What is dragging down your agile teams

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What Is Dragging Down Your Agile Teams? Organizational Drag and Agile Stream Framework


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Where Is The Drag In Your SDLC?

Sprint Impediments

Remember! Work can’t flow faster than the slowest process.

Organization

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Please Rank These Impediments

• Simulation •  Managers supporting three teams •  Team raises 11 impediments over 4

days. •  Your team can close two impediments

per day. •  Your goal is to decide which

impediments to address first.

Time-box 6 Minutes


What Was Your Strategy?

What was your confidence level?


Can You Quantify Effects


Meet Organizational Drag Metrics Empirical Approach For Managing Impediments (Agile Stream Framework)


Daily Drag Index (DDI)

Daily Drag Index allows you to rank impediments in different ways based on what is important to you!

I want to build the most for the money

SDC(d)

I want to build the most critical ones first

SLA.SDC(d)

I want to build the most business value

BV.SDC(d)


Story Drag Coefficient (SDC) Scalable agile-friendly metric that captures the effect of

organizational drag (impediment) on teams’ plan to deliver work (story points) within a time-box (sprint).

Team A Team B

Team C

ISP TPS L SDC A 4 20 9 2.22% B 4 20 4 5.00% C 4 20 14 1.43%

SDC = Team Planned Stories (TPS) x Sprint Length (L)

Impeded Story Points (ISP)


Active Stream Board

Active Stream Board is a decision-making tool that enable managers to quantify and rank and impediments based on business strategies.


Its Your Turn To Try! Active Stream Board

Time-box 6 Minutes

• Simulation •  Managers supporting three teams •  Team raises 11 impediments over 4

days. •  Your team can close two impediments

per day. •  Your goal is to decide which

impediments to address first.

Choose a Strategy

Utilization Business Value

SLA Combination?


How Confident Were You This Time

Around?


Let’s Quantify Impediment Effects


Inspect and Adapt • Use Cumulative Drag to

answer questions •  How much of the Sprint was

eroded by impediments? •  What was the net effect of our

strategy on teams?



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Stream Turbulence Index (STI) • A constant that reflects the planning deviation for a team

based on their actual versus optimal delivery expectation for a time-box (Sprint).

STI = Planned End Day

Forecasted End Day -1


On Stream (Leave alone)

Turbulent Stream (Coach)

Off Stream (Intervene)

Potential Actions


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