Lean and Agile development methods emphasize planning on five different levels. These methods can generate amazing high-level vision and 3-year plans when creating long term goals. It can also plan and commit to lower-level detailed iteration and daily planning. Yet when it comes to creating release plans, the methods often degrade into a best guess by the team, architect, or project manager. Inaccurate release plans are a challenging problem for industries where the stakeholders’ capacity to take frequent releases is small or non-existent. Predicting a release and sticking with it becomes vital when your stakeholders only take releases once or twice a year. In this talk, I demonstrate how to use your team’s historical data to accurately predict a release using the ActionableAgile™ tool. Monte Carlo method demonstrations are shown to forecast releases by date or number of features. We also review Cumulative Flow Diagrams and how to interpret them to identify areas of process improvement.
Agile Evangelist
I am a data-driven, process improvement, and true-agile convert! As a Lead Development Project Manager at Cerner Corporation, I've worked with a lot of teams on agile projects and seen it all. As I've transitioned over to Kanban and studied the Toyota Principles, I've come to appreciate efficiency and flow and started embracing the kaizen mindset in all that I do. When not working on Security projects at Cerner or helping to coach teams, I am at the mercy of my twin three-year-olds.