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Lessons I Learned from an Agile
Transition in the Energy Sector
From 0 to 120 Persons in 12 Months
Stephanie Gasche
Who am I?⟩ Management Consultant at Boris Gloger⟩ Studied English, History and
International Business Management in the UK and France
⟩ Assists Agile Organisations and Scrum-Team members during the change
⟩ Founded her own start-up www.fleissigebiene.com in 2014
⟩ Blogs about Agility at http://borisgloger.com/author/stephanie-gasche/
Welcome to the Energy Sector
One group...⟩ Revenue: ~8 billion (2012)⟩ Profit: ~140 million (2012)
...but three companies involved: business, product management and IT services
Welcome to the Energy Sector
Our client: product management company
The product: SAP-based internal accounting system
The problem: “requirement jam“
Suit up. We want the full-on Agile transition.
Step #1: Transition Team
John P. Kotter Leading Change“Forming a Powerful Guiding Coalition“
⟩ Who? Management ⟩ What? Get the organisation ready for the
transition⟩ How? Have you heard of Scrum…
October 2012
Step #2: Make it or break it
Turning the 2 most different and
most delicate projects into
2 Scrum-Teams
October 2012
Step #3: Try something different
Put people from 2 different departments
into 1 cross-functional Scrum-
Team
January 2013
Step #4: Scaling Scrum
⟩ Team re-shuffle April 2013
ScrumMaster Team
⟩ Attempt #1: loose coordination⟩ Attempt #2: Sprints⟩ Attempt #3: topic-related carers
April 2013
Product Owner Team
⟩ Two Domain Product Owners⟩ 1 Company Product Owner⟩ Regular synchronisation
April 2013
...in the meantime...Info-Events
Sprint-Party
ImpedimentParty
Introduction of KPIs
Scrum Street
Step #5: Transition Team
2.0
⟩ 4 areas of specialisation
⟩ Mentoring for Scrum-Teams
June 2013
Step #6: Scaling Scrum even further
September 2013September 2013
Lessons Learned
⟩ Follow John P. Kotter‘s 8 Critical Steps to Success more accurately
⟩ Get everyone on-board from day one
⟩ Management should live Scrum⟩ Get hired by your real client⟩ Transparency⟩ Introduce KPIs at the very
beginning⟩ Adapt your pace to the company
Lessons I Learned from an Agile
Transition in the Energy Sector
From 0 to 120 Persons in 12 Months
Stephanie Gasche
