Improving Productivity
Explore how to effectively improve Agile productivity by focusing on systems rather than individuals. Understand how to use velocity as a relative productivity measure, implement process changes, and address organizational issues. This lesson helps you evaluate team improvements, leverage retrospectives, and apply disciplined metrics for sustained Agile success.
ABOUT THIS CHAPTER How do you summarize effective Agile’s approach to process in four words? My answer is, “Fix systems, not individuals.” I talked previously about decriminalizing mistakes, which is important. But decriminalizing mistakes does not mean ignoring them—it means coming together in an open, respectful, collaborative way to understand the factors that led to the mistake and changing them so that the mistake cannot happen again. ...