From the course: Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement
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Selecting improvements for the sprint to optimize outcomes
From the course: Agile Project Management: Continuous Improvement
Selecting improvements for the sprint to optimize outcomes
- Imagine you're a pee wee soccer coach and some parents have donated $5,000 stipulating that you use it to make high value improvements. Would you purchase a water bottle filling station, fix the snack dispenser, or buy a cooling fan for the summer or a warming bench for the winter? You'd have to have criteria and a system for selecting the highest impact improvements. When selecting items for your continuous Agile improvement sprints, you have the same challenge. You must consider several criteria to help ensure the sprint backlog is well-defined, achievable, and aligned with your sprint goal. Agile methodologies include well-established criteria for selecting items to include in the sprint. Things like contribution to customer satisfaction, business value, strategic fit, cost, risk, opportunity, effort, complexity, feasibility, dependencies, and team capacity and skills. We won't cover them all here. We will cover the additional questions and criteria you must include specific to…
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