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In this installment of our re-read of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability we again tackle two chapters. Chapter 11, “Different Sampling Methods”, points out that random... Read More
Today we tackle two chapters of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability. We begin with Chapter 9 – VoP, VoC, and Predictability which sums up Section I,... Read More
Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery Chapter 8 shatters myths! Once upon a time in a land far, far away, I believed a few of these myths. Ok,... Read More
Chapter 7 of Mastering Work Intake: From Chaos to Predictable Delivery dives into the nuances of using XmR charts for four flow metrics. They are: This chapter is hugely... Read More
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... Read More
The question of how much data is required to determine what is happening in a system is a perennial bugaboo. Those predisposed to acting tend to think less is more,... Read More
We continue with Chapter Four of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability, titled Process Behaviour Charts, this week. Today we construct an XmR chart. We begin with... Read More
Charts. The chapter corrected a misconception I have had for at least twenty years which we will get to in Part 2 of our re-read of chapter 4 (we are... Read More
It is nearly 2024! Re-read Saturday is taking a one-week hiatus so I thought we would re-publish the conclusion of our re-read of Daniel S. Vacanti’s Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An... Read More
Vacanti begins Chapter 3 of Actionable Agile Metrics Volume II, Advanced Topics in Predictability by Daniel S. Vacanti, by reminding the reader: “A predictable process behaves in a way we expect it... Read More
