Agile Transformation at a Tier 1 Supplier
Case Study
A global Tier 1 supplier had just released their product for series production using an older, mostly disregarded process set. Their delivery was plagued by the familiar problems of heroics, a struggle answering the question "are we on track?", and an ASPICE assessment report filled with the color Red. Each software team implemented some for of Scrum with varying results.
How Scrum Teams improved by 48% in delivering on commitments
Reinnovate took a hands-on approach to leading an enterprise agile transformation at the company. All of the system, software, and project management processes were eventually redesigned from scratch by working directly with Process Owners to capture best practices and guide them toward compliance (ASPICE, ISO 26262) Lifecycles were redrawn to support an iterative approach centered on the concept of Rolling-Wave Release Planning. PDCA methodology was used to plan processes and then pilot them. During the pilots, data was captured and analyzed which led to iterative improvement in process usability and effectiveness. Eventually, all processes were released to production and now are in use across the organization.
One example of success was the establishment of Scrum rules to align teams around a common implementation. The Complete / Commit KPI was used to measure planning effectiveness. Over a stretch of 4 releases, the average team Complete / Commit went from 65% to 95% which was within the organizational planning performance KPI of delivering 90-110% of the committed sprint velocity. The new methodology was proven on a large pilot (50 people, 9 months) resulting in the late delivery of additional features and quality measures (late critical defects) significantly exceeding a similar project done the previous year.
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