Dejirafication - clean your process
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The document discusses "dejirafication", or freeing product development processes from over-reliance on Jira and other backlog management tools. It argues that meetings often become focused on updating the tool rather than team collaboration. The author proposes a "jira rehab program" using paper artifacts instead of Jira, including mind maps for themes, just-in-time story slicing, mixed group backlog refinement, and lean coffee discussions with confidence voting. Following these steps is said to make meetings more lively and focused on shared understanding rather than tool updates.
Dejirafication - clean your process
- 1. Dejirafication free your process Alexey Krivitsky an agile2016 lightening talk
- 2. Most of us use some sort of backlog management tools…
- 3. There are many different ones… but i’ll just call them ‘jira’
- 4. From lean thinking perspective: managing the inventory is a non-value-adding activity
- 6. Jira issue list is beamed to the wall from a PO’s notebook - That’s how Most backlog refinement meetings look like.
- 7. Those meetings are made for the team to meet with the tool. Not for team collaboration. Robots control us.
- 8. Printed jira issues Time-boxed discussions Break-out groups working in parallel Updates to jira a;er the mee=ng Some ideas that I’ve tried to improve the meetings: Result: just less badly jirafied meetings.
- 9. Jirandicitis (or the ‘jira symptom’) An observable process when team collaboration (such as a meeting) is degrading to become a plain tool-updating activity (with a sole goal of updating the tool).
- 11. welcome to jira rehab program
- 12. One of my client joint my jira rehab program: We went back to paper:
- 13. We use A4 sheets for stories
- 14. Backlog refinement activities are much more lively
- 15. And is about building shared understanding of product & work
- 16. It also looks chaotic but this doesn’t meet it lacks structure
- 17. So how this works in practice? 4 steps to get clean
- 18. #1 mind-mapping for product themes – no more lists
- 19. #2 JIT story slicing – minimal inventories
- 20. I call this a ‘parmigiano method’: Grate fresh stories only when hungry.
- 21. #3 backlog refinement with shuffled groups – amplify learning
- 22. #4 shape discussions – lean coffee with confidence voting
- 23. Get clean today. #1 mind-mapping for product themes – no more lists #2 JIT story slicing – minimal inventories #3 backlog refinement with mixed teams – amplify learning #4 shape discussions – lean coffee with confidence voting Sign up for jira rehab program now!
- 24. Joint Backlog refinement This nicely scales for a multi-teams scrum setup
- 25. That’s how our multi-team sprint planning looks like
- 26. But that’s another story…
- 27. I offer jira rehab hugs. Approach me after the talk. Thank you! @alexeykrv