Agile days in

Cristian Giha

Application Developer

Victor Garcia

Application Developer

Agenda

Equifax SDC

• Who are we?

• What do we do?

About Agile…

• What is Agile?

• Software Project Delivery Syndromes

• Methodologies

Why Agile?

Agile In Action

• Roles, ceremonies and artifacts

• Tools and Frameworks

Company’s experiences

• Initial Agile Seed

• Distributed Teams

Who are we?

Who are we?

THE SDC IS AN EXTENSION OF THE CSE IN THE EQUIFAX CHILE OFFICE

CREATED IN 2009 AS A OFFSHORE CENTER FINANCED BY CORFO.

CURRENTLY HAS AROUND 130 PEOPLE IN 19 AGILE TEAMS

Who are we?

CORE SOFTWARE

ENGINEERING

CSE WAS FORMED WITH THE MISSION OF BUILDING

THOSE CORE ASSETS SO THEY WERE ABLE TO BE

GLOBALLY DEPLOYED

What do we do?

DATA FROM

THOUSAND OF

SUPPLIERS

ANALYTICAL TOOLS,

DATA TREATMENT AND

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

DECISIONING SERVICES

SCORING

MODELS AGGREGATED

REPORTS

What do we do?

OUR KEY AREAS DATA EXCHANGE

DECISIONING D&A TOOLS

IDENTITY &

FRAUD

Agile?

What is Agile anyways?

Agile is a response to change Characterized by quickness and ease of movement;

Nimble

Things change � Requirements change

� Needs change

� Priorities change

� Technology changes

� Fashion changes

Agile is not � Just a collection of practices

� A silver bullet

� A check list of things to do on every project

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Agile is a Human, Mindset, Philosophy : )

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Agile Methodologies

Why do we need Agile?

Software Project Delivery Syndromes

• We often deliver late

• Estimates are often inaccurate

• Team is swamped with work

• Working on too many things

• Priorities are unclear and everything is No.1

• Work is coming to the team from everywhere

• Team busy fixing defects instead of delivering value to Customer

• Unclear who’s working on what

• Inability to forecast release / milestones

• Dev and QA team acting as rivalries

• …list goes on and on…

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Why do we need Agile?

DOESN’T WORK FOR US ASSUME ALL ASPECTS CAN BE

PRIOR TO THE START OF THE

WORK

TRADITIONAL METHODOLOGY

Why do we need Agile?

WE WANT TO CREATE

STANDARD PLATFORMS BUT WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT

THE STANDARD IS

Why do we need Agile?

MUCH BIGGER THAN OUR DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY

Our demand of features is

Why do we need Agile?

AS MANY COMPANIES TODAY…

WE NEED

FASTER TIME TO MARKET

Quiz: Does the project follows Agile development process ? – True or False

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Agile in Action

• Developers

• Test Engineers

• Team Lead

• Product Owner

• Scrum Master

Roles Dev-Team

Developer

Test Engineer

Product Owner Scrum Master

Roles Dev-Team

• Pre Planning

• Sprint Planning

• Daily meeting (stand-up)

• Sprint Review

• Sprint Retrospective

Ceremonies -Sprint

Sprint Planning

Sprint Review

Daily meeting

Retrospective

Daily meeting

Daily meeting

Daily meeting

Team building

Architectural meeting

Three friends meeting

Pre planning

Pre demo

Ceremonies -Sprint

Ceremonies -Sprint Planning

• Different techniques

Stories and Estimations

Artifacts – Sprint Backlog

Ceremonies –Daily Meeting

Artifacts – Jira TaskBoard

Artifacts – Board

Ceremonies –Sprint Review

Ceremonies -Sprint Retrospective

Retrospective Board

SAFe

Team Layer

• SDC 5 years ago

• CEP • First Client

• Agile

• Continuos delivery

• Technology Stack

Experience & Transition

Our Agile Journey

ONE DEV TEAM

BOTTOM UP APPROACH

DURING 2009

USA CHILE

AGILE!

SDC LEVEL

LEANSIGHT TRAINED US ABOUT AGILE

DURING 2012

Our Agile Journey

IMPLEMENTATION OF SCALED

AGILE FRAMEWORK

SAFE

2014 AND 2015

Our Agile Journey

AGILE AT CORPORATE LEVEL

2015 - today

Our Agile Journey

Our Agile Journey

Distributed Team

• Face to Face communication • Facial Expression

• Body Language

• Intonation

• Words

“The best communication is face to face, with communications occurring through

facial expression, body language, intonation and words. When a white board is

thrown in and the teams work out design as a group, the communication bandwidth

absolutely sizzles.”

Ken Schwaber, author of The Enterprise and Scrum.

• Single Location teams

Distributed Team

Distributed Team

• 3 Simple Principles: • Autonomy

• Trust

• Ownership

• Use speaking protocols

• Trade off on who is leading the meetings

Working with Agile in a Distributed

Team Environment

In a distributed team

environment, de-Agile is mostly

about removing the sense of being distributed.

To play the roles of facilitator and

mentor at some point.

Distributed Team

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