However, the purpose was not (only) to achieve short-term goals but mid/long term ones. On the one hand, the project manager was interested in running a transformational experience whose results could be later used to convince the heads of the ministry about the convenience of adopting these practices. On the other hand, the coaching experts were interested on proving that the application of these techniques to software development teams could result on immediate results, and to foster the interest of software practitioners on the application of these techniques to software engineering (keep in mind the experience was run in the context of an action-research initiative).