A few posts back, I asked if an agile team should be expected to call their shots. In other words, should we expect that over time, an agile team should be able to accurately predict what they’ll be able to deliver at the end of the iteration? My asse…
What do I look for day-one coaching an agile team? The first thing I want to know is if the team is really a team? Do they have everything (and everyone) they need to deliver an increment of working software? Do they plan together, do they work toge…
Okay… consider this scenario. We have a 300 person IT shop responsible for developing control systems that automate large buildings. These systems require front end developers, middleware developers, firmware developers, and hardware engineers. A …
There is a part of me that is a little uncomfortable with my conclusion at the end of the ‘Velocity in the Enterprise’ series. Using a Kanban metaphor at the team, project, and portfolio level makes sense… I also think it is the right way to look at…
In my post ‘Organizational Myopia’ we talked about an increasingly common problem with the language we use. We ‘talk’ quite often like we are delivering a cross-functional end-to-end feature of the overall system, when in reality… we are really only…
Okay… so the travel marathon starts today. Spent an hour in the Sweetwater Pub in the Atlanta airport earlier this afternoon. Had a nice Sweetwater IPA and a great bowl of 420 Beer Cheese Soup. Very tasty. Got on the plane and the weather was so …
Before we start talking about an alternative to velocity, let’s take a moment to recap the last few posts in this series… I’ve basically stated that velocity only works in certain circumstances and in certain types of organizational structures. For …
Lot’s of companies are finding out about velocity the hard way. There are many, many contexts where velocity just can’t be used effectively to measure enterprise throughput. These companies are doing some interesting things with velocity in an attempt …
Last post we talked about two criteria that must me met for us to have any chance of establishing an enterprise velocity. First, let’s explore a situation where the teams are not fully nested under the project.When Project Teams aren’t NestedProbably …
One of the advantages of using a software solution for tracking team velocity is that it is pretty easy to roll the data up. The idea is that you have lots of individual teams that all contribute completed features to a larger project or program. But…