- Read the article provided here titled “Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story” and complete this case study assignment.
Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
1.Determine the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method.
2.Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its effectiveness for later execution and product release.
3.Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
4.Determine the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and evaluate how it enabled the project success.
5.Explain why DC did not use offshore resources and evaluate whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. .
6.Speculate on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
7.Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format.
Include an introduction and conclusion. Breakout each (6) paragraph title.
– SCRUM method VS Traditional Waterfall method
– Performed Project Planning Effectiveness
– Monitoring Tools
– Challenges Identified
– Resources
– Leadership Roles
The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
Answer preview
Deloitte Consulting built a Release Roadmap which had details of the features to be included in the current release. Estimations on the following features in the coming releases could also be done. Deciding on a production timeline was eased when the features stabilized and therefore the adjusting of the roadmap after every release. The releases planned were done on the co-located weeks to ensure that assessing the subsequent feature and baselining the workload and project priorities could be done by the whole team. Balancing the features in the backlog and making them a priority was done using excel sheets and the list of the features validated was then authenticated with the client’s needs before anything else was done. To ensure that every member of the team had a task to work on, the planners ensured that the SP team site had work items for them. Work items that could not be planned for and made ready for use were kept in the product backlog for later. The effectiveness of the planning done by DC for later execution and product release is that it ensures adequate time is spent on the essential functionalities. This is because distractions during release planning are eliminated hence no time pressure. The main focus is on what can be delivered.
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