From 0 to 120 Persons in 12 Months - Agile Transition in the Energy Sector (Agilia Conference 2014)

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Lessons I Learned from an Agile

Transition in the Energy Sector

From 0 to 120 Persons in 12 Months

Stephanie Gasche

Who am I?⟩ Management Consultant at Boris Gloger⟩ Studied English, History and

International Business Management in the UK and France

⟩ Assists Agile Organisations and Scrum-Team members during the change

⟩ Founded her own start-up www.fleissigebiene.com in 2014

⟩ Blogs about Agility at http://borisgloger.com/author/stephanie-gasche/

Welcome to the Energy Sector

One group...⟩ Revenue: ~8 billion (2012)⟩ Profit: ~140 million (2012)

...but three companies involved: business, product management and IT services

Welcome to the Energy Sector

Our client: product management company

The product: SAP-based internal accounting system

The problem: “requirement jam“

Suit up. We want the full-on Agile transition.

Step #1: Transition Team

John P. Kotter Leading Change“Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition“

⟩ Who? Management ⟩ What? Get the organisation ready for the

transition⟩ How? Have you heard of Scrum…

October 2012

Step #2: Make it or break it

Turning the 2 most different and

most delicate projects into

2 Scrum-Teams

October 2012

Step #3: Try something different

Put people from 2 different departments

into 1 cross-functional Scrum-

Team

January 2013

Step #4: Scaling Scrum

⟩ Team re-shuffle April 2013

ScrumMaster Team

⟩ Attempt #1: loose coordination⟩ Attempt #2: Sprints⟩ Attempt #3: topic-related carers

April 2013

Product Owner Team

⟩ Two Domain Product Owners⟩ 1 Company Product Owner⟩ Regular synchronisation

April 2013

...in the meantime...Info-Events

Sprint-Party

ImpedimentParty

Introduction of KPIs

Scrum Street

Step #5: Transition Team

2.0

⟩ 4 areas of specialisation

⟩ Mentoring for Scrum-Teams

June 2013

Step #6: Scaling Scrum even further

September 2013September 2013

Lessons Learned

⟩ Follow John P. Kotter‘s 8 Critical Steps to Success more accurately

⟩ Get everyone on-board from day one

⟩ Management should live Scrum⟩ Get hired by your real client⟩ Transparency⟩ Introduce KPIs at the very

beginning⟩ Adapt your pace to the company

Lessons I Learned from an Agile

Transition in the Energy Sector

From 0 to 120 Persons in 12 Months

Stephanie Gasche

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