Hyper-Productive Agile

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Hyper-Productive Agile

Ryan Shriver

April 26, 2010





Today it is generally recognized that agile teams outperform traditional “waterfall” teams with respect to productivity and time to market. What is less well-known is that while some agile teams are 25 to 50 percent more productive than their traditional peers, others are 400 to 800 percent more productive.

So what are these hyper-productive teams doing differently to achieve such extraordinary results? This article introduces you to the key practices used by Scrum teams around the world to achieve hyper-productive results--practices your team can apply right now.

Productivity and Hyper Productivity
There is no one single, agreed upon definition and measurement of productivity. In this article we use the term to generally mean “the efficiency of a team at turning inputs into useful outputs”.

With respect to measurement of productivity within software development, there are a few generally accepted ways to measure productivity including function points and lines of code.



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