Scrum War Rooms:

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Scrum War Rooms an NDS Case Study
Avidan Lamdan, Director
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Agenda

• NDS a quick overview
• NDS Agile
• Scrum war rooms
• WH question
• NDS experience
• Questions

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History of NDS

• Founded February, 1988
• Acquired by News Corp, Rupert Murdoch
  Corporation, 1990
• First Conditional Access service BSkyB, 1990
• First digital Conditional Access service
  DIRECTV, 1994
• China Cable Network (INC at the time), May 2000
• Sky launched at BSkyB with XTV technology, 2001
• Since February 2009 NDS Group Ltd is a private
  company owned by Permira Funds and News
  Corporation
• Won China DTH CA Business for 10M smart cards,
  2009/2010
• 2009 NDS commemorated shipment of 300 millionth
  smart card

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Conditional Access Customers
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Digital pay-TV Leader

• NDS VideoGuard CAand DRM solutions protect 116
  million active devices
• NDS M/W deployedin 135 million devices
• NDS DVR technology deployed in 25
  milliondevices
• NDS leads as iTV pioneer
• NDS leads with provenconvergence solutions

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NDS Agile

• Using Agile framework over the past three years
• Multi-site, Multi-national
• Large-scale projects (over 300 people)
• Supporting management
• SCRUM implementation
• Sporadic across the company
• 10 different teams (10-40 people each)

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Scrum War Rooms - What

• A Single room dedicated for a scrum development
  team
• Should facilitate XP environment
• Should include the SM Team (at least)
• PO is an option
• The best room
• Central, Spacious,
• lighted, ignited

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Scrum War Rooms - Why

• Better productivity
• Better communication
• Better adaptation for changes
• One stop shop
• Transparency
• All together now

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Scrum War rooms - How

• Reduced external communication
• No landline telephones
• Mobile on vibration
• Whiteboard, Flipchart, Projector
• Lots of power/LAN outlets
• Large desk
• Paired (10-12 people)

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Scrum War Rooms - When

• Class II scrum team and above
• The group is well formed and performed
• Limited to 12 people
• Leverage the knee effect

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NDS Experience

• Setup
• First meeting
• Fiasco
• Recovery plan
• Current status
• Lessons learned

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NDS Experience - Setup

• Dedicated team
• Internal and newcomers
• Allocation of new area
• Supportive management
• Up a certain level ?
• Lots of goodwill

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NDS Experience First Meeting

• Players
• Team leaders
• Logistics
• Architect
• Issues
• Open space
• Firm conformance
• Limited budget
• General structure

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NDS Experience Fiasco

• Poor preparation
• Not enough communication
• Intra-team
• Intra-company
• Bad vibes
• Maslow pyramid compromised

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NDS Experience Recovery Plan

• Compromise
• Single war room
• At least 50 occupancy
• Crowded seating cubicles
• A LOT of rest space
• And a movie

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NDS Experience Lessons Learned

• Communication, communication, communication!
• War room is NOT open space
• Team success is more important than mr²
• Less documentation
• Highly adaptive teams

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NDS Experience Current Status

• War room mostly occupied
• Meeting rooms not in use
• Waiting to get approval for second room
• Company-wide traction

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Questions?
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• Thank you