Robotic Warehouses, Alien Domain, Offshore developers, Visionary

customer: Saved by Agile

By Vinodhini Tharaneetharen

© Exilesoft Pvt Ltd. 2014

Automated WMS - Autostore

Automated WMS - Autostore

Key challenges

Key challenges

New, huge and complex domain

No documentation

Limited people from customer know the

domain

Legacy system up and running

Time to market

Legacy code not structured

New documentation – Validation issues

Customer with no agile experience

Where do we start?

0th sprint

Contract type

Environment

Existing tools

Build server

Source control

When evolving… Beyond ‘Text book agile’

Team Model

New Team Members

Enough Design Up-front

Multiple Customer

Releases

Pre Planning Meetings

Sprint Planning

Continuous communication

Test Celebration

Code Reviews

Testing Process

Work Distribution

• On-site team

• Off-shore team

Trust Between Team Members

Technical Debt

Todays success…