Continuous Improvement by the numbers and the culture @lazallen and Ramsay Ashby #lascot
Literature about the subject
DORA Metrics
make sense but also have their limitations
We are not looking at the whole value stream
We want to look at the whole value stream. Often they are not simple.
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So, which metrics?
Flow Time = cycle time at epic or story level
Flow Load = work in progress
Flow Efficiency = %!time a story spends in blocks state
Flow Velocity = just velocity
Flow Distribution = …
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Proving the concept -> started small
Could have used JIRA but used Excel
Manually collected data
Weekly reviews and discussions
2 teams
4 key questions
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Evaluating tools?
Principles of supplier selection
Teams vs CxO
We didn’t want any “magic”
We didn’t want to have how the teams work to use the tool
We didn’t want to have a bunch of consulting in order to proof the tool
=> tool: Plandek
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Proving it can scale
10 engaged teams
2 month trial
Engagement droooed almost immediately
Only 1 or 2 people attended the weekly call
Added more engaged team leads
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The default process:
education - proactive support - reactive support
but …
- not everyone attends training
- vocal detractors
- difficult to spot where it has landed
- one-time thing
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Take away notes
- roll out should he culture fit
- focus at team level first
- focus on whole value stream, not just the coding
- start small, think sustainable
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