Category: Agile
Mastering Agile spillover – analysis and strategic solutions
In the world of Agile development, one of the most persistent challenges squads and teams face is the issue of spillover. Spillover represents work that was planned for a sprint but couldn’t be completed within its time frame. While occasional spillover is inevitable, chronic spillover signals deeper problems that can derail your squad’s effectiveness and credibility. This article explores why spillover matters, how to analyse it, and most importantly, what strategic approaches you can implement to reduce it.
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Automating Jira sprints
This post describes the advantages of automating Jira sprint creation for Agile leaders, emphasizing enhanced efficiency, consistency, and improved long-term planning. It features a script authored by Andrew and hosted on GitHub, enabling the creation of single or multiple sprints across multiple Jira projects. The script ensures standardized sprint naming, start/end dates, and times, and facilitates the retrieval of SprintIDs for seamless integration with JQL and Confluence.
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Definition of Ready (DoR)
The prerequisites for an agile issue to enter an iteration or sprint, ensuring readiness for work commencement. Detailing ten key characteristics with recommendations, noting possible variations for epics, tasks, and sub-tasks.
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Four days…
How agile and agile leadership concepts can be applied to elite motor sport. #agile #agileleadership #leadership #systemsthinking
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Re-employing agile – embracing agility outside traditional software development
On Friday, 8 October 2021 I gave an online talk for the Access Agile Freestival on my experiences with “re-employing” agile – how agile can be embraced by non-software development teams. This page contains a video recording of the talk plus other resources including an audio-only version of the talk together with the slides I presented and a transcript of my speaker notes.
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Agile – building a high performing team
Building a high performing team starts with careful observation, dedication and commitment.
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Agile – how to document a "proper" handover
How you leave tells you something about a person, about their passion and about what’s important to them. It can be a simple act like pushing your chair in after a meeting, pushing all the chairs in, cleaning the whiteboards even if you didn’t use them, leaving something in a better state than you found it. Below is the text of my handover notes published on Confluence ten days before our team was disbanded…
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Why Agile and why change?
Why Agile is so appealing, why we need to change and why change is so threatening.
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Saying goodbye: the hardest
Saying “goodbye” to an awesome team is so very, very hard. What have we learned? I’ll warrant more about ourselves through each other than we’d have learned alone. Two quotes have been swimming in my mind tonight, one from the Bard and one from a seminal film.
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Self-Organizing Agile Teams Don’t Just Happen by Chance – Mountain Goat Software
Self-Organizing Agile Teams Don’t Just Happen by Chance – Mountain Goat Software ...
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