AGILE CASELETS

Agile Practice

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Agile Product Development for Trizetto
8 Products
Product Scenario 500+ FTE
Distributed
40+ Scrum
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has been selected for a Health care Across
Teams, 8 ART
product development company, geographically distributed team spanning 3 Time zones
across 3 time zones.

Areas of Engagement
Business Imperatives
 Product Development  Scrum Masters, PMO
Overall cost reduction via offshoring  Architecture  Release Management
 Agile Coaching  Testing and Assurance
Structured Methodology facilitating Transparent
Reporting, Planning & Prioritization
Ensure all product teams are executing agile in a Technology & Tools
predictable manner
 HP Agile, ALM , Maven, JAVA,J2EE, Hibernate, JAVA Script,
Improve agile tool set and metrics/reporting JQuery, HTML5, Selenium , QTP , AngularJS, REST API,
ASP.NET.
Reduction in time to market via distributed agile
 Kanban and Lean models used at portfolio and program level

Key Differentiators Business Benefits

• Defined release planning guidelines related to consistent process and
outcomes Ensure Release Readiness is Implemented Across Portfolio
• Expanded rollout of WSJF to products
• Define & implement Agile productivity metrics for each team and product
• Coaches reinforced T3’s commitment to Agile Methods (Scrum, Kanban, et
al.) and clarify SAFe’s complementary position as repository of scaling best
practices, to be used as T3 deems appropriate
 Increase productivity through local execution and global
coordination and strategy
 Increase stakeholder satisfaction through principles of frequent
value delivery and collaboration
 Increase quality and improved timelines by adapting DevOps, and
Engineering Practices

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Agile transformation - Leading Global Airline
Agile Distributed
Client Situation Transformation
Consulting from
Across
Transformation of Siebel Loyalty (largest ever implementation) through
Agile Daikibo to replace old, archaic , fragmented but highly admired CXX to team level 2 Time zones
system in the world

Areas of Engagement
Business Imperatives
 Siebel Implementation  Quality Assurance and Testing
Improve release timeline to respond to market changes  Enterprise Architecture  Agile Coaching & Consulting
 User Interface Customization  Scrum Masters
350 Batch programs and 2.5 MN customer transactions daily

Replacement of thousands of interfaces, programs and Technology & Tools

reports
1000+ partners involved in the loyalty program  Siebel Loyalty, Rally, More than 20 major systems & 26 Clients
impacted
Minimal impact to BAU activities

Key Differentiators Business Benefits

 Increase in quality & agility - Close collaboration across business
• Tailored implementation of Agile Daikibo for the largest implementation of
and IT teams
Siebel Loyalty
 Increase in velocity - Development teams are co-located as a whole
• Mobility Solution
but distributed
• Multi-vendor situation led by Cognizant
 Involvement of end users: Demos not only to business team but
• Capacity and target Output based contracts also end customers helped improve the primary objective of
• Independent Quality Assurance program, i.e. user experience
 Reduced Total Cost of Ownership with drastic improvement in
quality and usage of agile principles

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Large Scale Agile Delivery for Swiss Bank
Client Situation Distributed
200+ FTE
Across
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has been selected to transform back 22 Scrum Teams
office operations for Investment Banking division of a major Swiss bank 4 Time zones
with a large geographically distributed team spanning across 3 continents
and 4 time zones.
Areas of Engagement
Business Imperatives
 Application Development  Scrum Masters, PMO
Overall cost reduction via offshoring  Architecture  Release Management

Structured Methodology facilitating Transparent  Agile Coaching  Testing and Assurance

Reporting, Planning & Prioritization

Partner with vendor who understands agile

Technology & Tools
Need of agile services across all areas of App Dev &  JIRA-Agile, TeamCity, Clover, Maven, JAVA – Drools, Ibatis,
Maintenance SDSS/JAP, Selenium
Reduction in time to market via distributed agile  Kanban and Lean models used at portfolio and program level

Key Differentiators Business Benefits

• Maximizing the value and reducing the risk due to highly engaged customer
 High Transparency for reporting of progress, Issues, Risks,
and frequent delivery of potential shippable increments
Assumptions at Team, Train, Program and portfolio level.
• By virtue of integrated program governance, release planning and a
 It is a multi-wave program where each wave rollout will cover
common “Agile Way of working” helped to have a “Virtual Unified Team”
for this engagement. regions of Singapore followed by Europe and US.

•  Better risk management and visibility due to agile based execution

The Scrum teams are divided on basis of Common Platform Team and
Region Team . As part of the backlog Common and Region changes are approach and dependency management tool
highlighted which the respective team work on and via continuous
integration showcase the end to end integrated demo and the end of the
sprint.

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