Flow Metrics for Scrum Teams
Flow Metrics for Scrum Teams
Because story points were never a part of Scrum anyway
About the Book
Is it a 5 or a 13? Or an XL?’ If you're the kind of person tired of these conversations, we've got something for you. This book is a practical guide to leave behind wasteful guesstimation and use revolutionary science from the 1600s instead! Well, not that revolutionary we guess. But for some strange reason, using probability mathematics within Scrum is still new. So we made a book to help you save the time you now spend planning, giving you more time for doing. All in a language your customer understands: time. We present to you: Flow Metrics for Scrum Teams.
Table of Contents
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Why This Book
- Thanks
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Chapter 1 - Let’s Begin
- What Is Flow?
- Setting Up To Measure Flow
- Conclusion
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Chapter 2 - The Basic Metrics of Flow
- Work In Progress
- Cycle Time
- Work Item Age
- Throughput
- Data Collection and Calculation
- Randomness
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 3 - Probabilistic Thinking
- The End of Determinism
- The Flaw of Averages
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 4 - Two Charts
- The Cycle Time Scatterplot
- The Most Important Chart That You Have Never Heard Of (And How to Use It)
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 5 - Sprint Planning, Part I
- What Can Be Done In This Sprint?
- MCS in Sprint Planning
- The Language of Forecasting
- But What About Complexity?
- Endnotes
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Chapter 6 - Sprint Planning, Part II
- Right Sizing
- Tooling
- Drastically Reduce Planning Time
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 7 - The Daily Scrum
- The SLE
- Percentiles as Intervention Triggers
- What If PBIs Aren’t Flowing As Expected
- A Daily Scrum Example
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 8 - The Sprint Review
- What Did We Learn Last Sprint?
- When Is It Done?
- What Can Be Done?
- Now What?
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 9 - The Sprint Retrospective
- The Triangle
- Clusters of Dots
- Gaps
- Internal and External Variability
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 10 - Tooling
- What To Look For In A Tool
- Red Flags
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
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Chapter 11 - Getting Started
- Starting Steps
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
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