Visualisation for Agile Teams

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This is a presentation that I did at Agile Tour Chennai 2011. I have added some explanatory text and slides in this version which were not there in the original presentation to compensate for the fact that you can't hear my talk :)For more, visit my blog - http://toolsforagile.com/blog/

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Visualisationfor agile teams

Siddharta Govindarajsiddharta@silverstripesoftware.com@toolsforagile

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Siddharta GovindarajDirector, Silver Stripe Software Pvt Ltd

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toolsforagile.com - Electronic Scrum boards

- Electronic Kanban boards

- Electronic User Story maps

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#1: A team is more effective when they make team level decisions for themselves.

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#2: Make the work visible.

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#3: Visualise the work.

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Please see http://toolsforagile.com/blog/archives/899/visualisation-in-board-designfor a discussion of the next two slides

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Tabular data vs Visualisation

Lets see how much easier visualisation makes it to spot patterns

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Take 10 seconds. Can you see what is different in this data from the previous one?

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Can you see the difference now?

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Dont be stuck with "traditional" scrum boards

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Quick! 10 seconds. Anything jump out at you?

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What about now?

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How would you choose stories for a release from this list?

A flat list of stories doesn't allow you to understand all product dimensions

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Is this a good release plan? How can you tell?

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High Level Flow of Work

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Product Backbone

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Enhancements

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View into business strategy

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Email: siddharta@toolsforagile.comTwitter: @toolsforagile

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