As a growing company, Cerner Corporation often has a need to develop new teams in order to tackle new challenges. One such team, when it was first established in 2017, was made up of a newly promoted Engineering Manager, a fresh Project Manager, and two Engineers straight out of college. As a new team, they were free to establish their processes. So they set out to be the best Agile-practicing team they could be.
Their first planning meeting was an unmitigated disaster.
In the time since, the team has evolved from a team that could barely plan an iteration into a team that effectively uses Lean, Big Room Planning, and data-driven estimations like Monte Carlo simulations using historical JIRA data.
Join Courtney and Shawn as they take you through the team's journey towards agility. They will go over what went right, what went wrong, and how they fixed it, with a heavy emphasis on how the team learned to be effective at Big Room Planning and forecasting.
Learning Outcomes (That You Can Leverage Tomorrow):
* Deciding what pieces of Scrum and Lean work for you
* Forecasting for Big Room Planning using actual turnaround time data
* Setting up retrospectives with a focus on cycle time
Cerner Corporation, Senior Development Project Manager
Courtney Shar is a Senior Development Project Manager. She has been managing projects for 6 years in both Edge Development and Legacy code bases. She has PMP and ICAgile - ATF certifications.
Engineering Manager, Cerner Corporation
Shawn Scrivner is an Engineering Manager with seven years of engineering experience.