Symphony has Agile exposure since 2004, our 40% projects are in agile. We have mastered distributed scrum with right projectmanagement and engineering practices

1. Distributed Scrum Symphony Recommendations

2. Recommended Practices Define the distributed team model before projects. Ensuring standardized tools and process across teams. Sprint -1& 0 at one location Get to know client and domain Decide / discuss architecture together Norming session for shared ownership shared context personal relationships team bonding shared agile value systems Establish and communicate common matrices collected across teams. 2

3. Recommended Practices Contd.. Joint sprint planning, review and retrospection Daily local standup meeting and Scrum of Scrum meetings across teams through Video conferencing. No distinction between teams at different sites. Daily meetings with Product Owner team. Virtual scrum boards – usage of collaboration tools Right set of engineering stack Set up same development / QA environment across location Automated builds Continuous integration Unit testing Refactoring 3

4. Conclusion Through these practices we address Strategic challenges –like leveraging available resources and best practices Project and process management Communication Technical - like incompatible data formats, schemas and standards Security – Ensuring electronic transmission confidentiality and privacy 4

5. Thank you For further information contact Prasad P Manager, Agile Labs pprabhak@symphonysv.com 5