Portfolio Management

How to Track Customer Releases?

by Chad on July 1, 2011

We can all remember the first time we learned about Scrum and the magical burndown chart that projects if you are on track to delivery during the specified time. In “Scrum in 10 Minutes,” it too talks about the burndown chart.

Today our Agile tool provides us with many burndowns AND burnup reports. We have the iterations (sprint) burndown that tracks if a sprint is on track, we have the iteration (sprint) burnup that tracks if the scope is going to be delivered, we have the Release (PSI) Burnup that tracks if the PSI scope is going to be delivered, we have the Story Burnup that tracks if a story / feature / epics is tracking, we have the Story Burndown that tracks hours burned.

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Cost of Delay Economics

by Chad on May 5, 2011

Here is a short video on Cost of Delay and how to apply it to your backlog. I’ve found it useful when working with new Product Managers and people unfamiliar with Economics. Hope it helps.

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Agile Portfolio Planning

by Chad on April 22, 2011

In Dean Leffingwell’s new book Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise he describes a Kanban System for Portfolio Planning. For the last few months I’ve been working with the good folks at Rally on a tool call Stratus. Here is a short video that shows the Kanban board I created.

Agile Portfolio Planning

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