Devconf.cz 2023

Agile and scrum fit small teams that can control their projects and execution environment tightly. Larger teams that work on complex, legacy projects in an open-source environment full of distractions face serious obstacles with basic activities such as estimating and monitoring the execution.

For instance, increased uncertainty brings doubts when a task's difficulty has to be expressed as a number of story points. Similarly, long delivery times often lead to long iterations, that bring up the need to extract progress and velocity data as soon as possible - not just after such longan iteration is concluded.

Luckily, everything has been invented already. Methods that help to deal with these conditions and more were successfully used in the late 60s, and they combine extremely well with today’s possibilities of data processing and presentation.

Come to see how to do some things smarter, and how to use automation to put the data that we all already record in issue trackers to a good use.