When examining real workflow data, there's a common pattern: clusters of tasks that have aged significantly, some clearly stagnating beyond recognition acceptable timeframes. These cases point to one of the most important yet very often overlooked metrics in flow management: WIP Aging. WIP (Work In Progress) Aging measures the elapsed time that a work item has … Continue reading Boosting Efficiency with WIP Aging Insights and Tools
TL;DR: Forecasting team Throughput is super-easy and much more reliable than traditional methods, if you limit your work in Progress. Reliability confirmed by research data. We've already extensively covered Throughput (one of the flow metrics), how to analyze Throughput data from 3 key angles. And why it's better for forecasting than storypoints. Now let's get … Continue reading Monte Carlo Simulation: Forecasting Throughput and Project Timelines
So we've been measuring story points estimate and throughput through the last 5 sprints, and they really do show approximately similar results 🙂 makes you think why do have an additional story points layer on top of the simple throughput? 🙂 Just as Vasco Duarte told 🙂
Hey guys, good news - Minsk has it's own Atlassian User Group now, me & StiltSoft kicked out the first event, gathered 60 RSVP's in just one week, and had an amazing time in the beautiful city of Minsk, Belarus! Hosted an event in an awesome Eventspace.by at the old factory! AUG Minsk, SkuVault-Jira - Speech … Continue reading Minsk AUG Hosted!
So we've survived Ufa Atlassian User Group, the very first meetup, with 17 people visiting our office to hear about jira, confluence, bitbucket and other atlassian products 🙂 We've discussed how Jira helped us in reflecting SkuVault development processes, and how do we keep documentation on the feature in Confluence, until it's released, and … Continue reading Ufa AUG #1. Wrap Up
So as you know my speciality is distributed teams 🙂 This post is about what changes does the agile communication face (and scrum in particular), when it's adjusted to the distributed teams. This is my experience, I don't assume this is a silver bullet, but such approach works for me for the last 5 years … Continue reading Agile Communication in Distributed Teams (with no overlapping hours)
This time it was all about requirements. And we hosted the event at our cozy SkuVault office: Eliciting and preparing requirements from gathering data till development: Oleg Gumerov (PO at SMENA - solutions provider for a big delivery service) shared his experience on how they do it in SMENA.io; Nur Ibragimov (Head Analyst at modulbank) … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup #4
2 weeks after we had the actual meetup, here's the follow-up post 🙂 Topics this time: Keynote by me on cynefin and how it fits our company projects. Had some discussion & arguing on applicacy of cynefin when it comes to rough development times, migrations, firefighting-based development. Overall, model was introduced, and the fact-and-experience-based arguments … Continue reading Ufa IT Management Meetup (24.10.17)
Me & my colleague basically decided to attend Agile Greece and Agile Turkey, and then exchange opinions and knowledge gathered there. Big advantage of my trip was Dave Snowden's keynote, whom I wanted to catch after the speech and bore to death with silly questions 🙂 Agile Turkey Itself The conference (1-day conference, october 19th) … Continue reading Agile Turkey Summit 2017
Small and duct-tapey resolution for the time, when you have an All -> [statusName] JIRA workflow transition. By default, it results in the following: Default Ticket Screen shows transition from current to current status, among others. So e.g., you have an In Progress ticket, you have the transition to the very same In Progress. To … Continue reading Jira: removing transition from current status to itself (if All -> transition is turned on)
Marat Kiniabulatov | Agile Coach, OKR, PMO 