on the agile transformatiom ima a large complex globally distributed company

IN A LARGE-COMPLEX GLOBALLY DISTRIBUTED COMPANY

Greice Romangreice.roman@acad.pucrs.br

Sabrina Marczaksabrina.marczak@pucrs.br

Alessandra Dutraalessandra.dutra@pucrs.br

Rafael Prikladnickirafael.prikladnicki@pucrs.br

In our experimentation with Scrum (…)we found that small teams can beflexible and adaptable.

LINDA RIS ING AND NORMAN S. JANOFF

AG COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, 2000

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fifteen years go by...

Agile Conference ‘09

ESEM ‘13

Information and Software Technology ‘11

IBM Global Services ‘10

Addison-Wesley Professional ‘12

some practices of agile transformation

in small projects

how does the transformation occur

in largely-distributed projects?

To understand this question

we interviewed managers at ORG from the USA and from Brazil

projects are complexinterconnected and distributed

IT teams are globally distributedmainly in Latin America and in Asia

Waterfall-structured organizationan annual project roadmap

ORG background

We asked them about:

(1) The reasons to aiming to become agile

(2) Which steps have been taken so far

(3) Which concerns they have about the transformation

why Agile?1. the reasons

to deliver faster to the customer

to reduce the time window between

requesting and receiving

to reduce communication gaps

first steps2. the actions taken

Reorg

Training and Coaching

Pilot Projects

Mixed Methods: ScrumBan

Communities of Practice

Initial concerns3. the concerns

agile only in specific IT departments

customers still unaware of the agile initiative

complex software applications

legacy systems

global distribution of the teams

lack of documentation

Discussion

First Steps

Pilot projects was one of the successful factors at Gap

Training teams is an incisive step(new mind set, self-training, trial and error, changing priorities)

First Steps

At Primavera Systems is common the adoption

of mixed agile methods

CoPs was a successful practice in Ericsson

Concerns

Open issues:

complex ecosystem of applicationswe found challenges in a distributed environment and on a project with dependent projects

customer collaborationtopic of a research agenda for agile in large-scale

global distribution of the teams:not imply or affect the quality of working practices

old technologies and legacy systems:Inspect and Adapt and Go Slow to Go Fast

Concerns

agile transformation is not simple!mainly in complex cases

ORG is moving towards the same direction of most

successful transformation cases reported in literature!

we will interview professionals that have participated on a

transformation in large companies to identify good practices

our main work is to propose a guideline

for companies to acquire fluency in such setting

And now...

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Greice Romangreice.roman@acad.pucrs.br

Sabrina Marczaksabrina.marczak@pucrs.br

Alessandra Dutraalessandra.dutra@pucrs.br

Rafael Prikladnickirafael.prikladnicki@pucrs.br