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How do you measure success rate of large scale agile process?

[BHAGEERATHI BAI]

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About me..

Bhageerathi Bai, Software Quality Engineer at Intel India Pvt Ltd.

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Our teams Quality reviews and releases Challenges Solution Success Measure

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Internal

Hardware, Software, System teams Software and Hardware Integrators

Third party

Software and Hardware Teams

Manufacturer

Component and Board Manufacturers

Integration

Large Scale Agile Players…

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A define/build/test component team

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Large scale Agile teams distributed …

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Our teams Quality reviews and releases Challenges Solution Success Measure

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System1 Hardware team 1 Component 1.1 Component 1.2 Software team 2 Component 2.1 Software team 3 Component 3.1 Component 3.2

Quality Assessments…

PSI Quality

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Go/No-Go meetings..

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Quality Assessments of Components – Pre-requisites

Define Goals/Criteria Collect Metrics Generate Assessments

capture quality trends

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Milestone Candidate Quality review process – CUSTOMIZED

Initiate and collect data for each criteria Review against defined metric for completeness Generate Assessments Milestone candidate ready Approve Assessmen ts

No

Raise Exceptions and track to closure

Yes

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Milestones

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HW MS1 HW MS2 HW MS3 Production Pre-prod1 Pre-prod2 Pre-prod3 Production

Hardware Milestones Software and System Milestones

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Our teams Quality reviews and releases Challenges Solution Success Measure

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• Customized Quality Assessments of

Individual components

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• Component Deliverables to

customers in isolation

• Unsynchronized release

cycles

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Our teams Quality reviews and releases Challenges Solution Success Measure

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Tailoring large scale Agile …

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How did we implement!!

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Establish Common Quality language – goals and challenging metrics Roll out Organization wide training plan Mandated Common release review Process Ensured Adoption by all the teams

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• Requirements management
• Feature Development
• Defects and customer escalations
• Third party Compliance
• Manufacturing checks
• Compatibility tests
• Customer scenarios
• In-house Deployment Tests
• Documentation … etc.

Common Quality Framework measured areas.. REVISED!!

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Product release review process..

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What Changed?… HW/SW Milestone Candidate Quality review process

Initiate and collect data for each criteria Review against defined metric for completeness Generate Assessments Milestone candidate ready Approve Assessmen ts

No

Raise Exceptions and track to closure

Yes

• Criteria – Common Criteria Traction
• Defined Metric – More Stringent Metrics
• Exceptions – Close before next Milestone
• Milestone candidate – New Integration

Process to synchronize releases

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HW/SW Milestone Candidate System assessments With latest component releases Milestone Declaration

Component Assessment

System wide Assessments Ship release approval

Synchronize releases..

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Hardware Milestones Software and System Milestones

HW MS1 HW MS2 HW MS3 Production Pre-prod1 Pre-prod2 Pre-prod3 Production

Dependencies were taken care…

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Common Quality Framework ensures…

Establish Common Quality standards across organization Prevent component team declaring release in isolation Help ask “right” questions during ship decisions Transparency across entire system Central change control process Consistency of business processes Manage quality and risk of the product Raise the quality bar to align with customer expectations

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Our teams Quality reviews and releases Challenges Solution Success Measure

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Results

Stream line dependencies and Release schedules Team collaboration Improved Improvement in the Quality Processes Time to market was met as planned Plan future releases with horizon of Predictability Maintained zero critical exposure defects Associated Finance Risks were in control

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Limitations!

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Conclusion

• Delivering what customer wants
• Open Communication with

customer

• Being trusted by customer
• Synchronize Release cycles to show

working software frequently

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Questions ?