Case Study 1: Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story Due Week 4 and worth 100 points Read the article provided here titled “Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story” and complete this case study assignment. Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:
2. Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its effectiveness for later execution and product release.
3. Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
4. Determine the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and evaluate how it enabled the project success.
5. Explain why DC did not use offshore resources and evaluate whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. .
6. Speculate on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
7. Use at least three (3) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.
Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:
· Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
· Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:
· Compare and contrast Agile methods with traditional project management techniques.
· Explain the challenges and opportunities of an Agile project leader.
· Summarize the iterative qualities for Agile project success.
· Describe Agile project management methods and phases.
· Use technology and information resources to research issues in Agile project management.
· Write clearly and concisely about Agile project management topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.
Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric. Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.
| Points: 100 | Case Study 1: Agile in Practice – An Agile Success Story | ||||
| Criteria |
Unacceptable Below 60% F |
Meets Minimum Expectations
60-69% D |
Fair 70-79% C |
Proficient 80-89% B |
Exemplary 90-100% A |
| 1. Determine the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method.
Weight: 10% |
Did not submit or incompletely determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. | Insufficiently determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. | Partially determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. | Satisfactorily determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. | Thoroughly determined the key reasons why Deloitte Consulting (DC) chose a modified SCRUM method instead of a traditional waterfall method. |
| 2. Explain how DC performed project planning and analyze its effectiveness for later execution and product release. Weight: 15% | Did not submit or incompletely explained how DC performed project planning and did not submit or incompletely analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. | Insufficientlyexplained how DC performed project planning and insufficiently analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. | Partially explained how DC performed project planning and partially analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. | Satisfactorilyexplained how DC performed project planning and satisfactorilyanalyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. | Thoroughlyexplained how DC performed project planning and thoroughly analyzed its effectiveness for later execution and product release. |
| 3. Identify the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and explain how they overcame those challenges. Give an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process.
Weight: 15% |
Did not submit or incompletely identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and did not submit or incompletely explained how they overcame those challenges. Did not submit or incompletely gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. | Insufficientlyidentified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and insufficientlyexplained how they overcame those challenges. Insufficientlygave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. | Partially identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and partially explained how they overcame those challenges. Partially gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. | Satisfactorily identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and satisfactorily explained how they overcame those challenges. Satisfactorily gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. | Thoroughly identified the challenges that DC encountered in each project phase and thoroughly explained how they overcame those challenges. Thoroughly gave an opinion on whether the Agile concepts played an important role in this process. |
| 4. Determine the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and evaluate how it enabled the project success.
Weight: 15% |
Did not submit or incompletely determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and did not submit or incompletely evaluated how it enabled the project success. | Insufficiently determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and insufficiently evaluated how it enabled the project success. | Partially determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and partially evaluated how it enabled the project success. | Satisfactorily determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and satisfactorily evaluated how it enabled the project success. | Thoroughly determined the techniques that DC used to monitor the project progress and thoroughly evaluated how it enabled the project success. |
| 5. Explain why DC did not use offshore resources and evaluate whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally.
Weight: 15% |
Did not submit or incompletely explained why DC did not use offshore resources and did not submit or incompletely evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. | Insufficientlyexplained why DC did not use offshore resources and insufficiently evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. | Partially explained why DC did not use offshore resources and partially evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. | Satisfactorily explained why DC did not use offshore resources and satisfactorily evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. | Thoroughly explained why DC did not use offshore resources and thoroughly evaluated whether the Agile method will work in a project with diverse workforce geographically and culturally. |
| 6. Speculate on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team.
Weight: 15% |
Did not submit or incompletely speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. | Insufficiently speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. | Partiallyspeculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. | Satisfactorily speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. | Thoroughly speculated on the leadership roles needed if you were part of the DC team. |
| 7. 3 references
Weight: 5% |
No references provided | Does not meet the required number of references; all references poor quality choices. | Does not meet the required number of references; some references poor quality choices. | Meets number of required references; all references high quality choices. | Exceeds number of required references; all references high quality choices. |
| 8. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 10% |
More than 8 errors present | 7-8 errors present | 5-6 errors present | 3-4 errors present | 0-2 errors present |
