Project Bliss

JANUARY 6, 2020

To achieve this level of collaboration you need to be able to measure it. The goal of agile is to provide continuously integrated and delivered products quickly while maintaining quality. Once you’ve decided to implement agile, you and your team need a way of measuring the success of your implementation. Escaped Defects.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 10, 2023

You feel your Product Owner understands and honors the concepts of sustainable pace, the importance of setting the vision and Product Goal, and the radical collaboration that Scrum encourages. factor would be planning how to measure those improvements. Read on to learn how to power up your Retrospectives. Continuous learning is.”

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Scrum.org

JUNE 26, 2023

Learn more about useless agile metrics, from individual velocity to estimation accuracy to utilization rates. ? Velocity Comparisons Between Teams: Comparing the velocity of different teams is not valid, as each team has its unique context, skills, and challenges. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Scrum.org

MAY 30, 2023

The term velocity came to describe the amount of work completed in a unit of time, and story points and velocity became a way to forecast and set expectations. Story points and velocity became a way to compare teams against each other. Using story points and velocity to answer the question “when will it be done?”

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 11, 2021

Story Points and velocity have been used for many years in the Scrum community and have been engrained so much in the way that things are done that most folks believe that they are part of Scrum. The accepted wisdom is that Scrum Teams are supposed to use User Stories, Story Points, and Velocity to measure their work.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 7, 2022

In fact, the cost part is not so interesting and also complex to measure. Measuring progress implies we know our end-state. Measuring progress toward such a goal is hard to grasp in numbers. Measuring progress toward such a goal is hard to grasp in numbers. Measuring agility, therefore, boils down to two main questions:

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2023

Example I was once called into an organization because a team had a sudden, catastrophic drop in ‘Velocity’, a container term used in Scrum to indicate how much work a Team can finish within a Sprint. So, as an experiment they switched to throughput measures. Which was measured (and sold) in terms of Story Points.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 18, 2021

Work breakdown structure Product breakdown structure Organizational breakdown structure Risk breakdown structure. Here are some examples: Budget Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. For example: a project management artifact is the project closure document. The project deliverable is a new app.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 21, 2019

Dr. Sutherland and Ken Schwaber speak of “Velocity” and, to explain how Scrum breaks the Iron Triangle, they're known to say that a Scrum team increases their Velocity by reducing hand-offs, increasing quality, et cetera. In Product Development, the end state cannot be known in advance of starting.

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nTask

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Velocity chart is a widely known tool in the project management arena. A velocity chart is a great way of forecasting project completion rate and keeping an eye on the progress of your team. In this article, we will give you a rundown of velocity charts and how you can use them for your benefit.

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Scrum.org

MARCH 22, 2021

They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP as well as Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master as well as interviewing dozens of Scrum Master candidates on behalf of my clients. Question 39: Volatile Velocity. Agile Metrics. What might the possible reasons be?

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Leading Agile

JUNE 29, 2022

We find that the backlogs that Agile teams frequently operate from appear as a thematic list of items that the product owner wants built. These macro-projects may span multiple sprints and prevent the teams from producing increments of working, tested product each sprint. It doesn’t have to be this way. Rethinking Backlogs.

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Scrum.org

MAY 20, 2020

“Our problem is that we can’t plan Sprints accurately with velocity,” he said. Some Sprints, our velocity is really high, in others, we barely achieve anything.”. Perhaps this team just needed some time to understand what their measure of velocity meant to them (they were using story points).

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 20, 2023

Work breakdown structure Product breakdown structure Organizational breakdown structure Risk breakdown structure Resource breakdown structure Cost breakdown structure. Here are some examples: Budget baseline Milestone schedule Scope baseline Performance measurement baseline. The project deliverable is a new app.

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ProjectManager.com

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When illustrating the work remaining for the entire project, the chart is called a product burndown. However, if the actual work line is below the ideal work line, there is less work left than had been predicted and the project is ahead of schedule. It’s a great way to see the velocity history of the project.

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nTask

MAY 19, 2021

One of which is the Agile metrics; Agile metrics are a source of measuring productivity across several stages of the SDLC. With the help of these metrics, companies can keep track of their team’s performance and also, assess the overall quality of the end product. Predictability. What Are Agile Metrics? Quality of work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Good for people who have come from a predictive, linear project management background and who want to take their first steps into understanding the complex world of iterative project management. Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products by Jim Highsmith. Buy on Amazon. Buy on Amazon. Agile Practice Guide.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

A desire for predictability and standardization across the organization can drive this. Metrics-driven management : Management might focus on measurable outputs, such as story points or velocity, to assess a Scrum team’s performance. Micromanagement : Excessive oversight that prevents team members from self-managing.

