Better Than Estimates with Predictive Analytics


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Whether you're asked to do old-school waterfall project plans or any one of a million flavors of agile, forecasting practices can be cumbersome. Worse, they're often unreliable and can damage trust between your team and your stakeholders. There is a better way! In this presentation, we'll walk through a real case study from a real massive-scale enterprise and show how a team of software developers used real math and simple tools to do more accurate forecasting in less time. We'll go through the taxonomy of common team metrics and show you which data drives the best decisions. Send that deck of cards back to game night where it belongs, and start measuring your team with math instead!
Bio
Cheryl Hammond has a couple of decades of experience as a software leader in the private and public sectors. She ran her team’s successful adoption of Scrum-ban for a mission-critical regulatory compliance project under multi-agency state and federal government oversight, mentored former COBOL devs into true-believing unit-testing XP evangelists, and turned a threatened software product at risk of litigation into a lean, revenue-generating flagship offering in nine months, all of which leads her to believe that anything is possible. She is not sorry for her many biases, including strong preferences for servant-style leadership and team-based, holistic problem-solving, and a strong aversion to Agile zealotry. Whether consulting or in-house, Cheryl endeavors to make life better for software delivery organizations and the humans who inhabit them

Better Than Estimates with Predictive Analytics