I was directly responsible for a few OKRs, one of which was a major win:
Through process improvements and statistical analysis, our ability to accurately predict how much work teach team could accomplish was drastically improved.
I tracked our 4-sprint trailing mean and variance, capacity adjusted, for each team. We reduced variance by 40% through various means:
- Stopped over-stuffing sprints (the easy one). We targeted sprints at 1 standard deviation below mean so obviously our variance would go down. However, we did not reduce our mean! This means that our average over-production made up for our reduction in target. We were pushing ahead most sprints as a result.
- Focused on completion of tickets. Reducing our WIP enabled improved focus and more consistent delivery.