Agile

Learning Loops and Customer Satisfaction

Many leaders view Net Promoter Score as the standard for measuring customer satisfaction, but by itself NPS is useless for deciding what ought to change to drive improvement. Read this paper to learn how to develop habits that drive improvement in customer outcomes.

Capacity Models in Agile Development

A good capacity model is your secret weapon for improving your ability to deliver value rapidly. This paper describes how capacity models work and steps to develop your own.

Quality, Time, Scope - in the right order

Have you made a clear decision about how to order Quality, Time, and Scope in your organization? If not, you may not be getting the results you want.

Five Habits That Can Accelerate Product Development

Better development habits let your team deliver more value, faster. This paper explores five key habits that the team at Agilent’s Software division adopted to double their productivity and build competitive advantage in the contested market for laboratory informatics.

The Sprint Planning Scorecard Increases Project Predictability

Agile is not just for software anymore. Many companies that develop tangible products – be they hardware or mixed software/hardware systems – are applying techniques, like the sprint scoreboard borrowed from Agile. By combining Agile with traditional processes, they are accelerating programs and delivering winning products.

Sprints and Demos: Twin Beacons of Accountability

Two of the most effective and beneficial of these practices are sprint demos. Powered by these twin aspects of Agile, development teams of all manner of products can increase accountability and make programs faster and more predictable.

Why Retrospectives are a Waste of Time

Preparation is key to a winning retrospective. The most important goals in most programs are time to market, a winning feature set, and quality. The best method is to collect the events that impacted these factors using a timeline.

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What is an Agile Roles and Responsibilities Matrix? A Step-by-Step Guide

A responsibility assignment matrix is a technique for arranging agile team roles. It outlines the responsibilities of each team member by tagging them with one of four labels as follows: R for responsible, A for accountable, C for consulted, and I for informed (RACI). Project managers use RAM to guide scrum teams.

Agile Transformation

Learn about the Agile Transformation Process to smoothly transition from a traditional organization structure and embrace agile practices

Agile Books: Explore the 14 Must-Read Books

Unleash the power of Agile with our handpicked selection of 14 must-read books. Enhance your project management skills, master Scrum methodologies, and transform the way you work.

How to “Control” an Agile Development Project

So-called “Waterfall” or “Phase-Gate” product development methodologies often give management the illusion that they are under control of the project, while they are actually just meddling and slowing it down.

Agile Burndown Graphs

In agile development, the team goes through the whole build/integrate/test cycle with the goal of solving the greatest number of user stories or requirements per build. Tracking the number of user stories completed per build combines many best practices into one easy-to-use system.

Risk Management Matrix

The Risk Management Matrix is an elegant way to anticipate, manage, and mitigate product development risks. The matrix is a table that prompts the team to identify risks, to rate their potential impac...

Project Escalation Map

Clarifies the boundaries and channels of decision making throughout an organization. Empowers teams, and minimizes the time and attention required by senior managers at the project level.

Out-of-Bounds Check

Realigns teams after a project has gone out of scope. Provides the team with a mechanism to conduct a root cause analysis, evaluate alternatives, and recommend a remedy to decision makers.

Deliverable Hit Rate Chart

The Deliverable Hit Rate Chart monitors the progress of completed tasks against a target over time. It is a graph that indicates whether programs are staying on schedule by tracking the rate of task c...

Boundary Conditions Diagram

Identifies the critical elements of a project and defines the conditions which must exist for a team to ship a product to market. Enables a team to plan and execute with minimal management intervention.