Using Lean practices in Agile Fixed Bid project 17/02/2012

Santhana Krishnan

Agenda

Context / Introduction Plan Lean Practices Tracking Challenges Q&A

Context - Challenges One of the largest publishing houses

New digital interface should be ready before holiday

Fixed time (18 weeks) and Budget ($$$)

Loads of requirements (1800+ story points – rough size) but limited capacity (880 points)

Yet to be finalized integration system(s)

Context - Challenges

Time Capacity

Scope

Context - Challenges

DB

Plan

Plan

Lean Practices

Throughput

Waste

Reduce

Inventory

Lean Practices

Focus on throughput

• (focus on getting the story signed off)

Throughput

Lean Practices

Eliminate / reduce waste

• IPM X

• Bug tracking X

Waste

Lean Practices

Minimize inventory

• (Cumulative Flow Diagram)

Reduce

Inventory

Tracking

Tracking

Tracking

Lean Practices

Identify right metrics

• (Story rate - average story point per developer per day)

Tracking

Where is it useful?

?

IPM?