Agile Issue Management for Projects and Programmes

Scrum is great at handling immediate issues or in this case, they’re more commonly referred to as ‘Impediments’…

The Agile Balanced Scorecard – Tracking the Quality of an Agile Software Development Team

Quality is one of the four performance measures that you should consider when building an Agile Balanced Scorecard. The other three are Value, Velocity and Reliability.

Agile Balanced Scorecard – Measuring the effectiveness of an Agile Software Development Team

Velocity does by definition assume a degree of quality output by any Agile Software Development Team, by the virtue of the fact that you should only count accepted Story Points towards your velocity.

With that said, there are many other factors that need to be considered when assessing the overall effectiveness of the team.

Calculating 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?

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 teams, [...]