classes of service - Yeret Agility

Making promises you can keep WITHOUT Scrum Sprint Commitment using Classes of Service

By Yuval Yeret|2012-07-02T18:12:53-04:00July 2, 2012|Scrum, ScrumBan|

How can we make promises we can keep without a commitment to the sprint content? So I convinced you that the Scrum Sprint Commitment is not such a great idea. I convinced you it is mainly there for learning. You want to move to a commitment to try to meet the forecast instead of committing to deliver the whole forecast. But your Product Owner has a real problem with this. He understands all this learning rationale but his stakeholders want [...]

Do we need stack ranking in a kanban system?

By Yuval Yeret|2012-06-07T23:44:28-04:00June 7, 2012|kanban|

I want to talk about a kanban system design issue today. Do we need a way to portray full stack ranking of cards throughout a kanban system or is it enough to see stack ranking per lane ? To elaborate - sometimes it feels necessary to convey the priority of cards and have a way for that priority to travel with the card throughout the system. A way to achieve this is to allocate a running priority such as 10, [...]

Collaborating with specialized roles using kanban classes of service

By Yuval Yeret|2010-11-17T23:15:50-05:00November 17, 2010|Agile Testing, kanban|

I want to share a solution I came up with together with a team of performance / non-functional testing, working in a product group in a large enterprise. This solution deals with the challenge of bridging the principles of "Those who build the system test it", "Non functional testing is a collaboration role", and the fact that specialized roles such as performance testers are usually stretched to cover the demand for their services. This group wanted Performance testing for [...]