Current workshops, webinars, & articles
The Agile Manager
In today’s business climate, change occurs at an ever-increasing pace. Managers and executives are increasingly challenged to build an organization that is able to respond effectively to this change. This is the essence of agility.
Aptage Analytics Workshop
Come be a part of the Software Guru workshop. I will be covering the best ways to use and choose your analytics. We will cover visualizing data, insights and actions
Implementing the Integrative Framework, Part IV — Autonomy
by Murray Cantor
In our previous Advisor in this series (see “Implementing the Integrative Framework, Part III — Alignment”), we defined a modus for alignment in which the development organization executive (e.g., CTO or VP of development) is responsible for defining overall development organization goals so that the organization fulfills its role in meeting the enterprise mission. The development executive accordingly sets the corresponding top-level product strategy and overall project team goals. In parallel, the project team assumes responsibility for working to achieve these goals by innovative problem solving and/or continuing focus on efficiency. With this modus, a properly tooled company can create initial alignment (e.g., through the planning and budgeting process) and maintain it on an ongoing basis by continuing to track the measures and align the portfolio view with the project view whenever needed.
Aptage Analytics Predictor for Release Planning
Open the article BAP for Release planning
Explore the Aptage approach (with Bayesian analytics) to smart release planning. What features should the project lead realistically include in the next release? When the size of the effort and team velocity are uncertain, as agile methodology reminds us, how can we improve our prediction of time-to-complete? How do we better determine the likelihood of successful completion scenarios for various combinations of features? In this article, I describe how feature-stories capture uncertainty and how the history of past releases affects current beliefs and how they are used in Aptage approach to improving the likelihood of delivering on-time.
Articles and Presentations
Here are just a few of my recent articles and presentations:
My on-demand webinar with Tasktop’s VP of Product Management, Nicole Bryan, describing a straightforward method for finding your analytic solution and how to adapt the Goal, Question, Metric (GQM) method to development processes, as well as how to avoid “the light is brighter here” analytics anti-pattern.
Join Israel Gat, Director of Cutter Consortium Agile Practice, and me in a workshop that explains mastering the new, integrative framework, to increase the business value of your software and develop better software. This will benefit anyone in your organization who is involved in software and its importance to the business.
Our popular joint article authored by Israel Gat and me titled A New Kind of Software Development Framework, where we describe a new kind of prescriptive framework that is being built now but will emerge as a fully integrative framework in 2016. For a deep dive into better understanding this dichotomy we and numerous Agile/Lean/Kanban/System Thinking practitioners encounter in so many software development engagements, please click here to request your free Cutter trial, and then download Parts I and II of the series Implementing the Integrative Framework:
Part I (Implementing the Integrative Framework – Moving on from Know-how to Know-why), and
Part II (Implementing the Integrative Framework – Scalability) of the series.
My ‘One Size Does Not Fit All’ keynote presentation given at this year’s Software Guru Conference on the New Integrative Framework
In this webinar with David West, Tasktop’s Chief Product Officer, we cover the dimensions of analytics, the key driving principles, analytics maturity, adapting the analytics to your mix of development efforts, and integrating analytics across the levels of the organization.
For those with a Cutter subscription, I delivered this webinar on Modern Lean
A recent briefing on managing software and IT portfolios in the face of uncertainty
A recent briefing on Schedule Prediction
Israel Gat and I presented this briefing on The Economics of Quality at the Consortium on IT and Software Quality (CISQ) conference.
On the IBM DevWorks site, I published an article on Flow Measures for Software
For the Cutter Consortium, I recently published an article on technical liability.
An article I wrote explaining some of the math behind the Nate Silver’s, The Signal and the Noise
IEEE Computer Society: Economic Governance of Software Delivery Economic Governance of Software Delivery
Association for Computing Machinery: Calculating and improving ROI in software and system programs