Practices
Capacity Planning
Assess capacity each Sprint to understand what the load is on the team versus how much
Agile IQ®: Transformation Academy ™
Stage Four
Agile IQ® Score: 131-165
Learning Areas: Stage Four
Learning Areas: Stage Four
Flow
Evolving Task Boards to Kanban
Optimise flow of work through upgrading the team’s visual board to Kanban
Guardrails
Improve facilitation with Liberating Structures
Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination and trust.
Backlog management
Making technical debt visible
Data tells a compelling story, but helping stakeholders visualise data in meaningful ways creates an impact
Guardrails
Slicing Stories that won’t finish by the end of the Sprint
Learn to slice Stories that are unlikely to be completed in the Sprint.
Building capability
Succession Planning
Actively create plans for who fills in for key roles at Sprint Planning.
Evidence based management
Using EBM to measure steps toward the Product Goal
Alignment to strategic outcomes is critical for any organisation. EBM helps leaders measure steps toward these
Process
Using metrics in your Retrospectives
Metrics help make your improvement actions repeatable and scalable
Building capability
Video: From T-Shaped to X-Shaped Skills by David Clifford
Deep dive into Tim Brown’s ideas of i-shaped, T-shaped and building X-shaped skills.
Evidence based management
Video: Making OKRs better with EBM
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are a powerful tool for setting and measuring goals, but like
Flow
Video: What is Cost of Delay?
Cost of Delay is the impact, financial or even risk, to value for a customer and
Flow
Video: Yuval Yeret on Improving Flow using Kanban
Yuval Yeret answers questions on flows inside and outside Scrum from a Lean and Kanban perspective
