How we were building Agile in Enterprise with aggressive team growth

Anton Vidishchev

About Me

Program Manager at EDGAR Online, an R. R. Donnelley company

Speaker

Azure MVP

Geek

What’s the story about?

Back in July, 20123 nice guys were hired to work on a promising cloud project

Today we’re multi-location account with 85 folks in Odessa & Kiev for Fortune 500 Company

We’re practicing SCRUM for delivery teams

And the story is about how we built that

So, we started to work

Let’s do it Agile!

Wait a second…

And it appeared that a project is different

You are here

And even more different after acquisition

Somewhere here?

With a lot of inhabitants

Developers

Business

ITG

DBAs

QAs

Operations

Managers

Old style habits

Build credit of trust

Then, explore the outer space

Find responsible people, build connections

Find who is really helpful

Help understanding the responsibilitiesfrom small to bigger extent

Solve problems one by one

Focusing on everything does not lead you to result

One small achievement is better than a 100 ideas

First achievement

Developers QAs

+

Second achievement

DevelopersQAs Operations

+ +

It works but takes time

Feeling of control is more important than control itself for management

Keep good habits, remove bad ones

Sell, do not insist

Find what values for management

Reality

MATTERS: Credit of trust

Expectations

Team spirit

Rapid problem solving

MAY SUFFER: Strict methodology following

Sprint backlog

Vision

We’re hiring!

Apply to join the Starfleet!

Hiring!

A dozen of recruiters is hiring 30 people in two months

Culture

Culture is hesitating significantly on explosive growth

It is extremely important to keep the chemistry

Key people are key helpers

Additional ceremonies are required

I prefer including an elder for a couple of sprints

Team now

Field of common sense

Field of common sense

Management is needed