Integrating Scrum with the Process Framework

at Yahoo! Europe

Alexandre Boutin

Karl Scotland

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Agenda

Yahoo! International

Process Framework

From Waterfall to Agile: The Journey

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EUROPE

NORTH AMERICAYahoo! Canada

YAHOO!U.S.A.

LATIN AMERICAYahoo! MexicoYahoo! Spanish

Yahoo!Spain

Yahoo! GermanyYahoo! FranceYahoo! Italy

Yahoo! UK & Ireland

Yahoo! NorwayYahoo! SwedenYahoo! Denmark

Yahoo! Australia& NZ

Yahoo! Asia

Yahoo! Japan

Yahoo! KoreaYahoo!Chinese

Yahoo! ChinaYahoo! TaiwanYahoo! Hong Kong

Yahoo!Singapore

ASIA PACIFIC

Yahoo! BrazilYahoo! Argentina

Yahoo! India

14 000 Employees

Yahoo! Global Markets

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Yahoo! Intl “Forces” – End 2005

• Business proximity

– 3 regions (EU, ASIA, EM)

– 10 main languages

• Standardisation

– Roles / Shared services

– Accountability

• Strategies

– For each role

• Issues– Reliability of projects

– Quality of deliveries

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Process Groups @ Yahoo! Intl

From

To

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Process Groups @ Yahoo! Intl

• One Global Strategic Group– Common Flexible Framework / Set of Guidelines

– Education & Coaching

– Agile/Scrum promotion and teaching

• One Local Group in each region– Definition of local practices based on cultural

habits and organization, in order to facilitate the buy-in by local team

– Implementation by education and training– Coaching by participating to projects– Evaluation of local practices, learning and

continuous improvement

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Challenges to move to Agile

• Differences between regions– Cultural specificities

– Scrum adoption speed

– Business organization

• Yahoo! International “Forces”– Geographic distribution

– Shared resources

– Strategies

• Global Product– High dependencies

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Agenda

Yahoo International

Process Framework

From Waterfall to Agile: The Journey

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Full Waterfall

YEEPDP 1.0 (Q2 06)

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Still Waterfall … But Simpler

EDP4EU 1.0 (Q4 06)

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Scrumerfall?

Scrum & EDP4EU (Q1 07)

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A More Open Framework (Q1 07)

EDP

KOC AC RCAC

PMEPMSPM

ARCHDEVSPM

PMEPMSPM

ARCHDEVSPM

Intl EDP 3.1 (Q

1 07)

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An Agile Implementation of the Framework in Europe

EU Agile EDP 3 (Q4 07)

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The Future

• Continue to inspect and adapt

• Explore checklists

– Pros and cons

– Implementations

• Quarterly cycles

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Yahoo! Experience

• PMO coaching rather than control

• Close collaboration between delivery teams and process group

• Inspect and adapt

• Build trust

• Organisational checkpoints

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• Q & A

Integrating Scrum with the Process Framework at Yahoo! Europe

Thank You!