Table of Contents:

Purpose & Journey

In October 2025, we completed a 3-month Agile Transformation to move from traditional waterfall process to a lightweight Agile-inspired framework.

Goals of Engagement

We had several goals in mind, shown here roughly in order of priority:

• Eliminate design escapes
• Improve cross-functional awareness and alignment
• Increase confidence in functionality of tape out
• Enable systematic backward planning from GTM goals
• Promote knowledge capture and clarity through docs & demos
• Reduce meetings and ad hoc updates

Progress and Accomplishments

We established a firm foundation in Agile processes. The team has established a bi-weekly sprint cadence, created high-level framework to align with Go To Market (GTM) and tape-out milestones, wrote its definition of done, crafted examples of well-written stories, and put the rituals and tracking mechanisms in place to ensure execution and continuous improvement. Here is a recap of what we’ve accomplished:

• ✅ Define framework that aligns GTM milestones, tapeouts, and sprints
• ✅ Establish bi-weekly staggered sprint cadence
• ✅ Leverage “Sprint Quality Checklist” as clear definition of done for each sprint
• ✅ Utilize “Sprint Quality Scorecard” to monitor ongoing quality and frame continuous improvement conversation
• ✅ Craft example sprint-ready stories
• ✅ Define “done” at a story level