Vinodhini
Project Manager / Agile Coach
Exilesoft
location_on Sri Lanka
Member since 10 years
Share
Vinodhini
Specialises In (based on submitted proposals)
Vinodhini Tharaneetharen is working as Project Manager/Agile coach at Exilesoft Pvt Ltd where she plays multiple roles such as offshore product owner and scrum master for various agile teams. Vino has been a speaker of “Agile in offshore” meet up in Oslo and she is one of the key responsible members for standardizing agile practices at Exileosft. She was also a key
player as a volunteer Event Manager at the First SAARC Regional Project Management
Conference held in Sri Lanka. She is PMP certified and has 6 years of experience in the
field of information Technology working with Europe market. She has keen interest in how to
apply agile and other project management concepts in Software Engineering field.
-
keyboard_arrow_down
Robotic Warehouses, Alien Domain, Offshore developers, Visionary customer : Saved by agile
VinodhiniProject Manager / Agile CoachExilesoftThushara WijewardenaChief Project OfficerExilesoftschedule 10 years ago
20 Mins
Experience Report
Intermediate
Here is a case study of how agile outsourcing can be practically applied even when the business domain is very complex and alien to offshore teams.
The example is a project in which Exilesoft provided for a leading Norwegian producer of Robotic warehousing solutions. The project involved transforming their legacy application, produced using multiple suppliers and methods, into a newly cast application solution. This project also had its own share of typical challenges.• Lacked definitive and reliable documentation,
• Domain knowledge was limited to a few very busy individuals,
• Development and redeployment could not interrupt attention to current customers,
• Complexity was high and design was fragmented, and
• Focus heavily invested on current product and customer supportThese limitations along with the lack of understanding of agile methods strongly suggested the use of a method adaptive in nature, and not heavily vested in large inflexible legacy elements.
We commenced the engagement with two pivotal elements; client awareness (agile orientation) and a roadmap of committed involvement. To lay credibility this had to be backed up with proven result delivery in the very early stages. It allowed for flexible adaption, and the creation of an atmosphere that fostered client interest.During this session, we will take the audience through a small video clipping of such a warehouse. We will elaborate how the customer and offshore developers worked together using agile in a highly integrated team collaboration model to achieve success within a very short time frame.
The session will cover the following key areas:How such projects can be initiated
- What type of team model and contract type we used
- How we did the agile transformation with the customer
- How the roles were assigned between offshore and onshore team members
- To improve remote collaboration the tools and techniques we used
- Techniues learned to get teams up to speed with the new domain
- As we go along, the process changes we identified and implemented to make things work better.
- Agile engineering practices and team dynamics that helps in such situations
-
-
No more submissions exist.
