A major New York based dot-com organization has hired Instrumental Services for agile coaching and mentoring services. This successful dot-com organization creates and maintains online communities for ethnic audiences. It has more than 16 million users.
Last week, I finished coaching one of the teams. Dennis Kwok, the project manager on the team, has nicely summarized his experiences in this report (pdf).
To summarize the challenges that Dennis experienced:
1. Initially it felt chaotic.
2. Storng dependency on the product manager.
3. Complex stories were difficult to accept.
To summarize the benefits that Dennis experienced:
1. Team’s spirit and moral increased.
2. There was a better sense of a team.
3. The developers became more focussed.
4. The quality of the code was better.
5. It was easier to manage change.
6. Estimates became more accurate.
7. Less time spent on documentation.
Next week, I will be training the customer team composed of Information Architects and Product managers.
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