Solutions to 30 Real-World Challenges with User Stories

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The CPPIB Case Study

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is responsible for investing pension funds on behalf of all Canadians. CPPIB engaged our services in April 2009 to transform the Enterprise Data Management (EDM, also called MDM) group into an Agile community.

Gil Broza carried out the “Do Agile” program between April and June 2009. It consisted of an Agile Readiness Assessment, a 2-day Pragmatic Scrum course, project kick-off including Agile chartering, and daily coaching of the project community (~25 people). He followed up with the “Be Agile” program between July and October.

Nahir Khan, a Waterloo University co-op student working with EDM during that time, wrote a case study about EDM's Agile adoption, four months after it started. Read it here.

The EDM community did in fact address most of the pain points in the study. Between August and October they resolved the matters of insufficient high-level design, defect handling process, and significantly increased pairing across the entire group.

"Thanks to Gil's knowledge and enthusiasm, the team learned the Scrum techniques in a short period of time and became very effective. Gil's team building skills also helped in creating positive team dynamics for the MDM team. I was a pleasure working with Gil.” - Sadique Syed, CBIP, Enterprise Data Architect at Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto