Apresentação de Alexandre dos Santos e Julio Duram sobre o processo Scrum dentro do UOL.

1. UOL
Usability challenges in Agile/Scrum times
November, 2009

2. UOL – www.uol.com.br
• Brazilian portal created in 1996 – news, e-
commerce, Internet access, e-mail and
advertising
• UOL is the largest portal written in
Portuguese
• The most visited portal in Latin America
• About 400 IT people creating and operating
Internet products

3. What is UOL?
• 1.7 million of
subscribers
• 7 million of active
mailboxes
• 1.7 billion of page
views
• 67% reach of
Brazilian Internet
• About 30 scrum
teams

4. Why should we change from RUP to
something else?
• Do the business departments have a good
relationship with you?
• How much energy is wasted discussing
requirements change instead of producing
value?
• Can you see the products being delivered
easier as long as company invests more
money to do them?

5. The Agile Way of Thinking
• Before Scrum
• With Scrum
Thks to gojko.net for the picture

6. Why Agile Exist?
• Hard to manage software as a manufactured
activity
• Hard to know details of what a product
should have from the beginning
• Market changes: new opportunities and
other players

7. Scrum in a Nutshell
Inspection
Work
Demo
release
Backlog Planning Tasks Work Inspection Retro
3 weeks

8. Challenges in a Scrum Organization
• Make teams follow good practices and
standards
• Define design before each sprint
• Make customer understand learning by
doing

9. Muito obrigado!
Alexandre dos Santos,
(alexst@uol.com.br)
Julio Duram,
(jduram@uolinc.com)