Ariel Schapiro
Agile PMO”improving projects health”
Context
Health Check measurement
process
Results & Conclusions
Q&A
Plan
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CONTEXT
Southworks.NET
ISO 9001:2000
x 4
Projects
Reference implementation applications
.NETTraining Kits
Hands on labsSaaS (S+S)
WCF
WFSilverlight
Identity Windows Azure
WPF
SCRUM-like Process
Iteration Backlog
Customer participation
Weekly meetings schedule
(2~3 months total duration)
TDD
Pair Programming
Continuous Improvement
HEALTH CHECKMEASUREMENT PROCESS
Anatomy of the process
Formal Process(ISO, CMMi)
Hard Indicators
Customer feedback
Retrospective Services
Hard IndicatorsTeam self assesment
based on thresholds
and backed up by evidence.
Hard Indicators
Hard Indicators
RetrospectiveServices
Retrospective Services
•Good…•Poor…•Consider…
Customer feedback
Customer feedback
Anatomy of the process
Formal Process(ISO, CMMi)
Hard Indicators
Customer feedback
Retrospective Services
RESULTS &CONCLUSIONS
Results
Age (weeks)
Results
Results
"The project map helped me to understand the global scope of the project and to know easily
what are we working on right now.“
“These assets really help me on planning ahead the testing process."
"Screencasts were and still are very useful for me to go over the progress made during the sprint.“
Conclusions
• Improvement because of:– Self measurement: reflecting– Osmotic communication (Alistair Cockburn) at a
company level• Scrum + engineering practices• Valuable initiatives imitation• Sharing + Reusability
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