Many Agile teams collaborate with a Product Owner, or maybe a customer. But how many team members collaborate as a team? Too few. Why? Because the reward system reinforces resource efficiency, not flow efficiency.
Focusing on flow efficiency frees the team to collaborate and deliver—as a team. Flow efficiency helps the organization focus on throughput—the outcome—rather than busyness—the output.
- How to see the signs of resource efficiency and flow efficiency.
- What to measure and when to measure it.
- How too-common metrics, such as velocity and burndown, might actually contribute to resource efficiency thinking instead of flow efficiency thinking.
About the Speaker:
Johanna Rothman is known as the “Pragmatic Manager” because of her practical approach to projects and management. She consults and coaches leaders from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Johanna has written 14 books, hundreds of articles and too-many-to-count blog posts. Her most recent agile books are Create Your Successful Agile Project, Manage Your Project Portfolio,2nd ed, and Agile and Lean Program Management. She writes an email newsletter, the Pragmatic Manager and two blogs on jrothman.com. Johanna is a favorite speaker at Agile New England events.
