Book Titles

The Rock Crusher
A Model for Flow-Based Backlog Management

By Hastie Shane, Ryland Leyton, Steve Adolph

Year Published: 2023
ISBN-13: 978-1927584347
Categories: Backlogs, Flow, Management

38 Quotes Found

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The Rock Crusher:

The team delivers the best value when it has a steady flow of the right work…

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The Rock Crusher:

Crushers in the backlog are visual representations of the important analysis work required to properly refine a rock.

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The Rock Crusher:

The crusher creates economic value by reducing the risk of building the wrong thing and aligning the team on the ultimate solution.

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The Rock Crusher:

…’hangovers’… work that was pulled and committed in a specific iteration is rolling over into the next and even subsequent iterations.

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The Rock Crusher:

Hangovers indicate that either work items are too large or too much work is being forced through the thin pipe, exceeding the team’s capacity.

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The Rock Crusher:

The product owner role, or any similar role such as the XP customer representative, is arguably the critical success factor for an agile team.

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The Rock Crusher:

Many of the challenges agile teams encounter can be traced back to an unavailable, disengaged, or indecisive product owner.

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The Rock Crusher:

The backlog owner is accountable for managing and maximizing the value delivered by the team. The solution owner is accountable for managing and maximizing the value created by the solution.

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The Rock Crusher:

Agile teams have one simple rule when it comes to roles: you do whatever it takes to help your team get the job done.

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The Rock Crusher:

Whether this rock is well formed or not depends on the team’s tacit knowledge.

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