I was asked this the other day by a scrum master at my current organization. For disclosure, I’ve been involved with Agile delivery for about 8 years or so. I started out with Scrum and have been involved with Scrum, XP and Kanban ever since. I’ve been a developer, a delivery leader, a coach and …
This keeps coming up in quite a few conversations I’ve been having lately. Does the PMO have a place in an Agile Software Delivery team/company/project etc? I have a couple of opinions on this and its really an either/or. If your organization currently has a Project Management Office and you have a strong hierarchical reporting structure, …
When looking at how to measure a team’s predictability, it’s often common to start with their capacity. In the case of a Scrum team (or even some Kanban teams) story points are a good place to start. What I’ll usually look for is, what is a team’s average velocity. (Sum of story points accepted / …