Olive Case Study On Implementing
Success
Story
Company Profile:
Industry: Education/Publishing
David C Cook established in 1875, is a non-
profit organization based in Colorado Springs,
CO. DCC is dedicated to publishing and distrib-
uting leadership and discipleship resources to
help Christians all over the world. They have
published numerous bestselling books. They
partner with indigenousorganizations to equip
Pastors, Lay Leaders and Sunday School Teach-
ers with their mat-erials in places like India,
China and Cuba.
Olive’s
Value-added
Benefits
• Olive has serviced over 100 clients in
10 countries since 1996
• Olive is ISO 9001:2008 for Quality
Management Systems & ISO/IEC
27001:2005 for Information Security
Management Systems certified and
is currently developing competencies
to achieve CMMi certification
• Olive is a Microsoft software full
solution provider for turn-key
projects in web, enterprise, and
system support services
• Olive has a team of over 80 qualified
individuals to work on customized
projects
5350 N. Academy Blvd. Suite 202, Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Agile Scrum Methodology
Executive Summary
David C. Cook is a large publishing house with several websites and applications that are critical
to its business. They approached Olive to help them develop a website for “Rio” and “Tru”, two of
their curriculum lines. The Rio website provides information about Rio Sunday School curriculum.
It also has the flexibility to download related material. The website requires users to register user.
Forums and blogs are also available powered by a Content Management System (CMS).
Olive’s Solution
Olive developed the project on Rio and Tru websites based on .NET Nuke framework. After initial
evaluation of the requirements of DCC, Olive proposed Agile Scrum Development Methodology.
This methodology gives quick results in small iterations which is called ‘Sprint’. Each sprint
follows these stages:
• Planning
• Requirement Analysis
• Design
• Coding
• Unit Testing
• System Testing
There are daily meetings among all the project stake holders to know the status of the task. The
daily meeting is called SCRUM. Scrum is an iterative, incremental methodology commonly used
in agile software development. The methodology utilizes a set of practices and predefined roles.
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master (Olive’s Project Manager)
• Developers
• DCC Stakeholders
Based on Olive’s evaluation of various client requirements, a customized Agile Scrum Methodology
was implemented In Olive’s implementation, each sprint cycle lasts 2 weeks. The breakdown of the
time is as follows:
• 7 days of development
• 2 days of QA and
• 1 day for sprint planning
Olive has an onsite project manager working full time with the client. He plays the role of scrum
master as well as proxy product owner.
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Phone 719-559-4736 Fax 719-785-5786 Web www.olivetech.com

About Olive Technology
Olive Technology is a custom software
development and IT solutions provider
specializing in Enterprise Solutions,
Application Development, and Web
Technology. Olive has served customers
in 10 countries, spreading to the regions
of North America, European Union, East
Asia, India and Africa. By serving the
world’s leading for-profit and non-profit
companies, Olive empowers individuals
and communities to use knowledge and
technology for the betterment of the lives
of people.
Olive Technology was founded in 1996
and has service centers in the US, India
and Indonesia, each with dedicated staff
and operations to ensure an optimum
level of service delivery. This allows
professional and focused solutions to be
delivered to a range of clients.
5350 N. Academy Blvd. Suite 202, Colorado Springs, CO 80918
Empowering People
Through Technology
DCC Development Methodology- Agile Scrum
The various stakeholders in Agile Methodology are assigned responsibilities for successful com-
pletion of the project. Below mentioned are the activities performed by each stakeholder of the Rio
Project:
• Product Owner: The product owner collects the requirements from various stakeholders
in DCC, performs a business analysis and gets approval from DCC stakeholders. As a
proxy product owner, he drafts the user stories and prioritizes those in consultation with
DCC stakeholders. He also prepares the product backlog.
• Scrum master: The Scrum Master plans for the sprint, monitors the project/sprint execu-
tion and connects with the developers through daily Skype calls. He takes care of remov-
ing the blocks faced by the developers. Sprint planning happens for every 2 weeks on the
very first day of the sprint. This sprint plan meeting is the time when the stories from the
product backlog are pulled into sprint plan based on the priority and are taken up con-
sidering the velocity. The scrum master explains and discusses the stories/requirements
at length and developers come up with the set of tasks to accomplish each requirement.
Effort to address each task is also estimated by the developers. Sprint review is done at the
end of each sprint.
• Developers: Developers take up the stories assigned to them during sprint plan meeting
and start addressing those and checking the code related to the stories of Team Foundation
Server. They also update the status of the story along with the effort hours that they have
spent on that story. After the development of the sprint, QA is takes up QA tasks and gets
back with QA report. Parallel issue fixing will happen during QA. Once QA approves, the
release is given for UAT. Retrospective on the project is done after every 45 days.
• DCC Stakeholders: They will carry out UAT and any items raised during this period are
analyzed and categorized into change requests, defects and enhancements. Defects are
taken up in the immediate sprint on high priority. Other two categories can be deferred
based on the need and priority. These items are tracked by the scrum master.
Tools & Technology
Tools and technology used for developing Rio website are:
• DNN
• CMS Framework
• Visual Studio 2008
• SQL Server 2008 as the backend
Tools and technology used for Tru are:
• SharePoint 2007
• MS Commerce Server 2009
• Telligent Community Server
Business Benefits
• Higher level of risk management
• Client’s ownership and control over their own software
• Easily adapting software to the changing environment
• Higher return on investment
© Olive Technology, Inc.
Phone 719-559-4736 Fax 719-785-5786 Web www.olivetech.com