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Agile Metrics and Diagnostics Presentation

Giora Morein — Mon, 31 May 2010 03:08:02 +0000

I had a great time meeting a bunch of cool Agilists at the Agile Boston meeting on this past Wednesday night. I had a chance to present on a topic I am particularly passionate about: Agile Metrics and Diagnostics.

The pdf of the presentation can be found here:

QA the Agile Way Presentation

Giora Morein — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:38:29 +0000

I had a great time presenting at the SQAA-OC in Irvine on Tuesday (5/18).

Here are copies of the slides: QA The Agile Way

Agile2009: Mapping the Change Battlefield

Giora Morein — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:06:47 +0000

George and I presented our Agile Battlemapping presentation at the Agile2009 conference. I had an absolutely fantastic time and based on the feedback we received from the audience, it appeared that everyone else had a good time too. This was the first time we had added the practical exercises. First the audience members individually drew battlemaps of their own projects or programs followed and then they combined into groups to create prioritized response strategies. I look forward to making further enhancements and to the next time we present it. Click below do download a PDF of the presentation.

Agile 2009: Mapping the Change Battlefied

Theme Prioritization Scoring Worksheet

Giora Morein — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:26:32 +0000

I recently created a simple Theme Prioritization Scoring Spreadsheet. I use this as part of the Certified Scrum Product Owner class that I conduct.

BigVisible Theme Prioritization Scoring Workshop – CSPO Class

Feel free to download and use. It currently does not weight the relative benefit of implementing a feature (epic, theme or user story) nor the penalty of not implementing though adding the weighting capability is simple enough.

If you are interested in taking an public scrum class with me, check out training.bigvisible.com

Regards,
Giora Morein

Introduction to Scrum

Giora Morein — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:00:55 +0000

Brian Bozzuto presented last night at the Central Mass chapter of the PMI on an Introduction to Scrum. The presentation is available here:

Iteration Tracker

Giora Morein — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:21:43 +0000

I’ve been asked recently to post the Standalone Iteration Tracking Spreadsheet that I created a few years back – and I finally got around to it. This spreadsheet was first part of a bigger tool that supported backlog management, release reporting, feature tracking etc. It became incredibly difficult to maintain so I decided to pull key pieces out and made them independent. This Iteration or Sprint Tracker is intended to be used by ScrumMasters or Project Managers. It was never intended to be used by the entire team (though you absolutely can) but rather provide a way for the ScrumMaster to actively track task progress and generate real-time reports and diagnostics. You will see that it provides far more than the simple traditional burndown. Along with the Advanced Burn-up it also shows the Category Burn-down. The Category Burndown is intended to show visibility into the progress of specific categories of task – to identify bottlenecks or constraints.

I haven’t had time to create any user guides but here are a couple of things that I think would be helpful to know:

You will need to enable Macro’s for the sheet to work correctly
If you haven’t already done so, you will need to install the Analysis Toolpak Excel Add-In that comes with Excel. From the Excel Menu, select Tools, AddIns. Select the Analysis Toolpak and click OK.
After entering your Iteration Start and End Dates, click the “AutoShow Columns” button to automatically hide and show the relevant date columns
In the Status field, avoid using the “Fill-Down” capability to set the status of multiple fields. Instead use copy-and-paste for the same result. You can copy from a single status field and paste to a range of fields.
To have the burndown data for a specific day show up in the charts, you will need to enter an “x” in the field directly beneath the date
You can modify the categories by changing the list of categories in the table of “Category Burn-Down Data”
You can hide specific categories by removing the “x” next to the category name.
Send me a note for any additional help – I’ll do my best to get back to you quickly.

I’ve included two sheets: a blank tracker as well as one containing sample data.

Bigvisible Standalone Iteration Tracker v0.9.2

Bigvisible Standalone Iteration Tracker v0.9.2 – Sample Data

Enjoy
Giora Morein
gmorein@bigvisible.com

Israel Scrum User Group – Intro to Scrum Presentation

Giora Morein — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:06:54 +0000

Event: Israel Scrum User Group, December 2008
Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel
Presenter: Giora Morein

This is the Scrum Introduction presentation I presented at the first Scrum Israel User Group.

Download the Introduction to Scrum

Agile Bazaar – September 2008 – Big Agile

Giora Morein — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:37:57 +0000

I presented at this month’s Agile Bazaar meeting on September 25th in Cambridge, MA. The presentation is about how to scale Agile titled Big Agile – From Team to Program

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PMI IT&Telecom SIG Scrum Alliance Webinar – Big Scrum

Giora Morein — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:18:01 +0000

George schlitz and I presented a webinar hosted by the Project Maganament Intstitute (PMI) Information Technology and Telechom SIG. The actualy recorded webinar is going to be available to the IT&Telecom SIG members here.

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Agile2008 Distributed Agile Presentation

Giora Morein — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:27:21 +0000

Event: Agile2008, August 2008
Location: Toronto, Canada
Presenters: Giora Morein and George Schlitz

George Schlitz and I presented at the recent Agile2008 conference in Toronto on how to leverage Ambassador Models to enable highly effective distributed teams.

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