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Velocity (plus, plus) - Beefing up the Agile dashboard
First of all, how in the world did I temporarily forget how to spell out the ‘+’ symbol? It ‘looked’ correct with two s’s; sad, really. Earlier, I hinted at some other measures to add as _support_ to the Agile toolkit . To be clear, the raw measure that matters the most when it comes to understanding which features and whether our joint ALTERthought-client teams are delivering against plan is velocity. Period. That being said, while velocity is a good indicator of the effectiveness of the particular team/project/organization, in and of itself it does not convey rich information about the internal workings of your team and software development processes. So, velocity must be coaxed, teased, and massaged to uncover facts about the software development effort that helps satisfy a key tenet of Agile: to continuously improve. In fact, at times, velocity may be a sort of lagging indicator of what may be transpiring with regard to the process and organizational dynamics (factors the tremendously impact project success). continue reading… »
posted 19 June 2009 @ 14:07 by sunjay » 0 Comments
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Velocity is not enough, expand the Agile dashboard …
So, one of the most powerful tools in the Agile Project Management Manifesto is the concept of velocity (and burn charts). Fundamentally, what you’re measuring is what your team is accomplishing over what it planned to accomplish. While this is a terrifically succinct and clarifying — and indeed the bottom line — with regard to […]
16 June 2009 » read » 3 Comments
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Speaking @ Tyson’s Corner PMI Luncheon Group
On Tuesday March 24th, Sunjay Pandey will be speaking at the Project Management Institute’s Tyson’s Corner Area Luncheon Group . Sunjay will be reprising a topic entitled The Switching Gears Factor which describes portions of ALTERthought’s IT Governance approaches - particularly estimation and budgeting. In this session, Sunjay will discuss how the multi-tasking arising from […]
