Agile and Beyond 2018

Does work grind to a halt whenever your team’s star developer goes on vacation? Do some work items spend a very long time waiting for input from senior members of your team or program? Does your team struggle with highly variable flow of work? Did The Phoenix Project’s Brent problem sound a little too familiar? A skills liquidity matrix can be used to help a team self organize around work and skills matchups. Additionally, this simple tool can help leaders plot a course for maturing the performance and Agile practice of a team or value stream. This session covers how and why to create and use a skills liquidity matrix to smooth the flow of work and increase the ability to absorb variability.