2. The best of creative, digital,
and management consulting.
All under one roof.
3. Founded
in 2002 and
headquartered
in McLean, VA
Flagship US
subsidiary of
AUSY
$90M+
revenue
in 2014
600
Employees
9 offices
in the
United States
Average 30%
year-over-year
growth
4. Operate, Learn & ProtectCustomer Transactions
& Interactions
Customer Engagement
& Acquisition
What Our Customers Do
5. Digital Experience
Create engaging online
experiences that extend the
reach of your customers
Enterprise Technology
Integrate and build complex applications
using Agile methodologies
Business
Transformation
Achieve organizational efficiency with solid
business processes, IT security, and project
management practices
We are a
Business
Acceleration
Consultancy
7. An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
Agenda
8. Numbers,
Manifestos,
and Benefits
— Oh My!
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
9. Since 2001, Agile adoption has soared from
1% to 88%
of software developers using the methodology.
You Have To Pave The Way For Success!
10. Agile Manifesto
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
Individuals and Interactions over
Processes and Tools
Working Software over
Comprehensive Documentation
Customer Collaboration over
Contract Negotiation
Responding to Change over
Following a Plan
11. AGILE Benefits
Employee Engagement
Productivity
Project Success
Improved Development Cost
Speed To Market
IT & Business Alignment
Project Visibility
Stakeholder Satisfaction
Quality
Decreased Defects
+10%
+16%
+28%
+32%
+37%
+39%
+42%
+47%
+63%
+70%
+568%
Value Delivered Through Features
12. What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
Thinking About Agile?
Tried Agile And Struggled?
What Do You Feel Are The Biggest
Hurdles To Overcome
13. AGILE: Common Roadblocks
Do any of these sound familiar?
“Normal” Metrics Audit Documentation
Role UncertaintyDecision Making
PMO
Communication
14. Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Pave The Way To Success
Work With The Doubters To
Overcome Concerns
Get People Excited
Be Transparent
15. Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Start Thinking About
Project Team Stake
Holders
Process
Communication
Goal
Champion Metrics Success
16. Time to
Take Action!
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
17. Best Practices
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Start Small
Organize small,
dedicated teams
focused on delivery
1
Product Management
Make sure you have a dedicated
person to translate business to IT
2
Common Vision
Create a common vision
and charter for shared
expectations
3
Product Backlog
Build out a backlog that is at
least 3-4 weeks of effort
4
Transparency
Be transparent in your
process—you’ll likely start
on red and move to green.
5
Empowered Team
Forget Command and Control.
Give the team the ability to
determine what’s best
6
18. Common Attributes
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Focus on the Team
The right team members in the right
roles focusing on important items.
Team members should be positive,
have flexible skillsets and thrive on
challenge and change.
Create a Cultural Bubble
Create a “safe” place for the team to
operate. Separate but don’t isolate!
Incentivize Behaviors
Think about success differently.
Incentivize innovation and
incremental change
Enhance Communication
Take transparency to a new level.
Encourage interactions, post results
and promote accountability
Learn, Fail, Learn Again
Allow the team to learn and try new
things. Failure is ok. We learn fastest
from failure and Agile practices
encourage adaptation.
Improve
Rinse, repeat. Look at what’s
working and what’s not and allow
the team room to continuously
improve and adapt.
19. So Many Options!
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
20. Handy Dandy Toolbox
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Agile ALM Dashboards
Automated
Testing
Continuous
Integration
XP TDD
Choose an Application
Lifecycle Management tool
that can create the metrics
you need AND is suitable for
your Agile teams
Pull the data from your ALM
and create visual metrics
dashboards for your
stakeholders
Automate your testing. Unit,
integration, and system
testing can and should be
automated.
Integrate your code
frequently. At least daily to
ensure functionality is stable
and quality is high.
Extreme Programming.
Multiple practices to increase
efficiency and collaboration
during development.
Test Driven Development.
Test first mentality. Write the
test then write the code to
pass the test.
22. Now What
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Reflect
Retrospective with stakeholders,
management, and impacted groups.
Make sure you are all still on the
same page with where this is headed
Expand The Bubble
Expand the boundaries of the culture
bubble. Get more people involved in
the Agile process
Scaling
How big is it going to be? There are
multiple scaling options to choose
from. Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, DAD,
Nexus
Project / Teams
Got the scaling framework figured
out? Make sure you have plenty of
motivated people to be successful
Budgeting
Start socializing Lean Budgeting.
Budget a product not individual
projects.
Improve
Rinse, repeat. Look at what’s working
and what’s not.
Kaizen mindset!
23. New CHALLENGES
Going Forward From Here
Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
METRICS
Everyone comfortable with the Agile
reporting metrics? Work to keep only
what is needed.
Audit
How are your Auditors feeling about
all this. Work with them.
Keep them involved.
Process
Starting small keeps the process at a
micro level. Is everything ready for the
macrocosm?
Communication
More lines of communication for each
leap towards Enterprise Agile.
Infrastructure
Do you have the back end systems in
place, are your Agents getting trained
on the new features? Are your
environments configured and stable?
