Driving Agility @ a US Retail Chain

A US Retail Chain that had been in the business for decades found themselves lacking the muscles to adapt to market quickly. Their software releases took more than a year and they wanted to bring it down to a quarter, so that they can release often to the market and get frequent feedback too.

• • Re-aligned people into small, self-managing teams that work on a specific product area
• • Coached engineers, by pairing with them, on how to deliver a shippable increment every few weeks.
• • Coached the management on removing systemic impediments.
• • Recalibrated their CI/CD pipelines to support speed.
• • Rolled out a metrics ecosystem that enabled the teams to stay committed to the journey