What is the latest thinking being shared at Agile conferences? The Agile Coaches at ASOS took a day out at SEAcon — The Study of Enterprise Agility conference to find out more… A joint article by myself, Dan and Esha, fellow Agile Coaches here at ASOS Tech. What is SEAcon? According to the…

Flow metrics are a great tool for teams to leverage for an objective view in their efforts towards continuous improvement. Why limit them to just teams? This post reveals how, at ASOS, we are introducing the same concepts but for Epic and Feature level backlogs… Flow at all levels Flow metrics are one of…

Flow Efficiency is a metric that is lauded as being a true measure of agility yet it has never had any clear data supporting it, until now. This blog looks at over 60 teams here in ASOS and what numbers they see from a flow efficiency perspective… Not too long…

The final part in this series of three blogs covering how you can add flow metrics directly into your kanban board in Azure DevOps. This part covers how to add in your Service Level Expectation (SLE). Check out part one if you want to add Work Item Age or part…

The second in a series of three blogs covering how you can add flow metrics directly into your kanban board in Azure DevOps. Part one covered how to add Work Item Age. …

Probabilistic forecasting by Agile teams is increasingly becoming a more common practice in the industry, particularly due to the great work of people such as Larry Macherrone, Troy Magennis, Julia Wester, Dan Vacanti and Prateek Singh. One question that isn’t particularly well documented is how accurate is it? Here we…

The first in a series of three blogs covering how you can add flow metrics directly into your kanban board in Azure DevOps. Part one (this blog) will cover adding Work Item Age. …

Autonomy, mastery and purpose are the three core components to intrinsic motivation. How do you embed these into your technology function/department? Read on to explore these concepts further and how we go about it at ASOS… The book Drive by Daniel Pink is an international bestseller and a commonly referenced…

As organisations try to improve their ways of working, better efficiency is often a cited goal. ‘Increasing flow’ is something else you may hear, with Flow Efficiency being a measure called out as something organisations need to focus on. The problem is that few, if any, share the many flaws…