XP Day 2009 (London) - From Cmm Iand Isolation To Scrum Agile Lean And Collaboration Xpday London...

December 09, © 2009 BestBrains, Mads Troels Hansen

From CMMI and Isolation to Scrum,

Agile, Lean, XP and Collaboration

Mads.Troels.Hansen@BestBrains.dk

XPDays London, December 8th 2009

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December 09, © 2009 BestBrains, Mads Troels Hansen

My background• Mads Troels Hansen - BestBrains

Agile and Lean Coach, Management Consultant

• Development Director at Omada

7 different nationalities, products, projects and support, 4

teams

• Development Director, co-founder at SoftwarePeople

Products, projects and hosting, 6 teams

Offshore in Bangladesh: SoftwarePeople Ltd, 25+ people

• Development Manager at NetPeople

Part of PeopleGroup with 15+ nationalities, 2 teams

• IT Director at PeopleGroup

Offshore graphical production in Bangladesh.

Also experience as developer, architect, project manager.

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• Agile team

– Co-located, face-to-face collaboration

– Task board on the wall3

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• 5-6 time zones between Denmark and

Bangladesh

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• Building relations and simulating distributed

work

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• CMMI and having the process as a goal

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• Having the process as a tool to deliver business

value as a goal.

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• Structure and fast exposure of problems

• Establish Flow

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• Rhythm and visibility

• Team heartbeat

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• Technical Infrastructure

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• Where is the bottleneck?

• Product Owner and queues

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• Shared Product Vision

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• Focus on Domain Knowledge

• What you don’t know you don’t know

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• Identifying problems and finding the root cause

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• Architecture collaboration

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• Global teams

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• Global teams and virtual task boards

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• Global reviews

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• Product Owner as part of the R&D team

• The bottleneck moved again

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• Moving people between Denmark and

Bangladesh

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• Global teams with shared commitment

• High productivity

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Thank youMads.Troels.Hansen@bestbrains.dk

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People don’t resist

change, they resist being changed.

- Peter Scholtes

@MadsTH

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