Agile IQ®
Optimising Flow
Influencing Behaviour. Secondary Factor.
Overview
From investments top-down from Lean-Agile portfolio through to team-level delivery and releases, an organisation must understand its value stream end-to-end to optimise the flow of work and the flow of value.
Learning areas for flow
Evolving Task Boards to Kanban
Optimise flow of work through upgrading the team’s visual board to Kanban
INVEST
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single Sprint?
Muri
Learn to improve ‘overburdenning’ the team and its members to increase throughput of work.
Slicing Stories
How do you slice Product Backlog items so that they can be delivered in a single Sprint?
Stop ‘Waterfalling’ Sprints
How do you stop Stories from “rolling” over to the next Sprint?
Three Cs
The three Cs format is the simplest way for teams to turn traditional requirements into good User Stories
Video: How to do value stream mapping
Learn the basics of value stream mapping with Helen Beal, industry leader in DevOps evolution, who explains how value stream mapping.
Video: Mob Programming with Woody Zuill
Learn how to work in a continual state of cross-functional flow
Video: What is Cost of Delay?
Cost of Delay is the impact, financial or even risk, to value for a customer and to business.
Video: Yuval Yeret on Improving Flow using Kanban
Yuval Yeret answers questions on flows inside and outside Scrum from a Lean and Kanban perspective
Visualising work and work in-progress with Kanban
What is Kanban? Is it more than just post-it notes on a wall? Is it a conspiracy to sell sharpies? Aren’t there apps we can use instead?
Working with urgent, unplanned work
Requests at the last minute by other areas of the organisation, or even external clients and stakeholders, can be easily managed if you know how.
