Jan 21, 2018
The Software Process and Measurement Cast 478 features our interview with Evan Leybourn. Evan is back to discuss his new venture, The Business Agility Institute. Agile is not just for software anymore!
Bio
Evan is the Founder and CEO of the Business Agility Institute; an international membership body to both champions and supports the next generation of organizations. Companies that are agile, innovative and dynamic - perfectly designed to thrive in today’s unpredictable markets. We connect leaders across industries and regions to share their experiences and insights with each other. Our flagship event, the Business Agility Conference will run in New York from March 14th. Evan is also the author of Directing the Agile Organisation and will soon be publishing his next book on #noprojects.
Business Agility Institute: http://businessagility.institute/
Business Agility Conference: http://businessagilityconference.com/
Directing the Agile Organisation: http://amzn.to/2D7SStK
Re-Read Saturday News
This week we tackled Chapter 11 of Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction by Daniel S. Vacanti. Chapter 11 is titled Interpreting Cycle Time Scatterplots. Visualization and patterns are a powerful way of visualizing data. Remember to buy your copy today and read along, and we will be back next week!
Previous Installments
Introduction and Game Plan
Week 2: Flow, Flow Metrics, and Predictability
Week 3: The Basics of Flow Metrics
Week 4: An Introduction to Little’s Law
Week 6: Workflow Metrics and CFDs
Week 8: Conservation of Flow, Part I
Week 9: Conservation of Flow, Part II
Week 11: Introduction to Cycle Time Scatterplots
Week 12: Cycle Time Histograms
Week 13: Interpreting Cycle Time Scatterplots
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Next SPaMCAST
SPaMCAST 478
will feature our essay, “You Know it is Virtual Agile When …”
Just because someone says they are agile or are doing
stand-ups doesn’t mean they really have embraced agile.
We will also have columns from Steve Tendon who brings his Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban (buy a copy here) to the cast. Also, Jon M Quigley will return with his column, Alpha and Omega of Product Development.