My favorite Excel-based Agile Backlog Templates

By Yuval Yeret|2011-11-16T21:13:25-05:00November 16, 2011|Blog, Metrics, Scrum|

(September 2015 update – This is actually quite outdated. Most people actually use an agile lifecycle management tool when they move on from post its… so I haven’t recently looked at any of those templates or others that might be out there… Just thought it would be fair to say that considering this is the most popular blog post on the site…) People frequently ask me for simple Excel-based templates they can start with. Here is the list of references [...]

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Scrum Sprint Commitment Rant

By Yuval Yeret|2011-10-13T10:55:09-04:00October 13, 2011|kanban, Metrics, Scrum|

Going on a Rant If there's one thing that makes me mad whenever I see it is teams abusing the commitment concept in scrum. I've been on a rampage against dysfunctional sprint commitments for a while now, but lately my thoughts have crystalized a bit, especially when I had a chance to discuss this with Jim benson, Alan Shalloway, Chris Hefley and Jon Terry last week at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011. Background So what is the problem? Well quite often [...]

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Can we PLEASE have some simple measures for our Product Development group?

By Yuval Yeret|2010-09-24T15:45:24-04:00September 24, 2010|Export dec 2022, kanban, Metrics|

A lot of our clients at AgileSparks ask us how to measure their effectiveness. Some of them are already using Agile styles of product development, others are not yet there, and another important variant is the Enterprise with mixed ways of doing things, that wants to get more visibility, and use measures as a way to drive towards improvement. As we all know, we need to be very careful what we measure, and on top of that a lot of measurements [...]

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Kanban early warning using a predictive variant of SPC

By Yuval Yeret|2010-09-19T22:53:46-04:00September 19, 2010|kanban, Metrics|

A Confession. While I'm a great fan of using SPC charts to explore specific cycle times and reduce variation / continuously improve a Kanban System (a great blog by benjamin mitchell), I'm only seeing preliminary results in the field with teams I'm coaching. The main reasons are lack of tooling, lack of incentive to manually manage this, and the fact that teams are not yet mature enough. I'm hoping this will change in the near future. With that in mind, a [...]

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