Agile Performance Appraisals
For some reason in the last two weeks, we’ve been asked by several people about agile performance appraisals. I guess it’s that time of the year 😉 I’ll be talking about this at the South African Scrum...
View ArticleLean Breakfast
I’ve been thinking about metrics recently. Most people who use Scrum understand velocity. It’s pretty simple. How many points do you complete each sprint on average? As teams move towards more...
View ArticleAgile Performance Reviews
I gave a talk on Agile Performance Reviews at the South African Scrum Gathering. You can find my slides here: Agile Performance Appraisals: SGZA13 Talk from Growing Agile I also blogged about my idea...
View ArticleWhy measuring productivity is bad for business
I recently attended Dan North’s Accelerate Agile course. One of the things he talked about was why measuring productivity is such a terrible idea in software. Although I’ve always known this in my gut,...
View ArticleThe only software metric you need…
This is a continuation from my previous post on ‘Why measuring productivity is bad for business‘ inspired by Dan North’s Accelerated Agile course. Note: This post has been updated based on feedback in...
View ArticleMonthly Retrospective Plan
We hold a retrospective each month, to see how we are doing. We started with the standard retrospective template, but over time we’ve added some of our own components. Here’s an idea of what it looks...
View ArticleInteruptions, Support, Business as usual – how do these work in scrum
Most teams starting out with Scrum understand their backlog and what we called planned work. This is work that everyone grooms together and fully understands. Then there is all the other stuff! We...
View ArticleInvoicing without timesheets
We recently worked with a client who do outsourced software development. They were looking to start using Scrum with a bit more discipline than they had in the past with their own home grown...
View ArticleAssessment – How agile is your testing?
We often see agile teams that have adopted the ceremonies and language of Scrum, but in reality they do waterfall in 2 week increments. One of the easiest ways to notice this is to take a look at how...
View ArticleThe Four Day Work Week
About a year ago, we made a fairly major decision at Growing Agile. We realised we were too busy, so we decided to work less. We committed to only working 4 days a week. The idea was we would take...
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