For the past 3 quarters the IAM team has been posting updates on our program progress every two weeks. The intent of this article is to describe how IAM does our Roadmap/Program Increment (PI) Planning and how to interpret the data posted in our bi-weekly Sprint Status reports.
Program Increment Planning: As a team we commit to quarterly objectives, and then update our progress against those objectives every two weeks publicly here on the IAM site. Jane Hill, Director of IAM Product Management, gave a presentation in 2017 at a local Boston Meetup that, while a bit dated now, does a very good job explaining how we break work down quarter over quarter. To understand the philosophy and challenges of planning check out the attached: Navigating the IAM Roadmap
End of Sprint Reports
Every two weeks we publish a progress report describing our progress against Commitment as Objectives for a given quarter which is comprised of 6 two-week sprints. Each progress report includes two documents, a summary report and a detail report.
The Detail Report
To describe the detail report we will refer to the report published at the end of PI-13 Sprint 4. The Detail report shows the ranked list of all priorities the IAM team is tracking for a given quarter. Each feature can have one of three distinctions:
For each feature the report shows, priority, expected value, target or completion dates for the work, current status, category of work, and primary customer. |
The Summary Report
The summary report is a bit of a misnomer as it actually summarizes feature progress, but also provides Operational statistics and Sprint over Sprint progress report. We will use the PI-13 Sprint 4 Summary Report to describe the elements of this report:
Goals Summary Each quarter the goals of the program will be categorized into 4 high level "buckets". The Goals Summary will describe feature breakdown and progress against each of those domains, as well as provide information about the yearly program goals, and overall progress. % Done will calculate the % of Completed or Differed Features as compared to all Committed Features at the time the report was generated. |
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Sprint Summary The intent is to provide a historical record of progress at the end of every 2 week sprint. It begins by providing summary statistics of Feature progress by status. The remaining columns indicate the progress of a given feature. The columns, and what it means when a feature appears in said column is as follows:
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Operational Activities Each sprint the IAM team responds to hundreds of operational requests. This section provides Operational data about each sprint, the total for the quarter (the gray row), and the total for the fiscal year (bottom row). The content of each row is as follows:
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While this article includes lots of detail we hope it provides some insight into our processes and that it can be of use for customers inside Harvard and beyond.
navigatingiamroadmap.pdf | 2.08 MB |