2021 #BetterThanEstimates with Predictive Analytics by Cheryl Hammond @ DFW Scrum

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Whether you're asked to do old-school waterfall project plans or any one of a million flavors of agile, forecasting practices can be cumbersome. Worse, they're often unreliable, and can damage trust between your team and your stakeholders. There is a better way! In this presentation, we'll walk through a real case study from a real massive-scale enterprise and show how a team of software developers used real math and simple tools to do more accurate forecasting in less time. We'll go through the taxonomy of common team metrics and show you which data drives the best decisions. Send that deck of cards back to game night where it belongs, and start measuring your team with math instead!

Technology

#BetterThanEstimates:
Predictive Analytics
Cheryl Hammond, Principal Consultant @bsktcase
@ DFW Scrum Meetup
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me
Cheryl Hammond
20+ years’ experience in software
development, exec leadership, and
organizational transformation
Passionate about agile, lean, and
making software delivery humane; not
afraid to look silly doing it
Fourth-generation Seattleite
College recruiter & mentor; traveler;
bolonka lover; genealogist; feminist
@bsktcase

When we left our heroes...
● Multiple TPMs with conﬂicting priorities
● Big Visible Display (Kanban/Scrum board)
● If we start work, we ﬁnish it
● Every individual story is something the TPM wants
● The Magic Box™…

@bsktcase #onemetric
This tool doesn’t exist anymore, but check out https://actionableagile.com/

● Right-sizing > estimating
● Metrics “by hand” are easier than ﬁghting over tools
● Ability to deploy on demand enables a lot
● You have more control than you realize - use it!

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