Dejirafication free your process

@alexeykrv #ale16

Most companies use some sort of backlog management tools…

There are many different ones… but i’ll just call them ‘jira’

Inventories are wasteful

That’s how Most PBR meetings feel like

PBR is where the team to meet with the tool

Printed jira issues Time-boxed discussions Break-out groups working in parallel Updates to jira after the meeting

Some ideas that I’ve tried to improve the meetings:

Result: just less badly jirafied meetings.

Jirandicitis (or the ‘jira symptom’)

An observable process when team collaboration

(such as a meeting) is degrading to become

a plain tool-updating activity (with a sole goal of updating the tool).

welcome to jira rehab program !!!

One of my client joint the jira rehab program: We went back to paper:

Backlog refinement activities are much more lively

We are building shared understanding of product & work

It might also look a bit more chaotic

#1 mind-mapping for product themes – no more lists!

#2 JIT story creating and slicing – minimal inventories!

I call this ‘parmigiano method’: Grate fresh stories only when hungry.

#3 backlog refinement with shuffled groups – amplified learning!

#4 shape discussions – lean coffee with confidence voting

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#1 mind-mapping for product themes – no more lists

#2 JIT story slicing – minimal inventories

#3 backlog refinement with mixed teams – amplify learning

#4 shape discussions – lean coffee with confidence voting

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Thank you! @alexeykrv for #ale16