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Scrum or Kanban

February 27, 2016 by Benjamen

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 …

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PMO in Agile

February 21, 2016 by Benjamen

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, …

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Visualization for Old Metrics, with a Twist

November 16, 2015 by Benjamen

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 / …

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