Recognize Visualization Traps

Create Your Successful Agile Project — by Johanna Rothman (76 / 168)

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Not every team gets its board right the very first time. And defining a board that works for your team might be even more difficult if your team encounters these traps:

You have options for managing these traps.

Your management says, “Do Scrum!” or “Do Kanban!” Your management has an idea of what it wants to see for your board and your output.

Don’t fight with your management — at least, not yet. Instead, use the project frame that they request. If they request Scrum, use two-week iterations.

Use the board you want. If you have a ton of interruptions, use a kanban board to make that work visible. Use the board to measure cumulative flow and cycle time. I would not even bother measuring velocity. With all those interruptions, cycle time and cumulative flow are better predictors of your capacity. See ​Cumulative Flow Shows Where the Work Is​, and ​Cycle Time Shows How Long Work Takes​, for information about these measurements.

Sometimes when teams are new to an iteration-based agile approach, they fall into the trap of dividing the work by the number of people. “We’ll each take our own story. We’ll make tons of progress.” Or someone, such as a manager or product owner, asks or demands that everyone takes his or her own story. (When people demand that experts work on “their” stories, it’s the ​Trap: Experts Take Their Own Stories​.)

It sounds like it should work. If we divide up the work, we can get done faster, right?

Well, no. Knowledge work is interdependent work and requires learning. That means we need other people to deliver a feature and we will learn as we deliver. I have yet to see one-person features. Every feature requires at least a person who creates the feature and a person who checks the feature…

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