Hyper-Productive Agile

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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
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. Although each of these has their own pros and cons, they do allow some degree of comparison between projects. This is useful for drawing distinctions between those teams that are better than their peers.

Hyper-productivity describes a state of being where teams are working at much higher levels of performance such as two, three and four times more productive than their peers. In the past two decades, research has emerged about agile (Scrum most prominently) teams achieving hyper-productive results through the use of agile methods. But these teams are not just doing Scrum-…

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