Bridging the gap between your Agile Project organization and the traditional HR department

_________________________Thushara Wijewardena

CPO@ Exilesoft

Presented @ Agile2012- Bangalore

Production/Project organization

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http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/business/hrm/lesson/hrm1.htm

Case Study

Case Study: Agile adoption at Exilesoft

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

15 people 40 people More and more

Evolving with agility… D S

70 people

Organization culture was challenged

Control culture Collaboration culture

Competence cultureCultivation culture

Day to day functions were challenged

1.Beware of individual performance reviews 2.Pair-programming is a great way of recruiting

developers3. Certificates are not that important for software developers4. Shorter feedback loops than once a year feedback5. Job Descriptions may create confusion among the developers6. NO NO they don’t report to the scrum master…

Created disrespect

Effect:organization wide performance drop.

Everyone felt the “stress”

Looking at the organizational

picture

Fact finding & Route cause analysis

Common patterns and causes

Covered under: Section II The problem and

Section III The causes

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Findings- Isolation and lack of transparency- The meaning of “agile”- Requirements are thrown over the wall- Too much of working progress tasks- Lack of recognition and trust

Customer Project Organization

Human resource

Proposed Solution

Improve the knowledge of agile concepts among HR staff

Agile implementation

Observing the Results

Transition

Feasibility of implementing KANBAN over Scrum

Looking at Scrum

• Time boxing• Scheduled releases • Story point estimation• Sprint burn down • Team consistency

Looking at KANBAN

KANBAN wall

Backlog

Definition of “Done”

Done =

Complexities

We are no more a software factory

Today…

Before..

After..

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