3. Agile work management.md

Agile work management

Benefits

• Allows for faster delivery of product features to your customer
  • Leads to increased customer satisfaction.
• Reduced risks since you have small feature releases carried out frequently
• Predictable costs and schedule
• Easily allows for change

Traditional Waterfall Model

• Stages
  1. Requirements: Business analysts gets all requirements from customers.
  2. Design stage: Peers & architects design application
  3. Code: Dev teams work with application
  4. System testing
  5. User Acceptance Testing
  6. Software release
• Problems
  • Release date can be far into the future.
    • Can be redundant even before release as business can change
  • Bugs & issues detected during the testing phase, it can delay the release as you repeat stages.
  • Software may not comply with the requirements
    • E.g. during coding stage design requirements can change which will not be reflected.
    • As result, user may not get what he/she wants

Scrum

1. Have a vision / goal
2. User stories: describes what customer / end user wants
3. Product backlog
   • Start taking tasks from user stories
4. Pick tasks from product backlog to sprint backlog
5. Work with them during a sprint
   • Sprint = 1-2 weeks
   • Sprint results in working functionality
6. Retrospective & review meetings

Reporting (Project metrics)

• Important to avoid frustrations such as late deliveries
• Understand how your work items are progressing in terms of development, testing, release
  • Are work items being tracked to completion?
  • Are feature requests being tracked?
  • Time remaining for key work items
  • Time spend on work items.
• Normally use cumulative flow diagrams to monitor the flow of work.
• 📝 Primary metrics are:
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  • Cycle time
    • How long it takes to complete one production cycle
    • Calculated by work completion time - start of doing work
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  • Lead time
    • Measures work completion time - work requested time
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  • Burndown: Shows remaining work within a specific time period.
    • Burnup is exactly like burndown, except that it plots work completed, rather than work remaining.
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  • Velocity
    • Indication of how much work a team can complete during a sprint based.
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  • Cumulative Flow Diagram
    • See the count of work items over time of a Kanban board.
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