November 2017 Meetup!
Thursday 9 November 2017
This event has finished.
Started 19:00 PM
Finished 21:00 PM
Organized by Agile Connect Lisbon
Venue: KWAN
Address: Avenida Duque Ávila 46 - 3A
Lisboa
About this event
Agenda:
• 19h — Talk “Tales from the Trenches – Leveraging Agile on Fixed Fee Projects” by Marco Silva (Digital Advisor @ Microsoft)
Description: I’ll try to share my experiences on the last 9 years delivering various waves of 2 very large projects, for 2 very big customers of Microsoft Consulting Services, on 2 different teams I’ve worked and lead. I would like to share the mistakes we made, our wins and how we leveraged Agile methodologies to deliver on time and on budget projects that were scoped and planed as fixed fee, with all iterations built on top of a Waterfall model, and as most projects, with a very tight schedule.As you may know Agile methodologies like SCRUM, XP, KANBAN are most commonly used on Time & Materials type of projects where the Stakeholders control a budget (time and/or money) and decide the best way to use that budget on each iteration. In the case of Fixed Fee the scope of the project is set at the start of the project and now the team has to deliver on time and on budget all the features defined in the scope.On top of that Microsoft Consulting Services at the time had a very strict delivery framework built on top of a waterfall model… So we had to adapt and build a agile framework that would optimize the team’s performance and would deliver all the milestones that were set with the stakeholders and project management team. We learned a lot from these projects: the value of a strongly committed teams, the price of wasteful processes, the value of rapidly adapt and facilitating change and, most importantly, that what works now may not be so on the next iteration. We want to share all these lessons and practical examples that we’ve lived and learned from.
• 20h — Open Space Discussions
• 21h — Finish
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