February Meeting – Knowing Your Rate of Discovery
The next Agile Edmonton user group meeting will be on Wednesday, February 3rd at noon.
Knowing Your Rate of Discovery
Discovered work is all those little surprises that pop up during the course of a sprint and that appear to disrupt the planned work. My premise in this talk is that by tracking and understanding how much discovered work occurs in each sprint and monitoring it over time, we can create more achievable sprint plans and more predictable long-term schedules. Discovery rate is closely related to team velocity – especially for teams estimating with a relative effort system like story points – but it is subtly different. In the presentation, I’ll explain how it contributes to team velocity and how you can use it to more accurately estimate and plan future projects.
About the Speaker
Jim Whitelaw has been leading software development initiatives for more than 15 years and has been using Agile techniques for more than ten. His focus has been on web-based and web-enabled applications, including library automation and online banking systems. In 2006, Jim was hired by AAA video game studio BioWare to lead, coach and train development teams in Agile development. Jim is currently Principal Consultant at denovoPRO Consulting, a company he founded specifically to focus on helping software development teams to transition to Agile development and then grow their Agile expertise.
Jim has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Waterloo, has earned his PMP designation from the Project Management Institute and is a Certified Scrum Master. He has a US patent pending for methods related to securing data in online banking. Jim is an active member in the Agile community, a proponent of Scrum, and an enthusiastic leader, teacher and coach.
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This meeting will be held in the IBM Innovation Center at 10044-108th Street. You can find more event information on our website at agileedmonton.org.
If possible, try to show up a bit before noon so that we can get started on time. Be sure to forward this information to anybody that would be interested.
