Agilopolis Community Day 5

Posted Thu, 12/03/2009 - 23:50 by admin

Agilopolis Community is proud to invite you for the w Agilopolis Community Day 5, that will be held on 10.12 in Wrocław.
The details of location and exact schedule you will find in invitation that is availabel after registering through this website.

Meeting agenda:
Corporate Agile - on example of Scrum in Volvo IT by Tomasz Skawinski & Rafal Likitarczuk (Volvo)
Presentation will focus on Volvo IT adoption of SCRUM to corporate reality.
Constraints but also support coming from global organization will be
highlighted. Following content will be presented:

  • Short introduction to Volvo IT - to point out it is a corporation
  • Projects in Volvo - the reality for projects for the whole organization
  • Projects in Volvo IT - the approach for projects mandatory for IT part
  • Scrum support from organization - push approach
  • Scrum support from methodology - pull approach

Knowledge sharing - experience exchange by Tomasz Skawinski & Rafal Likitarczuk (Volvo)
Second part of the meeting will be focused on open discussion, to make a
comparison of the experiences. This will be a chance to share about practises
and ask some question.

Presenter: Tomasz Skawinski

Tomasz Skawiński is working on the position of Project Manager in Volvo IT in Poland. His 3 years experience as project manager is mostly focusing on IT projects related to software development, mainly in Document Management area.

He is actively supporting Agile approach, adapting all it's goodies to corporate conditions and using it for his projects.

Presenter: Rafal Likitarczuk

Rafał Likitarczuk is currently working as a Project Manager and Agile/Scrum coach in Volvo IT. He is responsible for Agile implementation within organization and support projects to adapt Scrum/XP methods.

Rafał is also Certified Scrum Master with more than 2 year experience on this area.

Interested? We are looking forward to see you on 10.12. To participate & see more details please register. Coffee and cookies granted (hopefully) ;)

Travel guidelines available at Google Maps:
http://mapy.google.pl/maps?q=51.12059,17.114682&num=1&t=h&sll=51.119741,...

Best regards,
Your Agilopolis Team

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Minutes of the meeting

by admin - 12/11/2009 - 02:43

Dear *,

Thanks for a great meeting and valuable discussion!
There was about 21 people present including 6 very happy employees of Volvo IT :).

Agenda with schedule was presented by Tomasz, however schedule was done in a little bit agile way: "Bedziemy mowili tak dlugi az sie skonczy..." - so standard situation in IT projects.

Volvo has quite standard PMI based process (IS-GDP) with well defined milestones but it is presented in very nice colors :). It is a little bit continiues process since end of one project is at the same time input for new one. Roots of the process are in production methodology. Milestone is approved by steering board, which is a surprise because in most processes milestone should be approved by project team not a steering board.

What was quite interesting, is the fact that volvo has realist planning, there are two separate phases: development and final development :D!

Volvo introduces scrum that maps to the above process, which means that between phases there is an iteration approach and agile elements. Agile is not a must but can be chosen by project manager as an offical methodology. Business is quite happy with it. There is fix time, fix costs and flexible scope. It requires quite a lot of trust between partners, it might be easier inside one group.
Introduction of agile was gradually, so first some practices were introduced and later on some more.

During the discussion, there was quite a nice feedack about one agile project in NSN, it was so beautfull and perfect that it was not possible to believe it. Due to that, next agilopolis will be lead by Kasia to discuss it a little bit more in details. Planning is done in relative way and it works perfectyl, backlog grooming is done by all teams together (or their representatives) and there is no 'wyscig zczurow'. Actually, it was not corporate agile but full blown and working agile, which is very rare. On the other hand, in volvo it is not yet fully developed but the main goal of introduction was to improve communication with business.

What was also interested that NSN process (very similar to process in Volvo) was in that one time very well separeated and without influence on the team...