David Anderson
Modern Agile...
...seems to be moving away from team driven estimates, iteration commitments. Josh Kerievski, from Industrial Logic the "Modern Agile" guru thinks of team estimating is no longer useful. David Anderson's company, LeanKanban seems to be the standard bearer. They offer training have a method. The training requires reading Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business.
As expected statistical analysis of past actuals is central to the approach. A three blog post series begins to lay out the thinking from a project managers POV:
"With Kanban we talk about scheduling, sequencing, selection ("the three S's") and options, commitment, capacity allocation, risk management and hedging. We don't estimate, instead we forecast. Expectations are set based on probabilistic forecasts, and schedules are set based on a tolerance for risk versus economic costs based on probabilities of specific outcomes."
Need to read the book. Sounds great but the historical data appears to need to be structured in a fashion that matches the Kanban model - so a little chicken / egg thing happening there. My guess is it will come back to the grain of capability, feature, story.
Need to read the book. Sounds great but the historical data appears to need to be structured in a fashion that matches the Kanban model - so a little chicken / egg thing happening there. My guess is it will come back to the grain of capability, feature, story.
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