{"id":3192,"date":"2024-04-28T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T08:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/?page_id=3192"},"modified":"2024-07-11T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T11:38:09","slug":"backlog-visualisierung-experimente","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/backlog-visualisierung-experimente","title":{"rendered":"Backlog Visualization Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One possibility is to estimate the effort for all elements in the backlog and measure the velocity of the teams. In this way, the Product Owner could predict when a bundle of tasks related to an agreed milestone will be completed. However, this is highly speculative and defeats any agile approach by introducing an analysis and design phase before the development phase. This is a sequential lifecycle, a waterfall process.<\/p>\n

I have been experimenting for more than ten years to solve this problem and to minimize the negative effects. In contrast to the approach of predicting the future with the help of a Monte Carlo simulation, I use a trend-based visualization of the product backlog. This initially increases transparency by showing current progress at the overall level and at three backlog levels. Combined with a statistical approach (standard deviation and queueing theory), forecasts can be made for the worst case, the best case and the probable case. This approach therefore gives an indication of what the future would look like if the organization maintains its behaviour. The aim is to make the organization think: \u201cShould or must we change our behaviour?\u201d. It is therefore not just about producing a report (status report). Rather, it is about reflecting on and adapting the behavior of an organization over time. With this approach, some of my clients are able to determine very quickly and without team estimates how much effort, time or money a new backlog item (topic, feature or user story) or a release cycle will require.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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At the LeSS Conference 2023 in Berlin, Frank Preiss (Domain Agile Master at BMW) and I presented this approach and shared our experiences from practice. Video<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Backlog Visualisierung Experimente Motivation Eine der gr\u00f6\u00dften Herausforderungen bei der Einf\u00fchrung agiler Arbeitsweisen oder von LeSS in der gro\u00df angelegten Produktentwicklung ist der Umgang mit den Schnittstellen zwischen der agilen\/LeSS einf\u00fchrenden Organisation und den umliegenden Abteilungen, die in einer Wasserfall artigen Organisation an Meilensteine gebunden sind. Dies ist z.B. der Fall, wenn Sie Scrum, LeSS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"full-screen","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"off","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"on","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"off","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"off","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3192","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3390,"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3192\/revisions\/3390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bregenzer.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}