How to increase certainty of estimates for a project
Learning how to deliver projects while working in Agile is hard. Estimation with any certainty is even harder. Here is a lightning talk on how to increase your certainty when providing and delivering to an estimate.
Which Performance Metric is best?
Measuring team performance can be either beneficial or potentially damaging, depending on what you choose to measure. Teams are heavily affected by how they are being measured, and their behaviour will change, for the better or worse, as a result.
This article and video goes into some detail about the various performance metrics available and what they mean.
What are our Values? What will we do differently?
By using a really simple template (linked), you can reflect upon how you are going as a team, and then how to improve things for your future.
Discuss and decide what you value as a team, and from that starting position, decide what changes you can make to improve those aspects.
This is a great team-building exercise, and one that creates an opportunity to constantly reinforce what makes your team a great one.
Benefits and challenges of running a Centre of Excellence
This article and video discusses the benefits and possible side-effects of creating a Centre of Excellence, and helps you to navigate the potential challenges.
What is a Delivery Lead?
Delivery Leads bring greater certainty, maturity and delivery capability to your Agile teams. They have advanced delivery knowledge and expertise, and bring a greater focus on outcomes for your teams.
Scrum of Scrums and Adaptive portfolios using Now, Next, Later
Accelerate your planning cycle by moving to Scrum of Scrums and using a Now/Next/Later roadmap.
What is Flow? How are companies going beyond Scrum to deliver faster?
Companies are using Flow to accelerate their software development beyond Scrum.