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Unpacking Agile Transformation: The System of Delivery

Leading Agile

Through our work at LeadingAgile, we’ve come to believe there are three core systems necessary to instantiate and sustain an Agile enterprise. Think about things like how we write user stories, how we estimate work, how we run planning cadences, how we deal with technical concerns, and how we measure done.

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A Word on Velocity

Leading Agile

It is important to understand that the usefulness of velocity as a predictor of a team’s future story capacity in a sprint is an emergent property of a persistent team following an estimate and execute cycle; the key implication of this being that stability of velocity is what’s desirable, regardless of the magnitude.

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

It’s usually based on a cadence. As shown in the above figure, there is no regular timeboxed iteration, but incremental delivery can happen in cadence. When Inaccurate Estimation Results in Delayed Delivery. Estimates are often inaccurate because they are made in absolute numbers. This is depicted in the below figure.

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Agile Transformation: ChatGPT or McBoston?

Scrum.org

A rough estimation of the budget required. The team will establish a Sprint cadence, usually two weeks, in which they will plan, execute, and review their work. Sustainability: The transformation should be sustainable, meaning that the organization should be able to continue the change after the consultancy is gone.

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The Best Project Management Templates

Wrike

Without resource management tools that let you allocate your budget accordingly, you could easily exceed your initial estimate. Learning from the past is one of the best ways to reliably and sustainably improve performance. You can evaluate project management best practices and consider how you can do better the next time around.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Agile Transformation

Leading Agile

They hypothesized that estimating the cards and doing burn-down charts would increase throughput. That having weekly planning cadences; daily standups, reviews, and retrospectives would give people a reason to get in the same room and collaborate. How do we create shared understanding across the organization? Training services?

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"Why can?t we plan Sprints accurately with velocity?"

Scrum.org

As the Development Team breaks PBIs down into tasks during Sprint Planning (by no means a way of working prescribed by Scrum, but a common complementary practice nevertheless), it estimates the tasks in hours. Planning continues until the team runs out of hours. Why is making accurate Sprint forecasts important anyway?

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