Drunk Agile

Should you collect Blocker data? If yes, how do you use it? If not, what is an alternative? #Nisha, Dan, and Prateek discuss this in the third episode recorded on the same night. #DrunkAgile tending towards #PlasteredAgile.

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek answer an audience question about #MonteCarlo and the predicted date ending on a weekend. What does this mean in terms of #risk? Does the risk change based on how far out the forecast is?

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek talk through the effect weekends have on cycle time. Why they are included and what would be the effect if we did exclude them? Note : This episode includes the use of visuals and might be better experienced on Youtube.

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek talk through the applicability of Flow Metrics in Scrum. Also, they are 'Flow Metrics', not 'Kanban Metrics'. ProKanabn.Org's new AFMS course covers this as well.

In this episode, Dan and Prateek inspect the results of Monte-Carlo forecasts for when in the season would LeBron James break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record. Nisha does her best airbud impression.

The last episode in the Flaw of Averages series. Nisha, Dan, and Prateek answer a distillation of multiple audience questions - What is the problem with single-point answers?

The Flaw of Averages Part II. In this sequel, Dan and Prateek take on data distributions and shapes. #Nisha calls out the bull in Weibull. It is normal for your data to not be normal.

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek discuss Dr. Sam Savage's Flaw of Averages in this episode of #DrunkAgile. Have you been thinking of the world in terms of averages? If yes, hopefully, this episode will cure that ailment.

ProKanban.org hosts Nisha, Dan, and Prateek for a live edition of Drunk Agile. In this Holiday Special, the Drunk Agile crew takes on a variety of questions from the audience.

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek cover an audience question - I have a new feature, not yet started, when will that feature be completed? Come find out the answer.

Everything you have been told about Scaling is wrong! Nisha, Dan, and Prateek cover what is so different about Applying Scaled Portfolio Kanban.

#Nisha, Dan, and Prateek talk about being Agile when implementing Agile. They discuss the pitfalls of Maturity Models and more...

Nisha, Dan, and Prateek are back with some whisky and revisiting thoughts around Ex-Ante vs Ex-Post in order to answer an audience question looking for "guidance on finding the sweet spot to achieve meaningful metrics without too much waste in the form of ex-Ante Analysis."

Should #Kanban boards have a "Ready" column? If they do, what's the difference between that column and a "Backlog"? Dan, Prateek, and #Nisha discuss this on this week's episode. A special thanks to Andy for the question!

Dan and Prateek (with a Nisha slideshow) take the stage at Lean Agile London to answer questions from a live audience.

Is each pull request a separate work item? How do Dan, Prateek and Nisha suggest we correlate the two? Hint - It is all about your flow policies.

Nisha, Dan and Prateek talk about observations of flow outside of product development. They discuss how flow management policies have a great effect on the performance of any kind of process.

Nisha, Dan and Prateek discuss the merits and drawbacks of Product Backlogs. Can a team or and organization actually be successful and achieve results without a Product Backlog?

Dan and Prateek answer an audience question - Is Kanban Better Suited For Mature Agile Teams? Nisha helps as usual.

James Scrimshire joins Nisha, Dan and Prateek to discuss the problems with trying to follow a big scaling recipe. Are you seeing problems with one of the popular scaling frameworks? You are not alone. Listen in to find out what might be causing those issues.

Potentially the most important concept in Agile that no one talks about is the difference between ex ante and ex post. Much of Agile assumes ex ante knowledge that you just don't have. #Nisha, Prateek, and Dan discuss on this week's episode of Drunk Agile.

Want to forecast a release but don't know exactly how many items are in your backlog? Want to know when a bunch of features will finish but haven't broken them down yet? Find out how in this week's episode of Drunk Agile with Nisha, Dan, and Prateek!

Most #agile frameworks love to talk about "done" and most forecasting is centered around done. But how do we forecast when something will begin? (spoiler alert: or do we?) Join Nisha, Dan, and Prateek to find out in this week's episode of Drunk Agile.

Dan, Prateek and Nisha discuss how to answer the question of "When will it be done" for an item that is still in the backlog. Can Monte Carlo help?

