Agile Fine-tuning

What is Agile Fine-tuning? 

Agile development is not a new concept in software development, but it has matured and now faces certain challenges which need to be overcome. 

It involves coping with teams and managers who lack experience and maturity.  

We need to address the absence of indicators that aid in managing from the top, governing, and comparing different teams and scenarios.   

The opacity of budget consumption must be confronted: Is it being invested effectively? 

In these situations, an organisation requires information regarding: 

• Software Product vs. Price. 
• Continuous Release Rate. 
• External references for comparison. 
• How the composition of the teams impacts other factors like size and the number of suppliers. 
• Stoppers. 

All this should be carried out within an impartial structure that avoids assumptions. As Edwards Deming would say: 

“In God we trust; all others bring data.” 

Agile Fine-tuning for customised improvement 

Within agile methodologies, numerous traditional concepts in project management have been challenged, including the golden triangle and the triple constraint. 

Now, with Agile methodology, we establish the cost (the investment budget) and the time (how long it will take) but we do not have control over the scope (the software they will produce). 

The Agile Fine-tuning service has resolved the previous queries. The measuring of the software product (using ISO/IEC standards) enables us to compare every team with one another and in relation to the market. By doing this, we can determine if they are improving or declining, the extent of their progress, and if interventions are effective. 

It helps us figure out the top-performing development teams in a network and those who need to do better. We can also identify the suppliers, technologies, and areas that require attention. The level of aggregation gets set by the company based on the need they want to address. 

At LedaMC, we select the best indicators and use them to diagnose how to exploit the model, providing a personalised dashboard which helps with decision-making.  

Benefits of applying Agile Fine-tuning in your company 

• Additional product releases can be attained by monitoring and enhancing productivity.  
• Using the standard and objective unit of functional measurement, we create consistent indicators to improve development and aid decision-making. 
• The use of common metrics that follow the ISO/IEC standard can also help to adjust information to different levels of size, such as from a small community (tribe) to the global level of my project.   
• Measuring productivity in an agile setting gives us more information to choose the best squads and suppliers based on their performance. 
• Using this measure of productivity will enable us to compare teams and determine the optimal team configuration. 
• By measuring how well a squad is working overtime, we can keep track of its progress and make changes if needed. 
• A comparison of the productivity and efficiency of agile projects against those developed using traditional methods. 

Which organisations would benefit from using Agile Fine-tuning? 

• Those who use agile methodologies for software development. 
• Those in the early stages of agile transformation 
• Businesses that aim to demonstrate the success of their Agile investment. 
• Companies that wish to oversee their agile development processes. 

Why LedaMC?

• Our expertise speaks for itself: We have been offering Agile refining services since 2018. 
• We have the market data: our database is possibly the largest in the world