Over 16 years I've seen Scrum and Agile in-name-only done as pure performance theater but I've also see it done right. I was surprised to observe how much friction was created by the tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Shortcut, etc.) and how they tend to encourage anti-Agile patterns.
Mevali is my attempt at genuinely Agile flavored software:
- stories fit on a note card and are structured around who benefits, what they need (short!), numeric estimate of worth, optionally why, and some acceptance criteria.
- oversized work can be split/reorganized really quickly.
- standup shows status by person and work item so people can collaborate rather than give a status report the software can provide.
- retro experiments stay visible during the next period of work.
- planning uses Monte Carlo simulation plus dependencies and team availability.
I’m not trying to convince teams to do Scrum if they hate it. I’m trying to remove a lot of the waste for user oriented teams that collaborate.
I’d love feedback, especially from people who have strong opinions about Jira, Scrum, Kanban, planning, etc..
Over 16 years I've seen Scrum and Agile in-name-only done as pure performance theater but I've also see it done right. I was surprised to observe how much friction was created by the tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Shortcut, etc.) and how they tend to encourage anti-Agile patterns.
Mevali is my attempt at genuinely Agile flavored software:
- stories fit on a note card and are structured around who benefits, what they need (short!), numeric estimate of worth, optionally why, and some acceptance criteria.
- oversized work can be split/reorganized really quickly.
- standup shows status by person and work item so people can collaborate rather than give a status report the software can provide.
- retro experiments stay visible during the next period of work.
- planning uses Monte Carlo simulation plus dependencies and team availability.
I’m not trying to convince teams to do Scrum if they hate it. I’m trying to remove a lot of the waste for user oriented teams that collaborate.
I’d love feedback, especially from people who have strong opinions about Jira, Scrum, Kanban, planning, etc..