Rally Software Presentation - AccuRev

Scaling Up: Agile Tools for Project Success1Amy Ulug, Lead User Experience ArchitectFebruary 4, 2010

IntroductionNuanceNuance is the leading provider of speech and imagingsolutions for business and consumers around the world.Dial 6112

My Evolution with Agile…• Certified as Scrum Master in early 2007– Agile University (Rally)• Seeded Nuance with Scrum and Agile methodologies• Lead the first team at Nuance to adopt Scrum– Served as Scrum Master, Architect, and co-Product Owner– Trained the team on scrum practices• Lived, Learned, and Adapted– Began with a new team – highly distributed– Attempted to “manage” the backlog with a Spreadsheet– Tried to maintain the sprint burn downs with homegrown Spreadsheets– Kept repositories of information (design decisions and test cases) on a wiki– Manually tracked requirements from various origins– Worked to provide transparency with stakeholders• Identified a true need for Agile Lifecycle Management Tools4

The benefits…• Management can see a difference– The team is more efficient– The program is more organized– The data is at our fingertips at all times– We have a clear path of where we are goingand a trail of where we’ve been• Our users love the difference– They are helping to drive the direction of the product– They are amazed at our turnaround6

Where we are now…• Nuance has a suite of successful agile teams– Our teams are…• Tighter and more coordinated• More motivated• Enjoying a higher level of visibility– Our users and stakeholders are…• Engaged• Happy with the trajectory of our product• Seeing real value in the agile process• We are actively scaling our agile success to the Enterprise– Over a dozen distributed teams using Rally– Now we have new challenges and hurdles!7

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