1. Agile EVM-Points to Ponder
Devaraj Subramanian - Lead - Project Management
Pragati Panda - Lead - Project Management
Harish Arora - Lead - Project Management
Chaitanya Kotturu - Lead - Project Management
First American (India) Pvt. Ltd

2. Agenda Introduction to Agile Earned Value Management
Challenges in Agile Environments and Recommendations
Points to Ponder

3. Introduction to Agile Earned Value Management

4. Teams deliver-What next?
Is this Enough?
Teams deliver-What next?

5. Is this Enough?
A New Dimension..

6. A Deeper Insight- More involvement..
How about these?
A Deeper Insight- More involvement..

7. Challenges in Agile Environments and Recommendations

8. But then…Can we Challenges the Challenges?
Volatility in Iteration Scope impacting Earned Value
Metrics
Scenario 1
Scenario 2
Scenario 3
Scenario 4
Scenario 5
Velocity
Volatility
Earned Value

9. But then…Challenges n Recommendations
Inefficient Product Backlog management
Scenarios
Not All User Stories Sized
Dependency on 3rd Party
Good Capacity Utilization- Challenge with Requirements
Availability of PO
Root causes
Inadequate time in identifying user stories
Lack of product vision
Recommendations
Review product backlog regularly to exclude obsolete user stories so that impact on budget is predictable

10. But then…Challenges n Recommendations
Stage of Agile Adoption by teams
Scenarios
Newly formed team
Technical user stories not adding value
Root causes
Competent team not available to handle new projects
Recommendations
Analyze target time when Earned value would improve
Review budget projection

11. But then…Challenges n Recommendations
Changes in Team Composition
Scenarios
Team composition changes frequently
Root causes
New initiatives forcing movement of members
Recommendations
Improve resource planning to be cost effective
Dedicated team for first level analysis of new initiatives

12. But then…Challenges n Recommendations
Challenges w.r.t Technology and competency
Scenarios
Challenges in adopting new technology of the project
Root causes
Inadequate time for team due to Business requirements
Recommendations
Identify threshold when Technological proficiency can be achieved and corresponding trade-off w.r.t timeline, cost or both

13. Agile EVM Engine

14. Points to Ponder..

15. Takeaways
Agile EVM’s value addition to Burn down and Velocity charts- missing elements..
Is Agile EVM a simple and temporary alternative to Business value measurements?

16. References & Appendix

17. Authors’ Biographies
Devaraj Subramanian
M.B.A and B.E(Comp.sc) with 16 years of IT Industry and and joined First American in 2011.
holds PMP® and CSM® certifications.
Currently Lead Project management at First American India Pvt. Ltd.,
Played the roles of offshore Release Manager and SCRUM Master, Process Change Owner during transition of organization to Agile
Also part of First Aureate Toastmasters Club(First American’s Corporate Club) and was President of the same in 2016 
Pragati Panda
B.E(Electronics and Instrumentation) with 16 years of IT Industry and and joined First American in 2015.
Managing some of the high visible projects from various business divisions

18. Authors’ Biographies Cont..
Harish Arora
B.E, PGDBM with 14+ years of IT Industry and and joined First American in 2011.
holds PMP® and CSM® certifications.
Currently Lead Project management at First American India Pvt. Ltd.,
Chaitanya Kotturu
Have experience of 13.5 years of IT Industry and and joined First American in 2013.
playing the roles of Lead PMO (Overseeing the Agile Maturity Journey for Mortgage solutions) with responsibilities Release Manager and SCRUM Coach
Part of First Aureate Toastmasters Club(First American’s Corporate Club)

19. Thank You!!!