Technical Debt
How Much do you owe!
24. Case Studies
An Agile Primer
What is Stopping You?
Paving the Way
Getting Started
Tools; Frameworks; Methods
Going Forward From Here We have worked with
some of the largest
companies in the nation.
25. Top 10 National Bank/Credit Card
Solution
Provide Agile Pod teams using value-based pricing.
Work within clients’ Agile framework (directly with Product Owners) to
groom and prioritize backlog.
Deliver 5-6 Scrum Teams annually (35+)
Problem
Mature Agile financial services organization needed capacity for 6-24 months.
Benefit
Achieve high productivity in short periods of time.
Flexibility to rapidly expand and get new products to market faster
26. Major Energy Provider
Solution
Deployed Scrum team to manage, run, and develop an integrated
solution.
Developed and managed evolving product backlog based off
stakeholder feedback.
Problem
Sales personnel not able to use complex back-end systems.
Benefit
Successfully deployed a mobile friendly, externally available web
application on time and below budget.
Coached the organization on Agile best practices
27. Global Insurance Company
Solution
Deployed Scrum team to provide additional velocity.
Independently managed Product Backlog while soliciting needs of
stakeholders.
Problem
Needed additional capacity for rapidly growing product backlog (Scrum).
Benefit
Refactored a major feature of the system to ensure application’s future
scalability
Trained and coached the client on Agile scaling philosophies.
28. Largest U.S. News Publisher
Solution
Digital Product Design team embedded with the client’s Product Owner.
User-centered design process to ensure quality.
Problem
Needed to meet a critical deadline but lacked the necessary Product
Development bandwidth.
Benefit
Concepted, designed and developed complex web-based membership
service in
just 5 months.
29. Global Media Non-Profit
Solution
Enterprise Scrum Team supports 7 overlapping digital
products/services.
Problem
Needed additional capacity for rapidly growing product backlog (Scrum).
Benefit
Transparency of progress with client through demos and standup
meetings.
Average of 8 production deployments per mo. (vs. an average of 2 from
other teams).
Cost determined by value provided.
34. A New Focus
on Quality
“Culture of Excellence”
social integration
Added layer of governance,
reporting, and process controls
Outsourced Onshore
Development
(scale/cost savings)
Agile Methods
(Speed/Quality)
+
35. Benefits Of
an Onshore
Agile Model Get More, Faster
Be Closer To Your Development Team
Flexible Development Capacity
Plug our team into your
Product Development Lifecycle
We’ll get your strategic products
to market faster, better
Centrally-located development
centers or on-site teams
Guaranteed Delivery
Shared delivery risk and
guaranteed quality with a
proven governance framework
We Call This
“AGILENOW ”
36. Talent is Tight Efficiency Challenges
Marketing, IT & Product
are misaligned
The product is complex
Quality is Lacking
Critical deadlines are missed
Cost-Quality-Speed equation is
off balance
Agile adoption is floundering
You need more
development resources
IT talent is difficult to
find/retain
Offshore is not a fit
Customer demands are not
being met
There are 3 primary use cases for
considering AgileNowAGILENOW
TM
When to consider
37. Celerity’s AGILENOW Approach
Assess Development
Environment
Design Engagement
Model
Select Teams & Skill Sets Select Work
Location(s)*
Design Governance &
Reporting Standards
Monitor Continuous
Improvement Plans
Manage Development
& Testing Process
Manage Scope/Backlog
*Location Options: Celerity on-shore delivery center, customer site, or a combination of the two.
Celerity Customer
38. Team Structure
TEAM 1:
Senior .Net Developer
.Net Developer
QA Tester
TEAM 2:
Senior .Net Developer
.NET Developer
QA Tester (Selenium)
Business Analyst/Proxy Product Owner
Scrum Master
Delivery Director
10 HOURS/SPRINT SME SUPPORT
(Architect, Art Director, Scrum Coach, UX, Content
Strategist, Process)
39. Approach will focus on quick
response and build to demand
Engagement
Approach
Kickoff Run
Manage
Align
Evaluate
Operate
Begin Execution
Develop
Deliver
Onboarding
Gather Requirements
Establish Processes
42. Pre-Sprint
Post Sprint
Sprint Review, Demos
Retrospectives
Full functional & automated
regression testing
During Sprint
Just in Time Reviews, “Fail Forward Fast”
Automated Unit and Integration Testing
Continuous Integration
User Story Refinement
Acceptance Criteria
Definition of Done
Non-Functional Requirements
Scrum Team
Level Quality
Control
43. Pre-Sprint
Post Sprint
Full Feature Sprint Review, Demos
and Sign Off
Retrospectives
Shippable Product Increment
During Sprint
Just in Time Review, “ Fail Forward Fast”
UX/BA Forward Thinking
Risk/Implementation Elevation Plan
ALM tool to show real-time progress
UX visuals and wireframes
Prioritization (User Story & Features)
Acceptance Criteria
Sprint backlog is sized and closed
Management
Change At
Scrum Team
Level