Dan North & Associates | faster organizations, faster software. Value Streams are Made of People | Lean Systems Society | Lean Systems Society. Note by Al Shalloway: I’m happy to present this blog from Liz Keogh. Liz is one of these out-of-the-box thinkers who somehow manages to connect many disparate dots. Here she deals with value streams, but not in your normal, in-the-box manner. Enjoy. Liz Keogh Independent consultant, Lean / Agile coach and trainer When I was first taught about value streams, they looked a lot like this: The idea is that you look at the different activities through which the work flows, and the gaps between them, then narrow the gaps, because waiting around for things to happen is wasteful.
We’re used to thinking of software in terms of phases. As companies get larger, the value streams tend to get more complicated, but we still talk about our software in terms of those original phases. In software development, work is more like product development – designing a new car – than like a production line where we churn the same thing out over and over again. So the development team get their requirements. Vodafone Scrumboard - Demodag Video. Scrum Board on Steroids: The Awesome Nature of Awesomeness. Breaking news: Vodafone board wins Atlassian Ultimate Wallboard contest ... The Vodafone team in Copenhagen has a Scrum Board with RFID technology that knows when a card moves and updates data in their Jira tracking system. A video camera is always watching the board. This video is an entire sprint running in fast forward. There are projectors showing the burndown and how much of the sprint backlog is in each state.
This is driven by Jira and the projectors are on 100% of the time. Software is written in Python by the ScrumMaster, Ole Hojris Kristensen. Requirements for Product Owner: Common Pitfalls. Accelerate Development with Agile Teams and Continuous Delivery. Scrum – Beginners Guide To Scrum. Scrum is an agile way to manage a project, usually software development. Agile software development with Scrum is often perceived as a methodology; but rather than viewing Scrum as methodology, think of it as a framework for managing a process.
In the agile Scrum world, instead of providing complete, detailed descriptions of how everything is to be done on a project, much of it is left up to the Scrum software development team. This is because the team will know best how to solve the problem they are presented. This is why in Scrum development, for example, a sprint planning meeting is described in terms of the desired outcome (a commitment to a set of features to be developed in the next sprint) instead of a set of Entry criteria, Task definitions, Validation criteria, Exit criteria (ETVX) and so on, as would be provided in most methodologies.
Scrum relies on a self-organizing, cross-functional team. Within agile development, Scrum teams are supported by two specific roles. Facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in enterprise software development. Agile. Story Mapper by Carbon Five.