PROJECT: REDESIGN OF A UK NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEBSITE.
Intervention: Project Manager and ScrumMaster of development team. Primary role was to deliver the solution by promoting and enabling Agile development. Focussed strongly on empowering the Product Owner whilst removing obstacles to enable a climate of efficient development and unhindered progress.
Results: Site was launched a day earlier than originally planned. Successful iterations followed which included mobile pages, blogs, commercial units and back end functionality.
PROJECT: INTRANET REPLACEMENT
Situation: The HR and Business Change Director of a large and established commercial Enterprise required commissioned flat designs to be implemented on a new content management system.
Intervention: Sprint planning, overall estimation of effort, strong engagement of Product Owner, frequent exposure of solution in test environments, coaching of HR department in engagement with Agile process.
Results: Solution went live as planned by fulfilling key User Stories. Solution continued to develop iteratively by allocating development resource to regular sprints.
PROJECT: CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (AGILE BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION)
Situation: After some time this project for a major UK media organisation had not yielded substantial or understandable business requirements. Business customers were disenchanted with their own progress despite intention to adopt Agile and Scrum artefacts. Clear tangible results were yet to be realised from investment in back filling project secondments.
Intervention: Introduced Agile and Scrum methods. Coached business project team and supplier in User Stories, Functional Breakdowns, Agile estimating and prioritisation. Requirements gathering enabled dovetail with parallel work streams of technical and solution architecture definition.
Results: Over five hundred Agile user stories produced within a structured business architecture framework. The business gained a set of detailed yet clearly understandable requirements that they believed in, upon which solutions were designed and third party supplier contracts / commercials negotiated.