Timeline: Becoming Agile

Period: Apr 15, 2011 to Jul 1, 2012

From there to here

The SAIS Development Team roadmap FY2012

May 1, 2011

Where do we start?

800+ trouble tickets
No identifiable process for prioritization
Reactive behavior
No ownership
Changes for FY12

May 20, 2011

The Team - Team Convex

Lonnie, Brent, Viju & Priyanka
Marc and Colleen
Shared QA resource

Jun 24, 2011

FY12 Product Backlog

Phases
User Stories
131 PBIs
Defined sprints
Attempts at Estimating

Jun 30, 2011

End of Fiscal Year 2011

Jul 1, 2011

Begin FY2012

Jul 1, 2011

Scrum Proposal

Somewhere around this timeframe, the idea of using the Scrum Methodology starts to take root and the SAIS Team is given the opportunity to become the first team at ADOE-IT to apply Scrum!

Oct 1, 2011

FY12 40th Day Target -- We Hit The Target!!

Roadmap to 40th Day
1.October 1st, will be considered FY12 40th day.
2.Development bug fix required to fix log
a) Updates being made to the Check Data tool
b) Dev team to provide query for DBAs to execute
3. Bug fix required for 40 day run in October
4. Test run recommendation to insure success of October run
Risk: Tight timeline and large influx of ‘emergency’ issues; down 1 SAIS developer;
Mitigation: Team validating as we go; migration broken down & migrated throughout the week

Jan 1, 2012

New Process -- Release Planning

At this time, there are 150 PBI's currently open
Estimating Analysis; Development; QA and Ops/DBA Resources
Putting dates around Releases
- Days in each phase
- Total Hours available
- focusing on process

Jan 10, 2012

Release 5

Includes sprints 20 & 21
Sprint 20 = 12/2/2011-12/15/2011
Sprint 21 = 12/16/2011 - 12/29/2011

Jan 31, 2012

Release 6

Includes sprints 22 & 23
Sprint 22 = 12/30/2011 - 1/12/2012
Sprint 23 = 1/13/2012 - 1/26/2012

Feb 3, 2012

Colleen visits first ASCUS Meeting

The team has worked so hard this past year and all of their hard work has paid off!
Colleen's visit to the ASCUS meeting was a very positive experience! Our end users appreciate all of the hard work the team has done!

Feb 28, 2012

Release 7

Includes Sprint 24 & 25
Sprint 24 = 1/27/12-2/9/12
Sprint 25 = 2/10/12-2/23/12

Mar 27, 2012

Release 8

Includes Sprints 26 & 27
..by now you see each release is scheduled after 2 complete sprints.

Apr 13, 2012

HUGE Win!!! Migration of AOI/Concurrency fix

The ticket in which we addressed this issue is TFS #14105-Limiting module is wrongly limiting the ADM Membership counts for students that have concurrent membershps with Jted schools The Ops Migration ticket is TFS #15910-It was Migrated as an emergency and confirmed on 4/13/12.

Apr 24, 2012