1. REDUCE WASTE Campaign By Belkis Vasquez-McCall & Surbhi
Bhati
2. STORY TELLERSBelkis Vasquez-McCall Surbhi BhatiSenior
Product Owner/ Product Owner / Agile 2.o team Agile 2.0 team 1
3. Once upon a time in a far, faraway land... 2
4. there was a softwareorganization that wanted toimprove their
practices... 3
5. since there was a lot of troublein their software
developmentland ! 4
6. So they decided to start theirAGILE adoption ! 5
7. They worked hard to masterthe AGILE practices... 6
8. & as they practiced AGILE, theirdeliveries went smooth
and theirstakeholders were happy ! 7
9. But 5 years later, they becamecomplacent ! Toocomfortable
... not pushing barriers!! 8
10. So we decided to shakethings up ...(Agile 2.0 team) ...but
just a little ! 9
11. & there occurred a huge ... BRAINSTORM ! 10
12. And thus arrived ... 11
13. A challenge to tickle theirbrains, & ideate on
eliminatingwaste in ...TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION PROCESS Anything
else!! 19
14. IT had come to get the teams,find scope of improvement ...
& start asking WHY?? 12
15. So, IT went around talkingabout Lean & ReducingWaste
... 13
16. then teams asked ... WHAT IS WASTE ? 14
17. So IT said: WASTE is ... Defects that reach the business
Features that are not used Documents that are not referenced
Processes which do not add business value Communication overload
Anything that does not add real business value 15
18. This got the teams curious ...IT had got them thinking !
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19. How can we ...Improve our agility 2 weeksin our sprint
cycle?Shorten the 2 weeks 1feedback loop weekAdapt a continuous
Leanflow culture 17
20. IT created an application tofacilitate for people
submitideas ... 22
21. Idea Storm was a platform to ...Share ideas on waste
reduction Gain support for your idea Generate discussion to
encourage lean thinking 20
22. Each idea could bevoted up/downThe idea winningmaximum
votes wasto be rewarded!!Tool facilitateddiscussion on ideas
23
23. The Competition ... Lasted for 2 weeks Had different
categories for teams to ideate on Benefited from horizontal
marketing 21
24. As days passed, it grew BIGGER ...Day 1 : 3 ideas, 2
commentsDay 3 : 17 Ideas, 30+ commentsEnd of 1st week : 40
Ideas,50+ commentsEnd of 2nd week : 76 Ideasand we didnt count all
the comments! 24
25. & different ideas came in from alldirections ...
25
26. Like ... Reducing two weeks sprints to 1 week Automating
repetitive tasks like QA deployments, code integration Reducing
sprint ceremonies 26
27. Some of the ideas implementedwere ...Effective
communication1 week sprint modelAd-hoc and daily retrosShared
testing 30
28. Then, IT went on to showteams what a 1-week sprintwould
look like ... Assignment Create a poster on what it means to move
from a 2 weeks sprint to a one week sprint Acceptance Criteria
Teams of 1-5 people Posters to reach One-One team by 28-Dec-09,
3-00 pm IST Reviewers AGILE teams 27
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31. And so the Campaignachieved what it had set out to!Infused
new energy in projectteamsGot them to think lean anddevelop new
Agile habitsShortened the feedback cycle 31
32. 29
33. Moral of the Story !AGILE adoption is a continuous
journeyAlways think why youare doing what you aredoingAGILE lets
you writeyour own rules, makethe most of it! 32
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35. What we have achieved so farOrganizational Rhythm One - One
Challenge Consistency and Rhythm: Reduce waste campaign: Teams are
starting to use 90%+ of our teams are now a common tool for their
following one week sprints project management Teams deploy to
production All teams in a portfolio more frequently have their
sprint review Kicking-off Frictionless on the same day Deployments
initiative with Arch CoE Focusing on team reflection in August.stay
tune for moreApp Dev Staffing Sitting Together Staffing Model:
Co-locating the group/teams: 70% of the teams are intact Everyone
in the group sits on over last one year the same floor Avg. dev
team size 5+/-2 Sitting is Team-based 80% of dev teams staffed in
(every onsite team has a pairs team room) No dedicated Scrum Master
Feedback collected from assigned to team AppDev NYC to determine
whats next
