Reflections on Scrum and Kanban with Ranjith Venkatesh

Are you a firefighter in your Scrum team?  Are Product Backlog Items being pushed on you?   Don't be a firefighter on your Scrum team, limit your work in progress and flow!   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is your workflow visualized in a software tool online?   Try visualizing the workflow to a physical board with post-its and see how Developers take ownership!   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is Quantity more important than Quality?   Throughput helps the Product Owner forecast the amount of value that can be delivered to the Stakeholders.   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Is a User story not being cared for?  Is a User story blocking the flow in the team?   A filter for Work Item Aging (eg: 5 days in a 1 month Sprint)  helps the Developers and Product Owner pay attention to those user stories that are clogging up the flow.   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Our SLA called for 4 hours resolution time!  Our team managed to resolve with a cycle time of 2 hours!!  We were mighty proud :)   Do you know your team cycle time?   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Can you multitask and keep your Scrum Team and Product Owner happy?  Not always, especially when things are undone and nobody is happy.   A little bit of WIP to the rescue and get your Scrum Team to flow!   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Do you have a DoD in your Scrum Team?  Do you stick to your DoD come what may?   A simple DoD rule of a Development team I was part of was that every piece of code had to have unit tests with full test coverage.   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Would you play football without goals?   Fuzzy Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with social logins  Measurable Sprint Goal: Enable the platform with a Google account login   SMART criteria for a goal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria  Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

Does a company run without a mission or vision?  Should a Scrum Team take the time to create a Product Goal together?   How does the Product Goal sets the direction for every single Product Backlog Item that is created and worked on!   Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/

CI for Developers  CD for DevOps  Continuous Improvement with the help of "Sprint Retrospectives"   Useful links:  https://www.funretrospectives.com/  https://miro.com/templates/retrospective/  Agile Coach: Ranjith Venkatesh  Company: Moss and Lichens  Website: https://mossandlichens.com/ Workshops and Coaching: https://mossandlichens.com/workshops/