Agile Program Management: Measurements to See Value and Delivery
Do you have measurement dysfunction on your program? Are you trying to measure teams and extrapolate each team’s status to the program? That doesn’t work. Teams have personal status, and […]
Jumping off the hamster wheel with Kanban
You’re running and running and running but the scenery never changes. You never actually get to your destination. So, you run faster and faster thinking that if you try harder, […]
Agile is Risk Management — Dump the Process and Embrace the Principles
The existence of a heavyweight risk management process is a good indicator that a company has failed to embrace the essence of what agile is. But software development is risky. […]
Active Portfolio Management
When Agile teams begin to deliver products incrementally, new opportunities open up at the portfolio level, delivering strategic business value. However, the traditional approach to portfolio management — which depends […]
The Impact of Agile Quantified: A de-Mystery Thriller
Ironically, much of the Agile process is based on intuition. Folklore. Anecdotes. Tradition. Faith. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN AGILE HISTORY, there is solid research backed by the hard […]
How to improve Flow Efficiency, remove the red bricks
Do you want to improve end-to-end feature lead-time? It is not a question of working harder. It is a question of first removing the feature wait time, the red bricks. […]
Moneyball for Software Projects: Agile Metrics for the Metrically Challenged
This session talks about how to capture metrics, how to identify which metrics carry the most information, and how to use metrics to forecast a future.
How long will it take? Probabilistic forecasting for math mortals
You know “collaboration over contract negotiation”, right? Metrics often drive a wedge between management/stakeholders and the team, none more so than forecasting metrics. However, when you give a probability distribution […]
Scaling Agile Projects to Programs: Networks of Autonomy, Collaboration and Exploration
This session shows how to scale a project to a program using agile and lean approaches to manage your program with small-world networks.
One Metric to Rule Them All: Effectively Measure Your Teams Without Subjugating Them
*If you don’t know how to measure what you want, you’ll end up wanting what you can measure.* Most often the thing you want to know isn’t easily quantifiable, and […]
