Tom Westfall In The Workplace: Case Study

Marianne Molberg has twenty plus years management experience, with over fifteen years of product development, program management, and operations management experience with company sizes from startup, mid-sized, to large multinationals. Marianne’s deep understanding of scaling agile software development, and product development, has enabled her to lead Program Management organizations with up to fifty globally distributed software development teams focusing across the full product lifecycle. Most recently, she has directed her energy towards building and scaling a decision-making and governance framework using total quality management, agile, and LEAN methodologies to link strategic planning and portfolio execution management for Pearson’s Global Product Organization.

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I started my second assignment at Comerica on their fraud trafficking team as a new agile tester. Being completely new to the company and to the process of the Agile Scrum methodology, a framework Comerica utilizes for their software development projects. Scrum is team based work broken down into increments of 2 weeks known as Sprints.

First, let’s take a look at Agile, in particular the role of scope. Several traditional software development models came about in the 1960s, such as incremental, spiral and waterfall modelling. Over time it was realized that the software development team did not realize all of the needs up front. Thus, the customer was was not delivered what was expected. It’s essential to have an outline of who, what, when and where but this is often a transforming list.

As DCHHS Director Zack Thompson met with his staff during an early Monday meeting, his phone vibrated rapidly across the maple painted conference table where several employees surrounded. After anxiously awaiting four years for this call, he cleared his throat and swiped his finger cross the answer button on his galaxy S4 touch screen cell phone. After a few greetings and a couple of head nods, Zack responded to the caller with an simple thank you, and then released the call. Looking around the table at his assistant directors with a smile on his face, stretched from ear to hear, Zack tells his staff in the meeting “Whatever problem we have today, put it off until tomorrow. We got it!”

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Over the last 13 years, since the publication of Agile Manifesto, Agile has become very popular and there has been a steady rise in the adoption of agile development methodologies resulting into an increased volume of successful projects and highly motivated and self-organized IT development teams.

They explained that Agile is a project management approach used to respond to unpredictable circumstances in a really efficient way. They talked about their Scrum meetings where they plan out their sprints and assign user stories which the developers work on. They also talked about daily standups in which everyone talks about what they worked on the previous day and what they are planning to work on that day. They explained how Sprints are just small cycles of 2-3 weeks which allow developers to work on incremental updates. These updates are really beneficial as if something breaks then it’s really easy to fix them as they are not as

Nowadays, the economy evolves rapidly and levels of competition force companies to adopt new approaches In order to keep up with market changes. Many large and medium scale companies have multiple projects and programs in progress, and they are using PMO as an essential part to apply to project management practices. Over time, many companies with long histories of successful PMO and project management practices may want to accelerate their project performance and adopt Agile as a new approach for their projects. As a result, this change can play an important role to raise different type of problems and difficulties between the existing PMO and Agile development team (Agile developers).

The principles of the new “Agile” Methodology emphasize breaking up the traditional long-term software development cycle into several smaller iterations (or releases) of the product within short timeframes. (Douglas & Tech Trends, Inc., 2006) “These principles spoke to me on a very fundamental level,” said Skinner. Realizing that the change in methodology would help his organization to better meet the organizational goals for Blue Cloud’s development as well as propel them strategically ahead of their competition, Mr. Skinner hired a group of external experts in the Agile Methodology to get the process going. The current development structure at Blue Cloud was a traditional development environment, so Mr. Skinner set up a meeting with the organization to introduce them to the new methodology. At this meeting, he introduced a group of skilled consultants in the new methodology that were to lead the implementation. Mr. Skinner knew that the proper management of the implementation of the new Agile Methodology was going to take program expertise and a lot of training for

Leverage the members of the pilot project as agile coaches and conduct workshops for teams that are new to agile

• Improve developer productivity • Put the most critical information at developers’ fingertips • Deliver great results with all your Agile projects

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Agile methodology practices adopted in the private sector produced a much higher rate of return on each project following Agile methodology (Vajre 2014, para. 6). Using Agile methodology development often helps determine early in the project if the project is worth pursuing and if the scope needs adjustment for a successful project conclusion (Elfanbaum 2014, para. 7). Agile methodology develops the most important parts of the project first so that the teams can make sure they are on target with the overall project goal (Elfanbaum 2014, para. 9). The Agile methodology will not prevent failure but will reduce the chances of failure. The reduction of risk in a project requires risk identification and risk mitigation techniques dealing with the risk (Heusser 2013, para. 6). The Healthcare.gov site appears to have followed a Waterfall Methodology approach by testing and then attempting to fix software defects without testing the rest of the system for additional problems. The Waterfall Methodology no longer works well in complex development cycles. More robust applications that need phase development with required regression testing along the way should require using the Agile methodology (Holler 2014, para. 5). One of the biggest obstacles to the government adopting the Agile methodology is an out of date procurement practice. To address the outdated system, the U.S. Digital Services (USDS)

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