The Lean and Agile Way into the Cloud

BW3 Concurrent Session 11/7/2012 3:45 PM

"The Lean and Agile Way into the Cloud"

Presented by:

Yash Talreja The Technology Gurus

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Yash Talreja The Technology Gurus

A Silicon Valley-based independent technology consultant, Yash Talreja is an expert in lean cloud computing, and social and mobile commerce. Yash has more than eighteen years of experience in the software industry from small startups to large corporations including Amazon.com, Oracle, and PeopleSoft. He is the founder of Lean Agile Group, a non-profit professional organization with more than 5,000 lean/agile practitioners as members, and a member of the IEEE Consultant’s Network, Silicon Valley chapter. Yash blogs on lean cloud computing and mobile commerce (mobile-commerce.us). Thousands of technology professionals follow his Facebook page.

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The Lean and Agile Way into the Cloud

www.the‐tech‐gurus.com

Yash Talreja

What’s “Lean Agile”?

• A group of product development methodologiesmethodologies

• Iterative development with incremental planning, releases and validation

• Eliminate waste by only building features people Use / want

• Adaptive and collaborative product design


dapt e a d co abo at e p oduct des g• “Lean” part inspired by the lean movement

promoted by the “Toyota Way”

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Cloud Computing

• Use / provisioning of hardware and software as services over the Internetsoftware as services over the Internet

• User access applications through a browser

• Sharing compute resources enables on‐demand allocation


• Use as much (or as little) as you need• Pay as you go only for what you use

Why Lean Agile & Cloud Computing Go Well Together• Delivery of software features

th Cl d bl thover the Cloud enables the incremental release & validation

• the need of detailed up front planning is reduced because of: – On‐demand availability of


On demand availability of resources

– Pay as you go only for what you use model

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Case study 1: Large eCommerce Company

• Large eCommerce company b d i W hi t t tbased in Washington state

• Goal of the project: converting itself from Retailer to a platform serving sellers of all sizes

• Catching up with a large


Catching up with a large competitor which dominant in the target market

CS1 – Large eCommerce Company

• Project: Web application for Smaller sellers to enter their Smaller sellers to enter theirproducts details over the web

• Released 4 to 6 weeks • First releases to a few hundred select merchants

• Final release was to more than 16 000 ll


16,000 sellers • Incremental Design and extensive feedback

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CS1 Large eCommece Company (continued)

• Cloud Computing model of d li j f t idelivery a major success factor in adopting Agile development methodology

• Lean / Agile development aspects a major factor in not


p jonly catching up, but (arguably) gaining over the competitor

Case study 2 : MEC Communications

• Goal: Launch a branded instant messenger to American Idol Fansmessenger to American Idol Fans in 3 months!

• Use of Agile process with weekly development iterations and fortnightly releasesD li i Cl d C ti


• Delivery via Cloud Computing (Using Speedera)

• Close to a million downloads

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Case Study 3: A Vertical Social Network

• Startup Company, had raised 500k• Committed to launch in 6 months• Started on the wrong foot• Was using waterfall methodology• Planning to use its own hardware


and traditional licensed software• Project was wayoff track after first two months

CS3 Vertical Social Network (continued)

We were called in to “Fix” • Adopted Lean Agile methodology andAdopted Lean Agile methodology and Cloud Infrastructure

• One day training to the team• Nothing is Leaner than “Free”!

– Open source alternatives for software development stack

• Forced ranking of Feature


gprioritization – “High”, “Medium”, “Low” don’t work!

• Used PaaS/ IaaS (Platform and Infrastructure as a Service)

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Case Study 3‐ Results

‐ A GA of the public website ithi 4 th f b iwithin 4 months of being

engaged ‐ successfully able to use Agile methodologies with globally distributed development team


p‐ More than 150k left over which could be used for marketing

About Us• A boutique consulting company located in the heart of Silicon Valley

• Tie ups with:Tie ups with:– offshore development team in India– Nearshore development teams in Canada, Chile & Ukraine

• Custom Mobile application development

• Mobile Cloud


• Mobile Cloud• Lean Agile development • Email: yash@the‐tech‐gurus.com