Daniel Vacanti is a software industry veteran who has spent most of his career focusing on Lean and Agile practices. In 2007, he helped to develop the Kanban as a strategy for knowledge work and managed the world’s first project implementation of Kanban that year. He has been conducting Lean-Agile training, coaching, and consulting ever since. In 2011 he founded ActionableAgileTM which provides industry-leading predictive analytics tools and services organizations that utilize Lean-Agile practices. In 2015 he published his first book, “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability”, which is the definitive guide to flow-based metrics and analytics. In 2017, he helped to develop the “Professional Scrum with Kanban” class with Scrum.org. In 2018, he published his second book, “When Will It Be Done?”. In 2020, he co-founded Prokanban.org whose aim is to provide an inclusive, safe, and diverse community to learn about flow practices. Most recently in 2024 he published his third book, “Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability Vol II”.
Take 30 seconds and write down all of the “Agile” P-words that you can come up with. How did you do? Product? Planning? Prioritization? Now take a minute and think about what your favourite Agile framework has to say about these terms. In this talk we’ll explore how most of that framework guidance is at best deficient and at worst, well, misguided. We’ll a...