A Value Stream is a path through your organization. It leads from the start of an idea to the delivery of that idea...
Value Plays
Success comes not from the volume of content delivered but from the business value obtained.
For an organization to be successful and to scale that success it need to understand what value is and to deliver value efficiently and repeatably.
These Plays look at techniques to ensure that value is being maximised.
Velocity as a tool not a weapon
There is a challenge to assess how backlog maps to timeboxes. How can we assess how deep in that backlog we might...
What is Planning in Agile development?
If we are to work in an Agile way, we need to approach planning and tracking differently. Development is seen as a...
Predictability is a trade-off not an add-on
Can we take a successful Agile development team and "add predictability"? Are teams "failing" if what they deliver...
Schrödinger’s cat and software productivity
Productivity is a challenging concept. Like Schrödinger's cat, software teams can seem both productive and...
How to optimise a Value Stream
Value Stream Mapping gives us a tool to assess where the waste is occurring. In this example, we will work through how...
Avoiding local optimisation with Value Streams
We want to ensure a flow of work through the organisation. Value Stream Mapping gives us a tool to assess where to...
Two steps to backlog refinement
Managing and maintaining the backlog is known as “backlog refinement”. This does not happen by chance and needs the...
Leading with questions
Increasingly the role of a modern leader is not to answer questions but to raise them. Questioning drives...