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Following a series of performance consulting assignments, which Monetical carried out between July 07 and May 08 for a client working for a number of large European I.T. organisations; the findings demonstrated clearly a need to migrate from a traditional Waterfall development process to an Agile development process. The key drivers were to reduce project risk and increase the teams ability to adapt to a number of external factors, whilst demonstrating progress through a series of small modular releases.

Key project characteristics:

- no prior Agile experience

- approx. 12 project team members

- approx 9 months project duration

- distributed project teams

- multi-cultural/language team

- highly project interdependancy

 The focus of adopting Agile is to deliver early value to the customer and to enable the client to assess the performance of each iteration or sprint against the goals set in the sprint planning meeting.

The findings enable the team to determine how well the sprint met the goals and objectives which had been set and to uncover root causes of issues and continuously tunes and adjusts its behaviour.

Key organisational benefits:

- checks and measures for the successful adoption of Agile

- ensure collective ownership

- ensure collective responsibilities

- promotion of best pratices

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Today, the Clients continued use of Monetical enables it to retain the ability to continually evaluate and optimise their Agile development. This is achieved through the execution of a series of audits at key project stages.

Each iteration/sprint consists of the following performance audits:

- Product Backlog: Ensure a common product vision and agreement of story prioritisation for each sprint.

- Resource Management: Determines the make-up and suitability of resources for the project and to each sprint.

- Performance Assessment: Determines whether meetings exploit best practices.

- Test Process: Evaluates the characteristics of the Agile testing process against best practices.

- Story Testing: Ensuring the suitability and quality of the planned user domain testing.


Each benchmark audit is performed on-line via a dedicated Agile Consulting Assignment. The project owners manage the consulting assignment; participants contribute by responding to survey type questions that seek a 'scoring' response to a particular topic. Where performance levels fall below acceptable levels the project owner, project team, ScrumMaster, customer and stakeholders are guided through a root cause analysis module to uncover the true performance issue and guides them to implement a suitable corrective measure that enhance the performance during following iterations.