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Talks: All your Story Points are Belong to us

Abstract In this engaging talk, Jose Casal revisits the purpose of producing estimates, challenges some common myths about our popular estimation techniques, considers how to assess if your estimation process is really working for you, and finally, introduces how (and why) flow metrics can produce better forecasting and estimation. Say bye to Velocity. Presentation History …

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Talks: Seeking Nirvana – Predictability in a Complex World

Abstract As Simon Wardley says: โ€œpredictability is a measure of how accurately we can anticipate somethingโ€ In life and in business, human beings struggle to deal with uncertainty. When we ask people why they engage in agile transformations, change programmes, digital initiatives, scaling projects, and things like that, they will often say that they want …

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Can Kanban and Scrum work together?

Students and clients ask us โ€œCan Kanban and Scrum work together?โ€ all the time. The answer is an emphatic, โ€œOf course!โ€ However, what do you mean by โ€œKanbanโ€? If you are talking about Kanban as a strategy for optimizing the flow of value through a process that uses a visual, work-in-progress limited pull system, then …

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Talks: Scrum and Kanban – Battle Royale or Save the World?

Abstract One of the most common questions we get asked on training courses is “Scrum or Kanban?” We hear phrases like, “We dropped Kanban for Scrum” or “We moved away from Scrum to Kanban”. It seems that people pit them against each other, subconsciously at least. It doesn’t have to be this way. During this …

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The Art of Queuing

During the Summer of 2017, I went to the famed land of theme parks and queuing that is Orlando. Of course, you can pay a little extra to avoid the waitโ€Šโ€”โ€Šwhich also impacts the size of the queues. You find times where even this doesnโ€™t help though or youโ€™ve used up your allowance for the …

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Ticket Size Does Not Matter

In practically every training class and consultancy work we do in Actineo there are two ideas that someone will bring up at some point: Ticket size matters Tickets need to be of the same size To me, those are two myths. I tend to argue that โ€œticket size does NOT matterโ€œ, although what I really …

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Talks: The Emergence of Business Agility and why it is not an option

Abstract By now, we all know that software is at the core of most businesses. The world of business continues to accelerate at a pace that appears to be increasing. The key competitive advantage appears to have moved from product innovation and development to business model innovation. Yet, most companies are still trying to run …

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