From the course: Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards
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Communicating progress
From the course: Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards
Communicating progress
- Traditional projects are like a submarine. Most of the work happens below the waterline. Then every so often, the project surfaces and sends a signal to the rest of the world. These signals usually come in the form of executive summaries and high-level status reports. These reports took a long time to create. They're also not needed by the team. The team was hard at work within the submarine. They don't need to be updated on their own progress. In Agile, the team focuses on working software. There's much less emphasis on creating documentation. This is a key value in the Agile manifesto. The time the team is reporting is time they're not spending on valuable software. An Agile team uses three techniques to try and make the reporting more efficient. The first technique is try to avoid duplication. One set of reports should work for both the team and the stakeholders. There's a lot of potential for miscommunication on a…
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