1. 1 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Agile In Outsourced Environment – A Perspective Zaheer Abbas S. Contractor

2. 2 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Agenda Agile in IT Software Services Organization PUSH or PULL - Adoption Does it really gain by adopting Agile? Reasons Uncovered for Agile Transformation Practical Situations

3. 3 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Software IT Service Organizations Scenario Adoption of Agile Perceived not Beneficial in Software Business Services Portfolio ?? Varied Inflow of business services portfolio to cater to Varied business execution approach based on customer culture Varied business operations of customers to cater to

4. 4 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Agile Adoption - PUSH or PULL?? Best Practice Adoption through external PULL or internal PUSH ?? 2005 – 2008 70% 30% 2008 – 2010 60% 40% 2010 Onwards 50%

5. 5 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Does it Really Benefit by Adopting Agile? Business as usual by providing core delivery service irrespective of the execution mechanism! Adopting Agile is to align to customer demands and gain business! ARE WE MISSING THE BIG PICTURE??? NEED BASED Agile ADOPTION to PROACTIVE STRATEGIC Agile TRASFORMATION

6. 6 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Agile Adoption - Various Scenarios CUSTOMER PULL  Maturity of customer in Agile Adoption?  Highly Mature and requesting vendors to align to realized stated benefits of Agile  New Comers and requesting vendors to align without any commitment from them!  Maturity of customer in Agile Adoption?  Highly Mature and requesting vendors to align to realized stated benefits of Agile  New Comers and requesting vendors to align without any commitment from them! INTERNAL PUSH  Alignment of Internal Stakeholders  How does it help their topline or bottom line growth!  Does it matter if existing execution mechanism is already achieving high CSAT  Agile adoption translating all the benefits to customer, how does it benefit internal teams  Alignment of External Customers  Maturity of Customer in Agile adoption  Readiness to provide the given commitment from business and other stakeholders  Multi Vendor scenario  Alignment of Internal Stakeholders  How does it help their topline or bottom line growth!  Does it matter if existing execution mechanism is already achieving high CSAT  Agile adoption translating all the benefits to customer, how does it benefit internal teams  Alignment of External Customers  Maturity of Customer in Agile adoption  Readiness to provide the given commitment from business and other stakeholders  Multi Vendor scenario

7. 7 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Reasons Uncovered for Agile Transformation Move from Just Being Vendor to Client Partner Collaborative Approach, Increased Customer Confidence Early On Collaborative Approach, Increased Customer Confidence Early On Uncovering Technical and Business Risks Early On and Effective Risk Sharing Shift from T&M/FPP to Fixed Capacity/Out Come Based Value Driven Model Do it Right First Time[DRFT] : Sustained Quality & Minimized Overruns Engineering Rigor & Business Focus Practices

8. 8 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Situation 1 : Multi Vendor Scenario (Development) Master Backlog Master Backlog Vendor A Backlog Vendor B Backlog Vendor C Backlog Slicing of Backlog to minimize dependencies amongst team Consensus on Velocity based Pricing Schedule Integration amongst various modules and regression Participation as active strategist for the customer Consensus on Common Estimation Approach

9. 9 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Situation 2 : Multi Vendor Scenario (Development & Test) Master Backlog Dev. team Vendor Test team Vendor Dev Vendor: Hey Customer, Test team has to be co-located in Agile, I can take up the testing job also! Test Vendor: Hey Customer, I get the build on the last day, how do you expect signoff of the sprint on last day! Test Vendor: Hey Customer, Test team not involved on day to day basis with the Dev vendor, we do not have clarity Test Vendor: Code keeps on changing daily,& our defects considered as feedback until end of iteration! Only those feedback not address until end of sprint is considered defect, how do we measure our test effectiveness! Dev Vendor: Test team efforts should be part of the overall velocity of the team WHAT IF We have Separate UAT, Sys.Test, Ops, Release Management teams ???

10. 10 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Q & A Lets Share our thoughts!

11. 11 www.scrumin dia.in Date Name ScrumIndia.In Proprietary Information Zaheer Abbas S. Contractor zaheerabbas.contractor@wipro.com Sr. Manager – Agile COE