Open Space Results
Here are the main ideas that resulted after the Open Space sessions.
Distributed agile
- Delegate
- Scrum of Scrums
- Better tools and trainings
- Improve goal setting
- Team power!
Metrics
- Figure out objectives
- Make things visible: value stram map
- Continuous improvement: retro, walk the flow
Bottom-up Agile implementation
- Get a sponsor
- Promote it in the team
- Don’t ask for permission
- “How happy are you?” metric
- Get a coach
Metrics
- Metrics are a measurement. What is the question?
- First metric: quality.
- downstreat feedback
- track over time
- Cycle time for flow
- long items -> low input quality
- Why are loger lead times longer
- Ratio failure demand/value demand
- are we doing quality?
- Do not count bugs towards velocity
- It can be misused. You need it because management watches it.
- What metrics?
- acknowledgment from customer -> people don’t care
- feedback from client
Refactoring without unit tests
- Microsoft PEX
- Rule of refactoring
- Courage
- Just do it
- Technical debt
- Book: Working effectively with legacy code by Michael Feathers