Agile NZ The CallPlus Agile Story
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The document discusses CallPlus' journey to adopting the Agile development methodology of Scrum. It describes their initial impressions of Agile and forming a Scrum development team. With executive approval, they attempted their first Scrum but needed professional help. After investing in training and coaching, they started having success with Scrum by completing 100% of their sprint goals. The document attributes their Scrum success to having an open mindset, willingness to learn from mistakes, support from business leaders, and engaged developers.
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Agile NZ The CallPlus Agile Story
- 1. The CallPlus Click to edit style Agile Journey Click to edit Master subtitle style Bernard O’Leary, Applications Development Manager.
- 2. Why Did Agile Succeed at CallPlus…
- 4. Why Agile? • Initial impressions of Agile • The CallPlus Development Team • Revisiting Agile, and the Scrum “Formula” • Executive approval • And we’re away…
- 5. First Attempt at Scrum…
- 7. We needed professional help
- 8. Bill of materials • Post-It notes. • Whiteboard & markers. • Created spreadsheet templates for: – Product Backlog. – Sprint Backlog. • Standard directory structure, Sprint output. • Standard spreadsheet versioning. • Pivot charts, post-Sprint analysis/reporting. • KISS!
- 10. Success!
- 11. It Wasn’t Easy
- 12. Agile-o-meter
- 13. Breakthrough – 100% Sprints!!
- 14. Evidence…
- 15. Agile-o-meter
- 18. Scrum Worked at Worked Because… • We had a “blank canvas”. • We were willing to “give it a go” - risk failure. • We do/did research and invested in training. • We recognised the benefits of coaching. • We had the buy-in of the business. • Our developers are/were keen. • We had a monumental whiteboard.
- 19. Useful Reading
- 20. Agile-o-meter