Experience Report: Agile Transformation & Implementation at Cisco Video Business
Channel: OGuild
Date: 2015-07-03

In this video, Venkateswaran NS, Manager, Engineering at Cisco Systems, talks about “Experience Report: Agile Transformation & Implementation at Cisco Video Business”.

This session covered:

Prepare for our journey:
• Organization Structure – Did we change it?
• Choosing Agile Roles – Did we consider existing employees or hire new employees for agile roles?
• Culture & Values – Does Agile ruin what we are good at?


Get started on our journey:
• Roll out within the organization – Who to carry & how to scale during roll-out, executive involvement?
• Engage & Buy-in from customer & other stakeholders – Why should the customer care?


Mature on our journey:
• Ways to deal with Technical debt – What is technical debt & where does it come from? Who builds technical debt? I think management should deal with it!!! Nope employee should deal with it.
• Assess the maturity of the teams – Are the teams heading in the right direction? How we continue to guide the teams through their maturity journey?
• Ways to deal with Systematic obstacles – Everybody in the company are working/facing the same environment, let’s adjust and leave with it, pitfall isn’t it??