1. Learnings @WalmartLabs
Agile India 2014,
26 Feb 2014, Bangalore

2. More than 245
million customer visits each week
2.2 million associates
Over 10,800 retail units under 69 different banners in 27 countries
$466 billion net sales in fiscal year 2013
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3. Sites we support
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4. Individuals don't win, teams do.
- Sam Walton
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5. Levels of Agility
Program
Project
People
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6. Agile Program

7. Bind the threads – Dependency management
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8. Alignment
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9. Lifecycle
Walmart Agile Software Lifecycle
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10. Agile Project

11. Project Visualization
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12. Project Visualization
Decode signals from noise
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13. Bottleneck
System
Constraints
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14. Backlog Management
Story Decomposition
Finish First, Start Later
Story Elaboration
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15. Process Retrospective
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16. Retrospection
Team Participation
Process Experiments
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17. Metrics
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18. Estimation
Hour based Estimation
Point based Estimation
Communication Tool
Team Sentiments
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19. Agile Individuals

20. Outside-in Perspective
Internal change agents
- Kamal Mangalani , Agile Lead Walmart GEC , Agile Alliance council of advisors
- Agile Steering Group : Cross functional leaders transforming the organization
Agile Coaches
Invited Speakers
Walmart Mega Meetups, Monthly talks/ panels with Industry leaders
using the Walmart Platform
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21. Employee Training
Real-time workshop
Theory ó Practice
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22. Micro Changes, Macro Impact
Improve
Deliver
Learn
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23. THANK YOU
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