The Journey of Team ADA to Agile

Thanh-Phuong Nguyen

@Vietsoftware International, 22-Jul-2015.

The Team Name has been changed to ADA

to protect Confidentiality

Ada Lovelace 1815 - 1852

Note: All pictures in this presentation are taken from the internet.

Agenda

• Agile

– Agile Manifesto

– Agile Culture

– Agile Practices

• Agile in Team ADA

– Issues with Agile Adoption

– Retrieved Value after Agile Transformation

– What should we do more

AGILE

Agile Manifesto

6

12 Agile Principles

7

Agile Culture

8

Agile Methodologies

9

AGILE IN ADA

Distributed Team

11

Language Barrier

12

Why Scrum?

Requested from the Customer

13

Adopting Scrum

14

But ...

15

Good with Scrum?

16

Issues

17

#WHAT HAPPENED?

SM could NOT see the Forest

19

Miscommunication

20

Inactive Team Members

21

Individual work

22

ACTIONS TAKEN?

A new Full Time SM

24

Verify WHAT the Listeners hear

25

Start with WHY

26

Create No Fear Environment

27

Build T-Workers

Dev

Test

28

Learn and Share Together

29

WHAT WE GET?

Happy Team

31

Improving Skills

32

Productivity and Quality

33

Customer Satisfaction

34

WHAT WE SHOULD DO MORE?

Increase our Velocity

36

Automated Testing

37

Your ideas?

38