1. What and What not Portfolio Lead Retrospects Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah Tata Consultancy Services

2. Agenda Context Background Responsibilities Challenges and Success Mantras People Impact of Transformation Stakeholder management Close out 5/11/2014Scrum Gathering India 2014

3. Team structure ~30 concurrent projects 200 team members 6 program groups Flat reporting structure 3 Delivery owners 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

4. We indulge in/ what defines us Open source technologies Enterprise softwares Data intensive apps Wide technology footprint Practicing Agile for 8 years 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

5. With Power comes Responsibilties Staffing Budgeting Pipeline Management Organizational Rhythm 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

6. There is no free lunch People issues High impact and visibility vs low impact n visibility Career path -> only 3 scrum roles Mentoring, competency building Different maturity levels across projects Churn in team members 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

7. Enablers One click deployments Frequent releases Support team involvement Knowledge retention Support onboarding Bi-weekly meeting of dev support and sponsors 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

8. Elephants and cheetahs in the room Oracle eBS Impact of initiatives by other portfolios Project priorities Non agile projects Vendor dependencies Availability of environments 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

9. Stakeholder Management Multiple sponsors Roadmap Priorities Varied styles of team interactions Consistency of processes Variation in delivery quality Involved vs soft sponsors 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

10. Success mantras Project mappings to quadrants Complexity, sponsor grading, duration, team maturity Weekly sponsor calls Deep Involvement with teams Technology evaluations Defining roadmap 5/11/2014 Scrum Gathering India 2014 Yashasree Barve & Dipen Shah

11. Happy to take Questions Hope This Session Helps! Thank you 5/11/2014Scrum Gathering India 2014 ?