Capacity planning is an exercise undertaken by teams to plan how much work they can complete for a given sprint/iteration/timebox.
At scale, Programme Increment(PI) planning has a stronghold on our industry, however, this usually means mandating a single approach of normalised story points, limiting the freedom teams have in choosing their own way of working.
In this talk, Nick will share how he has led an organisation in adopting approach that allows them to do this at scale (over 100 tech teams), all in a way that is framework-agnostic and allows teams the freedom in their way of working.
He’ll share the practices and techniques to adopt, (free) tools they use, as well as the learning along the way.
Participant takeaways:
How to consistently size Epics/Features, whilst accounting for variation and being agnostic of a team’s way of working (Scrum, Kanban etc)
How to forecast delivery for longer-term horizons (e.g a quarter) whilst accounting for variation and risk
How to use these two bits of information to forecast your capacity (in terms of numbers of Epics/Features) for a given timebox
How to track the delivery progress of multiple Epics/Features whilst accounting for deadlines, uncertainty, and your total work in progress
Nick is an agility coach, specialising in flow and data, dedicated to helping organisations and teams focus on outcomes via a principle based approach when adopting new ways of working.He's incredibly passionate about data and telemetry generated by teams and using this for a data-driven approach when it comes to coaching at all levels of the organisation....