Presentation done in Jan at the Winnipeg Agile User Group about how to make your team more productive and communicate better developers, managers and business analysts.

1. Productive Teams

2. “Amateurs sit and wait
for inspiration, the rest
of us just get up and go
to work.”
Stephen King

3. ”Productivity is being
able to do things that
you were never able
to do before”
Franz Kafka

4. How to improve
productivity?

5. WAIT! In order to
improve….

6. We need…

7. How to measure
productivity?

8. Measuring
Productivity

9. Your answer
here…

10. Features Completed
KPI
Goals
Burndown
Estimated vs Actual
Story points

11. ROI Per feature
% of defects

12. Features Completed
* Tracking closed features
* Stories accepted as done
* Kanban board

13. Goals / KPI
* Define Key Performance
Indicator
* Measure
* Action plan
* BI Tool
* Publish results

14. Burndown
* Compare against the mean
* Raises flags to act

15. Estimate vs Actual
* Estimate is just a guess
* When we do not need to
estimate?
*

16. Story Points
* Complexity
* Planning poker
* Discussion

17. ROI per feature
* Who does it?
* Maybe is cost of features…
* How are you spending your
time
* Shorter Feedback cycle

18. % of defects
* What produced the bug?
* Unit tests but Acceptance
testing

19. Team Dynamics

20. Team has multiple roles

21. Project Managers
Developers
Analysts
DBAs
Owners
Designers

24. Best &
Worst

25. Your answer
here…

26. About Devs
* Analysis paralysis
* Lack of Timeliness
* Poor communication
* Hatred for users
* Egos

27. About Managers
* Deadline driven
* Micromanagement
* Powerpoint & Gantt
* People as resources

28. About BAs

29. Thank you!

30. The Smartest tool
for lean project
management
http://smartviewapp.com

31. amir@barylko.com
@abarylko
http://bit.ly/abarylkoslides

32. Photo Credit
• Under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
• Joe Cheng, DSC_7820-01, http://flic.kr/p/2Zt2u
• Bill Ward, Derek Schin's Trucks 1, http://flic.kr/p/m5L5S
• Jeremy Keith, Roast beef, http://flic.kr/p/TKUz
• Rob Campbell, Field of daisies, http://flic.kr/p/6QJjU4
• Karin Dalziel, The Thinker, http://flic.kr/p/4UYArc

33. Photo Credit 2
•Under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
•Don LaVange, To Irene, https://flic.kr/p/49ihZX
•Under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/
•Derick Bailey, SOLID Motivational Posters, http://bit.ly/17aVaHg
•MGA Roadster 1600 in Chariot Red: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C414652
•Cone of Uncertainty, http://www.agilenutshell.com/cone_of_uncertainty
•Burning Money, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_burning#mediaviewer/
File:Burning-money-and-yuanbao-at-the-cemetery-3249.JPG