Agile Conference Presentation: You’re a project manager and you’ve just been given an Agile project to look after. You ask for reports and you get burndown charts, velocity graphs, and cumulative flow diagrams. What in the world are these, and why do you suddenly have a migraine headache? Metrics are different in Agile, but the questions remain the same. Come and see what your brain needs to understand the tracking of products built in an Agile way. We’ll build an Agile dashboard that you can take into your next meeting.

1. Agile Reporting for PM Brain
Gatineau-Ottawa Agile Tour 2018
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Open a browser on any laptop, tablet or smartphone
Go to https://bit.ly/2zue39s
Answer the three questions
https://bit.ly/2Asz7wM
Quiz

2. Presenters
Wayne Hetherington
Independent Agile Coach
contracted to CIBC
Farahnaz Henley
Scrum Master
RBC Bank

3. Agenda
Introduction
Basic Cognitive Terms
Brief History of Agile Projects
Good, Bad & Ugly Metrics
Build you Dashboard
Wrap up

4. Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Escape Velocity
Doc Norton
Introduction

5. Bias
Confirmation Bias
Heuristic
Availability Heuristic
Fallacy
Conjunction Fallacy
Illusion
Illusion of Transparency
Paradox
Cobb’s Paradox
Basic Cognitive Terms

6. Waterfall Reporting
Why using the Waterfall reporting system is
not functional in Agile environment?
• The Waterfall measurement structure is
no longer available in Agile framework
• Continuing Reporting in Waterfall way
imposes the Waterfall culture to the
team
So how to bring visibility into the progress
of the team for stakeholders?

7. Project Management Reports and Mindset
A Brief History of Agile Projects
Gantt Chart
Budget Forecast
Resource Allocation
Red/Amber/Green
Project Health
Risk Log

8. Illusion of Control
Let’s play a game to clarify the concept:
Pair up with someone – 1 roller & 1 watcher
You can bet up to $10 against the house but keep
the amount secret to yourself
Roll the die!
If you roll 6; you both win otherwise you both lose

9. Estimate vs. Actual
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10 hours
%50
5 hours
Estimate
Actual

10. Goodhart’s Law
Vanity Metrics
Hawthorne Effect
Good, Bad & Ugly Metrics
Be careful of cognitive bias when picking metrics

11. Build you Dashboard
A good place to start is a goal based approach:
or OKR: Objectives & Key ResultsMQGoal
uestion
etrics
Start by asking yourself what GOAL you would like to achieve
Then come up with the QUESTIONS you would like to answer
You can choose proper METRICS based on the answers above
Don’t measure metrics that you’re
not willing to improve!

12. Build your Dashboard
Product Process

13. Thank you
Q&A

14. Conjunction Fallacy
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