"Powering your Software Development" presentation by Pedro Castro Henriques at Agile with TFS event, organized in partnership with Primavera and Microsoft

1. Agile Software Capacity with TFS

2. Pedro Castro Henriques
Strongstep
Powering your software development

3. Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Power of process
3. Primavera Challenge
4. TFS power
5. Process Power

4. About Pedro Castro Henriques
• Cofounder & CEO of Strongstep and consultant in
software engineer
• Worked in 10 European & African countries
• More then 18 years of experience
• Specialized in process, tools and organization
improvement in software development

5. Portfolio
Services
R&D&I
• Process Improvememt
• Training
• Certification
• Auditing
• Research
• Development
• Innovation

6. Some of our customers...

7. How to assure
the quality of
the developed
software?

8. The quality of a software
“The quality of a software
system is governed by the
quality of the process used
to develop and evolve it.”
- Watts Humphrey

9. Quality in the Organizations
Are your processes defined and consistently used?
Has your organization grown in maturity?
You spend more time on Innovation or on Rework?
“Oldest definition of insanity … doing the same thing over
and over again … and expecting a different result”

10. Techonology Enterprises…
have little or no work standards

11. Processes and Standards that help peopleProcesses and Standards that help people

12. Manage

13. Deliver

14. Continuously Improve

15. Specialized in: Software Quality Management; Process Improvement;
Certification

16. CMMI
Processes and continuous improvement methodology
for an organization

17. CMMI process areas
Process
Management
Organizational
Process Focus
Organizational
Process Definition
Organizational
Training
Organizational
Process Performance
Organizational
Performance
Management
Project
Management
Project Planning
Project Monitoring
and Control
Supplier Agreement
Management
Requirements
Management
Risk Management
Integrated Project
Management
Quantitative Project
Management
Engineering
Requirements
Definition
Technical Solution
Product Integration
Verification
Validation
Support
Configuration
Management
Process and Product
Quality Assurance
Measurement and
Analysis
Decision Analysis and
Resolution
Causal Analysis and
ResolutionLevel 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5

18. CMMI in the World
722
314
189
70 49 48 39 37 28 17
0
200
400
600
800
1000
China USA India Mexico Spain Korea,
Republic Of
Brazil Colombia Japan France
CMMI certifications in the World
Total

19. 25 CMMI in Portugal
Level 2
13 - 52%
Level 3
7 - 28%
Level 5
5 - 20%
Recognized certifications
Level 2 Level 3 Level 5

20. SCRUM

21. CMMI + SCRUM benefits
 Process alignment with business goals
 Agile requirements management & time to market
 Less rework
 Reduce costs
 Better communication and team organization
Best of both worlds

23. The challenge
• From waterfall to agile
• Keep running and focus on making money
• Team good practices shared with organization
• Empower and motivate people
Have a Powerful and very simple processes
CHANGE

24. Challenges felt with TFS & CMMI/SCRUM
• Define processes compliant with world best pratices – CMMI+SCRUM
• Need to adapt templates and workflows
• Train people in the process

25. Need for a tool
• Primavera had 7 tools supporting its software development
and maintenance
• Need to keep it all in 1tool
Tailored to Primavera processes & reality

26. Primavera roadmap
Workshops - business goals alignment
• Agile & CMMI workshops
… 2014 2015
Process Workshops
Certification
Challenges:
 People adaption
 Process adaption
 Tool Integration
Challenges:
 Fine-tuning
 Consolidation
 Maintain pace
Organizational restructure
Initial
Evaluation
Pilot
Rollout

27. The solution
12 SCRUM
Teams
Product
Conception
Release
Management
Software
Development
Requirements
Management
Configuration
Management
Audits
Metrics
Testing
TeamsProcesses Tools

28. Critical Sucess Factors
• A good tool
• Try to have the least manual tasks -> automation
• Do not reinvent the whell – look at the best and keep good practices
• Most of all ... first the process ... then the tools !

29. Conclusions
• CMMI is Agile – Best of both worlds!
• TFS powered integration in Primavera
• Simple processes empower people
and the organization!

30. Obrigado!