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Scrum.org

JANUARY 9, 2023

Guaranteed : Professional Scrum Product Owner w/ PSPO I Certificate — January 23-26, 2023. TL; DR: A ChatGPT Job Interview for a Scrum Master Position. Can a large language model, not specializing in anything “agile,” pass a screening interview for a Scrum Master position? Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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Leading Agile

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

New Paper Improving Enterprise-Level Predictability With Agile Get it Now. But the truth is that one of the most common goals organizations have for Transformation is actually predictability. Yet while executives ask for predictable results and outcomes, Agilists tend to think you can’t get predictable while being Agile.

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Planio

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In the best-case scenario, Agile metrics like sprint burndown charts, velocity, and cumulative flow diagrams are used to reduce confusion and show team progress (or bottlenecks). Velocity chart. What is the purpose of a velocity chart? The benefits of velocity charts. Some examples include burndown charts and velocity.

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Planview

JANUARY 19, 2023

How does delivery become results, and how are those results measured? VSM measures the end-to-end speed throughput and efficiency of delivery across all the people and processes involved, from planning to delivery. Are the right objectives being focused on? Maximizing ROI requires end-to-end connection.

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NimbleWork

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Comprehensive requirements and design documentation provide a high level of predictability and control. One of the key ideas behind Agile is to deliver high-quality and working software products quickly. For instance, the structured waterfall approach may be more productive for repetitive assignments with predictable results.

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Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

The unit of measurement is hours or story points. Putting it in clear and crispy words, Velocity is the average amount of work the scrum team completed during a sprint, usually measured in story points. Velocity determines how much a team can deliver and in how much duration. so that it helps in defining product quality.

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Leading Agile

MAY 17, 2021

Velocity, while seemingly a simple measure of team output, is quite often one of the most misconstrued metrics by organizations new to Agile ways of working – by both managers and the teams themselves. The team executes on the iteration and ends up with a pool of completed stories/tasks. Those deltas would be discussed during retro.

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Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

This will help to ensure they are remaining productive throughout the whole project. In the agile or scrum framework, a burndown chart helps to recognize completed work by measuring the project completion rate. You can also use this chart to record your team’s velocity and predict their performance.

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nTask

MARCH 9, 2022

Newton is the SI unit of force, the current is measured in amperes, and the temperature has three measurements; Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Don’t worry, we won’t teach you Physics today, but think about it, we have standard units to measure almost everything on this planet, so what about our efforts?

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Leading Agile

MAY 5, 2022

Without an organized backlog, teams can’t deliver regular increments of working, tested product. Backlogs are also necessary to measure the scope of the teams, and how much work they can complete during a given sprint. Building a stable velocity is essential to becoming more predictable and adaptable in the marketplace.

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Scrum.org

MAY 17, 2022

The sample included Scrum Masters and people who frequently interact with them, like Product Owners, managers, and even a few developers. Negotiating with customers and Product Owners about their expectations and the capacity of teams to meet those expectations (27%). Protecting the team against interference from management (27%).

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Wrike

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Looking for a more accurate way to forecast projects, predict effort, and manage resources? Making a velocity chart in Agile is one of the easiest ways to do all of that and more. What is velocity in Agile? Velocity in the traditional sense means the speed at which something takes place.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

An agile coach might assert, with justification, that true value lies in the product increment and not in throughput, velocity, or other proxy measures. Sprint Planning is another occasion when an irredeemably scattered brain, delinquent in mathematical measure, can be forced into jackboots and expected to crunch numbers.

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Agilemania

MAY 5, 2021

This will help to ensure they are remaining productive throughout the whole project. In the agile or scrum framework, a burndown chart helps to recognize completed work by measuring the project completion rate. You can also use this chart to record your team’s velocity and predict their performance.

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Leading Agile

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Are you trying to get software into production faster? Predictability. You want to be able to charge for the product sooner, and realize revenue faster. Product Fit. You want to know you are building the right product for your customers. It’s great to have a DevOps initiative. But what are you doing? Cost Savings.

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Leading Agile

MARCH 31, 2021

Creating an ecosystem where teams with the appropriate skills and resources are able to organize around a well-prioritized backlog to build working, tested product sounds simple but can quickly become mired in the nuances and details that manifest as all sorts of complexities in product development organizations.

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Gunther Verheyen

MAY 23, 2019

From the Scrum Guide (Sprint Planning): The input to this meeting is the Product Backlog, the latest product Increment, projected capacity of the Development Team during the Sprint, and past performance of the Development Team. For many organizations the availability and usage of their products and services is life-critical.

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Scrum.org

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Regardless of the business domains or product area, there are some common rules that may devastate your efforts toward agility. . What's more, I observed the huge difference in Agile adoption in many companies depending on the department or product. First of all, we need to underline that the Agile Transformation never ends.

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Leading Agile

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A primary cause of an organization’s lack of predictability, lack of quality, all the problems they have, is the inability to balance capacity and demand. It worsens the lack of predictability by interfering with near term commitments. To combat this, we can design organizations around capabilities or products.

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