Author: Prashant MJ

ACT | Glossary

Prashant MJ Leave a comment

Definition:

Agile Champions Teams (ACT), a team of 16 or so individuals participate on the ACT on the team for around 6 to 24 months depending on their role and ability to commit time to the team. Members are chosen to equally represent all functions involved. ACT meets every other week for 2 hours and augments those meetings with occasional longer offsite meetings.

ACT resolved issues related to lack of stakeholder involvement in projects, the proper use and meaning of deadlines, and executive leadership misperceptions of what agile is and can do for the company. One of the developer from the ACT team expressed his views that the best things to come out of ACT is the wide-open, smackdown brown bag sessions where all are welcome to ask questions and share knowledge. These meetings helps uncover root challenges in agile, which could be addressed by ACT.

Further Reading:
Book: SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn

Agile: EF | Glossary

Prashant MJ Leave a comment

Definition:

Agile Evaluation Framework or Agile: EF was introduced by Krebs and Krell in 2008, an approach to assess how well agile teams are doing. Here they advice to keep things simple and is therefor less of an actual framework than a process for assessing teams.

In this approach Krebs and Krell suggest having team members complete a very short questionnaire at the end of every sprint. Each question concerns an agile practice which is answered with a score in range of 1 – 10, where 10 indicates done 100% of the time and 1 indicating never done. The assessment may be reported in a graph where solid bars indicate the team’s result.  The darker, thinner line indicates how widely opinion vary, calculating standard deviation.

Further Reading:
Book: SUCCEEDING WITH AGILE Software Development Using Scrum by Mike Cohn