Monthly Archives: December 2020

2020 vision(11) – What are we missing? – The Agile Critical Path!

Whenever I post about the Agile Critical Path I’m trying to join up all of the dots from my background in Project Management through to the challenges that Agile faces today. Many years ago I recall being at a presentation in London (I think it was Project Challenge) and when they reached questions someone stood […]

2020 vision(10) – What are we missing? – The benefit of AI

In my previous post I mentioned one benefit of machine learning/AI with Scrum/Agile in providing an unbiased view towards story point estimation and normalisation. The possible benefits for using AI go far beyond this of course although with some of the associations with “soft skills” I do wonder when such AI capability would be available […]

2020 vision(9) – What are we missing? – Story point normalisation!

Wherever we look to scale up Agile/Scrum the question of normalisation appears. A principle of Agile/Scrum is self-organization but when we’re looking to have several teams working across the same product/portfolio then it makes sense to apply the same estimation parameters across these teams. SAFe recognises this and provides an example for teams to use […]