Improved agile practices, with teams detecting their own issues and resolving them.
The Challenge
Distributed across continents, 15 teams consisting of 150 people in a US-based photo products website with a development centre in India, needed to improve and consolidate their processes, normalizing them across teams.
The Intervention
Assessment and coaching of US and India based teams, setting up an improvement agenda for each team and monitoring progress of the improvement plans. The consultant also played the role of backup scrum master.
The Outcome
Improved agile practices, with teams detecting their own issues and resolving them, including:
Effectiveness of the daily stand-ups
Test automation
Success of daily builds
Planning accuracy
Interaction between US and Indian resources
Effectiveness of Agile PM tool usage
Self-organization capability of the teams
Role performance of the Scrum Masters and Product Owners
Achievement of sprint goals
Interaction across teams and awareness of each others’ activities and priorities
