Building a National Warning System with Agile Excellence
As a Scrum Master for a newly formed group at DMI that was building a national flood warning system, I facilitated the execution of this highly complex project with many different stakeholders and risks. Together with the teams, I demonstrated the team’s ability to coordinate and deliver early while adapting to changing requirements.
The team members had very different areas of expertise and were too large to fit into a single Scrum team. In the 3 months I guided the team and implemented:
- An increase level of psychological safety within the group
- A Fluid Scrum, where cross-functional teams were formed each sprint to maximize outcome
- A streamlined development process and coordination without the need for a scaled agile setup.
- MOB programming sessions to minimize lead time to production and increase shared ownership
- Coaching the Project manager, People manager, and Product Owners to increase the level of teamwork across these roles
- Briding the iterative development process from Scrum with the traditional project mangement and steering group setup
The benefits for DMI were a project with a simple and uncomplicated organizational structure and a fluid team structure that enabled them to adapt quickly to changing requirements and share knowledge across the team.
