The Improvement System Summary All improvement should be connected to business outcomes. Improvement frameworks can be leveraged to ensure alignment […]
On a daily basis, a Scrum Team understands its progress towards achieving the Sprint Goal, and, if necessary, adjusts its
Summary KPIs are a way to measure the impact of development initiatives on business outcomes A way to measure the
‘Big Room Planning’, or PI Planning, is one of the core events of the Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe. It’s
The Sprint Retrospective What: An opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to
The Sprint Review What: Event held at the end of every Sprint to inspect the Increment and adapt the Product
The Daily Scrum The daily scrum (or stand-up) event is primarily for the development team. Others may attend but not
Sprint Planning What: Confirm what can be delivered in the upcoming sprint Identify the work needed to deliver the increment
Backlog Refinement What: Get User Stories ready: who/what/why acceptance criteria small enough to fit – split if necessary dependencies in
Scrum was introduced to address the unacceptably high failure rate of software projects. (The annually published CHAOS Report by the
The scaled agile framework (SAFe) enables organizations to transform business needs into working software in a consistent, repeatable way, using
“Alan: Now, how to play the flute. (picking up a flute) Well, you blow in one end and move your fingers up
In Agile Data Science – Part 1 we reviewed some of the fundamental challenges of doing data science with agility,
“Scrum exposes every inadequacy or dysfunction within an organization’s product and system development practices. The intention of scrum is to
Try this … Get proposed feature list Assign “business value points” using Fibonacci – just relative ranking – use Planning
“We place the highest value on actual implementation and taking action. There are many things one doesn’t understand and therefore,
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” – James Joyce, Ulysses “Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but
“Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.” W. Edwards Deming. The project is underway and I need a
Ideal Iteration Length – A survey Recently I put the question of the rationale for a max sprint length of
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software. So says the first