Scrum.

Our big adoption war story

Carlos Sirias
csirias@pernix-solutions.com
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About Carlos Routes we QA

Sirias took

Challenges
What worked
for us

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 About Carlos Sirias
• Co-Founder / Owner of Pernix-Solutions a Nearshore
Software company

• Thirteen years working on distributed environments as

Software Engineer working from Costa Rica
• Seven with Intel
• Four with Hewlett Packard
• Last two with Pernix

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 Challenges
Slow?
Isolated
Is Agile
Teams
better?
Centralized
Departments?

Silver Bullet
Organization
Thinking
Governance? Environment?

Management
Failure to
learn from
How do we
others?
commit?

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 Routes we took...

Interest
Training Group

Marketing
External
Consultants

Corporate
Sponsor

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 What worked for us?

Sponsor
Local Coaches

Governance
From
components
Marketing to features

Self
Education Organizing
Teams

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What worked for us?

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What worked for us?

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What worked for us?

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 What worked for us?

Hung up on
nomenclature Stakeholder
Pace
Trust

Give it a
Perfect time to chance
start

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