Happy Birthday to the Software Process and Measurement Cast.  Today we begin year 18 with our interview with Gil Broza. Gil and I discussed his new book, Deliver Better Results: How to Unlock Your Organization’s Potential. The book is available NOW! I am excited by the ideas in the book and I think you will be also.  If you are involved in improving value delivery this is a must-have-book. Why? Because it identifies what organizations that successfully improve value delivery have in common and provides those ideas to you.

Gil specializes in helping leaders deliver far better results by upgrading their organizations’ Agile ways of working. He is the author of Deliver Better Results, The Agile Mind-Set, The Human Side of Agile, and Agile for Non-Software Teams

Listen to the podcast and then download Chapter 1 from HeardOnPodcast.DeliverBetterResultsBook.com 

Other Contact Links: 

The book: https://3pvantage.com/dbr-book/
Gil’s  My website: https://3pvantage.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilbroza/

Mastering Work Intake
by Tom Cagley and Jeremy Willets 

Have you purchased your copy of  Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery?  Doing the right work at the right time can make or break your project, and there are surprisingly few resources to show you how to manage this process effectively – no longer. Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery focuses on the full pipeline that work follows as it enters and exits your organization, including the different types of work that enter at different levels and times. It is a must-read for agile coaches, Scrum Masters, product owners, project and portfolio managers, team members, and anyone who touches the software development process. Mastering work intake involves recognizing that it’s easy to say “ yes” and much harder to say “ no.”

Buy a copy today!  

J Ross: https://bit.ly/474ul6G

Amazon (US): https://a.co/d/7nYupx5

For physical copies outside of the US and Canada:

UK and EU: https://www.eurospanbookstore.com/ 

For international orders outside of Europe: https://a.co/d/7nYupx5 (or the Amazon store for your country)

Re-read Saturday News

Chapter Six, of  Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability, is titled Detecting Signals on PBCs. Finding a signal in the noise is like separating the wheat from the chaff. Adding to the pile of quotes, one of the most enduring is “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” A more appropriate version in the context of this chapter might be “Give a person some data and they will see a trend. Teach a person to detect a signal and they won’t be as silly” – doesn’t have the same punch, but the new version encapsulates Chapter 6.

Buy a copy and get reading – Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability.  

Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Preface https://bit.ly/4adgxsC

Week 2: Wilt The Stilt and Definition of Variation https://bit.ly/4aldwGN

Week 3: Variation and Predictability  – https://bit.ly/3tAVWhq 

Week 4: Process Behavior Charts Part 1https://bit.ly/3Huainr

Week 5: Process Behavior Charts Part 2https://bit.ly/424O5Wc 

Week 6: How Much Data?https://bit.ly/47GVP24 

Week 7: Detecting Signalshttps://bit.ly/3SjwfdO 

Next SPaMCAST 

SPaMCAST 793 explores the relationship between value stream mapping and work intake. The whole value chain needs to understand why mastering work intake delivers more value for everyone!

We will also have a visit from Kies Kostaqi who brings her “You Are Not Alone” column to the podcast.