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Using Velocity to measure the Productivity of an Agile Development Team

Although you can not use Velocity to measure the productivity of one team compared to another, you can use velocity to help track the relative productivity of the same team from one sprint to another assuming the value of a point stays the same over time.

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Agile Programme Management Increases Flexibility

There are numerous benefits to adopting Agile ideals and introducing Scrum/Kanban-esque practices at a programme level. One of these benefits is increased flexibility, which in turn offers improved output, reduced time-to-market and increased value.

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Does Agile Programme Management Exist?

So, the following questions are justified:

* What is Agile Programme Management?
* What is Agile Portfolio Management?
* Is it possible to efficiently and effectively manage a Programme of Software Development Projects in an Agile way?

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Agile Programme Management and Epic Boards…

The more I use the Epic Board, the more I love it.

Make no mistake about it, I don’t think this tool should (or could) replace a Scrum Task Board – it’s totally different…

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Lean, Scrum, Scrum of Scrums and Epic Boards!

So, when do you use Scrum practices, when should you consider Lean practices and when should you consider using Epic Boards?

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Introducing the Agile Epic Board

The inspiration for this tool was the good old Scrum Task Board, a hugely useful Collaboration, Planning and Project Management tool. However, the strength and the limitation of Task Boards rest with the fact that they are focused at an iteration level. Cards on the board represent stories and tasks being addressed by a single team during a single iteration.

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Doing Scrum properly isn’t always the answer

var dzone_style=”2″;I have worked on quite a number of Agile projects (+100) over the past few years – usually taking on the role of either Scrum Master or Product Owner. I have worked on projects being delivered by a single team with one Product Owner.  I have also worked on projects being delivered by multiple [...]

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