In our presentation we would like to share our experience in deploying Agile methods in the environment of large and geographically distributed projects, combining and balancing new approaches with legacy corporate processes and overcoming traditional, “legacy” process thinking. In particular we will cover the following aspects and challenges we faced on our way to the agile world:
- Fitting agile into the corporate product development framework (M-Gates)
- Product Owner vs. internal customer or manager
- Manager vs. Scrum Master
- Self-organizing teams vs. established organization structure
- Cross-functional teams vs. Roles
- Distributed teams
Author: Alexander Babkin
Manager of Quality Engineering team, Motorola Mobility St. Petersburg
Working for Motorola since 1999 Alexander was responsible for preparation of the company for assessments/appraisals against SW-CMM (Level 5 in 2001) and CMMI for Development (Level 5 in 2004). Over last couple of years Alexander has been involved in deployment of processes based on multiple quality and software engineering models, standards and methods (ISO9001, TL9000, Agile, Digital Six Sigma). Besides process improvement activities Alexander’s team is currently in charge of development of local business process automation tools, support of organization’s training program and coordination of R&D projects with St. Petersburg universities.
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