. Moving away from fixed bid projects Fixed bid only for "small" projects
- 61. What we did next We adopted Agile in Full Threw out Hybrid Approaches
- 62. Moving away from fixed bid projects Fixed bid only for "small" projects Make sure customer has understood and agreed to an agile approach
- 63. Results
- 64. Results We found our biggest successes from those agile projects
- 65. Results We found our biggest successes from those agile projects 1st US-based outsourcing client lasted more than 2 years.
- 66. Results We found our biggest successes from those agile projects 1st US-based outsourcing client lasted more than 2 years.
- 67. Most of our projects are T&M Agile projects
- 68. Results We found our biggest successes from those agile projects 1st US-based outsourcing client lasted more than 2 years.
- 69. Most of our projects are T&M Agile projects with a small percentage of fixed bid projects that are small in scope...
- 70. Results We found our biggest successes from those agile projects 1st US-based outsourcing client lasted more than 2 years.
- 71. Most of our projects are T&M Agile projects with a small percentage of fixed bid projects that are small in scope... 100% of our long-term clients are referenceable
- 72. Questions?
- 73. About Orange and Bronze Software Labs Filipino software company specializing in Java technology
- 74. Consulting, outsourcing, and offshore product development services using Open Source technologies, with a specialization in the Spring and Grails frameworks
- 75. Enterprise solutions with Google enterprise products and business intelligence solutions with the Pentaho BI Suite
- 76. Offers Java, Agile and Android training courses www.orangeandbronze.com