Templates
Introduction to Agile – “Let’s Talk Agile” Slideshow
A very succint and well assembled Introduction to Agile by Denise Caron.
This slideshow will be appreciated by those new to Agile and those responsible for ‘selling Agile’ alike.
0 comments | Read moreAgile Epic Board – Epic Card Template
Although I use this board to track our development programme across multiple products, teams and sprints, the Epic Board can also be a very useful project management tool. See The Epic Board – An Essential Project Management Tool.
6 comments | Read moreSprint Backlog Template with Objective-Level Burndowns
A Sprint Backlog Template is used to track progress against Sprint Commitments.
This Sprint Backlog template is slightly more complex than your bog-standard template as it also allows you to track Stretch Tasks and Sprint Progress at a Category/Objective-Level.
4 comments | Read moreHow Agile Are You? (The Survey!)
How Agile Are You? A question originally posed by Nokia, shortly followed by Kelly Waters of All About Agile. This post contains a downloadable template you can use to measure yourself against a list of 42 criteria. See how you measure up!
3 comments | Read moreScrum Product Backlog Template (with Priority Overview)
A Product Backlog is a list of top-level requirements that are usually associated with a single Project or Product.
7 comments | Read moreThe Agile Balanced Scorecard – Tracking the Reliability of an Agile Software Development Team
Reliability is one of the four performance measures that you should consider when building an Agile Balanced Scorecard. The other three are Value, Velocity and Quality.
2 comments | Read moreCalculating the ROI of Implementing Agile Practices – Agile increases output and efficiency
So, it’s no secret that one of the big benefits of ‘going agile’ is the ability/opportunity to track and optimise team performance.
The big question from a programme management and business perspective is:
How do you measure the operational costs/savings associated with improved efficiency or increased disruption within an Agile Software Development team?
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