Tag: Waterfall

Lots of organizations are desperately trying to bring agility in their enterprise IT. In such cases, enterprise IT stands on the worn pillars of traditional Waterfall process and legacy products.

The business in such orgs sees IT as a black hole where no business need can escape from inside it. The reason being, traditional process, and legacy systems take months of cycle time to deliver almost any business need.

This results in a frustrated and desperate stakeholders who threaten to try anything or everything under the sun to get tangible outcomes.

This case-study is a story of a bank which was almost on the verge of outsourcing its entire IT. The bank since has moved on to become one of the pioneers in banking innovation space. It focuses to serve its customers every day with innovation and agility in a faster paced competitive ecosystem.
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There have been a lot of agile success stories but mostly are around project challenges and how teams overcame them. In those high level details, the experiences from the trenches get hidden or get overlooked.

There are still many projects and people, who are transitioning from waterfall to Agile. It’s interesting for such people to hear the experiences from similar people (who moved waterfall to Agile) around their role, i.e. how for a developer role things got changed and similarly for tester/BA/Scrum Master roles as well.

This post is based on the real interviews of team members of such a project in a large enterprise. The team members shared their perspectives around their role. For everyone in the team, this was their first ever Agile project.