Jose Casal joins Nisha, Dan and Prateek for this week's edition of Drunk Agile where we talk about OKRs. Well, Jose and Prateek talk and Dan just channels his inner Demming.

Nisha, Dan and Prateek answer an audience question about when is it appropriate to use Cycle Time Scatterplot vs Monte Carlo for predictions.

Dan, Nisha and Prateek host Chad and Jeff as they talk about the shipping problems of the world and of course... aging.

Johanna Rothman comes back to visit Nisha, Dan and Prateek to talk about more aspects of aging. More whisky, more insights, more bigger aging.

Karl Scotland joins Nisha, Dan and Prateek as they explore definition of predictability and the metrics that could represent it.

Nisha, Dan and Prateek discuss leading and lagging indicators, the difference between the two and whether that difference is important or not. There is a decent dose of Little's Law thrown in for good measure.

Julia Wester stops by to talk about Board Design antipatterns with Nisha, Dan and Prateek. Come find out why your board design might be critical to how work is or is not flowing. Also... Scottish Gin!

Nisha, Dan and Prateek discuss the answer to "How much data is needed to generate reliable forecasts?". Spoiler alert - It is less than you think... and you might be asking the wrong question.

Dan and Prateek channel Ted Lasso's Roy Kent and Coach Beard. They get pedantic about Cycle Time and Lead Time. Ted Lasso(#Nisha) mostly stays out of it in the latest #DrunkAgile episode. What is your opinion on the distinction(or lack thereof) between these two terms? #metrics

Nisha, Dan and Prateek are back to their curmudgeon-y best as they discuss the metrics of flow as described by SAFe. The whisky helped quite a bit on this one.

Nisha, Dan and Prateek have a conversation with Yuval Yeret around Safe, Kanban, Scrum and the intersection of all these.

Dan, Nisha and Prateek discuss applying flow metrics to Features, especially the concepts of Right Sizing and Aging. As usual, whiskey!

Dan and Prateek discuss the common myth that items on a kanban board dont move backwards.

Daniel and Prateek discuss myths of #Scrum and #Kanban as they taste 3 (high proof) bourbons. Which of these agile related myths do you believe?

Mark Kilby joins Dan, Prateek and Nisha to talk about remote Scrum, hybrid teams and the future of remote work.

Dan and Prateek have a conversation with Johanna Rothman about management, teams, flow, agile and averages. Find out why managers need to watch their own cycle times!

Dan and Prateek talk about (of all things)...people. Please join us as we share some of our thoughts on teams and teamwork. At the very least, join them for your daily dose of #Nisha.

Dan and Prateek talk about the use of flow metrics during Scrum events. They dive into how metrics, usually associated with Kanban are very useful for Scrum teams and can help teams level up their agile implementation.

Probably the most common question asked during or after #kanban training is - How do we set WIP limits? Dan, Nisha and Prateek attempt to answer it in our latest #drunkAgile episode.

Dan and Prateek talk to Greg Boswell on how kanban evolved at Corbis and how the journey has continued since.

Dan and Prateek wrap up the kanban series by talking about improving your workflow. They dive into how kanban teams can utilize what they are learning from their systems to improve their process.

Why are people who let people cut in line the worst? In the follow up to Episode 17 - Defining Your Workflow, Dan and Prateek talk about the answer to that question and how to effectively operate your workflow. Part 2 of the kanban series form DrunkAgile.

Dan and Prateek dive into some common "math" issues with interpreting Cycle Time data. Learn why histograms are mostly a terrible way to display time-series data. What are alternatives that might provide better answers.

Dan and Prateek start a series of conversations about what constitutes a Kanban system. In this episode, step 1 - Defining your Workflow.

Dan and Prateek discuss CFDs. When should you use them and when should you not? What is the correct way to construct one? What are the common pitfalls? Also, shout out the Muppets with Statler and Waldorf.

Like most things, there's probably more myths than truths about Little's Law out there on the interwebs. How many myths do you know about? Join Dan and Prateek on the next episode of #DrunkAgile to find out!