Transcript of Learnings @WalmartLabs - Agile journey
Learnings @WalmartLabs Agile India 2014, 26 Feb 2014, Bangalore
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More than 245 million customer visits each week
2.2 million associates
Over 10,800 retail units under 69 different banners in 27 countries
$466 billion net sales in fiscal year 2013
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Sites we support
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Individuals don't win, teams do. - Sam Walton
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Levels of Agility
People
Program
Project
Agile Program
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Bind the threads – Dependency management
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Alignment
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Lifecycle
Walmart Agile Software Lifecycle
Agile Project
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Project Visualization
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Project Visualization
Decode signals from noise
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Bottleneck
System
Constraints
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Backlog Management
Story Decomposition
Finish First, Start Later
Story Elaboration
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Process Retrospective
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Retrospection
Team Participation
Process Experiments
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Metrics
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Estimation
Hour based Estimation
Point based Estimation
Communication Tool
Team Sentiments
Agile Individuals
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Outside-in Perspective
Internal change agents - Kamal Mangalani , Agile Lead Walmart GEC , Agile Alliance council of advisors - Agile Steering Group : Cross functional leaders transforming the organization
Agile Coaches
Invited Speakers Walmart Mega Meetups, Monthly talks/ panels with Industry leaders using the Walmart Platform