Story Delivery Management

This is a look at the contexts and properties of a fictitious story delivery management system.

• Goals

  • Visualize Status

  • Monitor Throughput

  • Monitor Budget

  • Provide Billing Data

  • Identify and Optimize Bottleneck

• Tenant (Story Delivery Company)

  • Contracted Estimate

  • Outstanding Estimate

  • Customer Actual

  • Customer Remaining

  • Customer Billed

• Customer

  • Contracted Estimate

  • Outstanding Estimate

  • Application Actual

  • Application Remaining

  • Application Billed

• Application

  • Contracted Estimate

  • Outstanding Estimate

  • Project Actual

  • Project Remaining

  • Project Billed

• Project

  • Project Estimate

  • Scope Estimate

  • Scope Actual

  • Scope Remaining

  • Billed

  • Kick-off

  • UAT

  • Delivery

• Team

• Schedule

• Discovery

  • Questions and answers from client discovery meetings

  • Outstanding questions (who and when will answer)

  • Can include standard questions based on templates that are specific to types of applications, projects, scopes, and features

    • Website

    • Mobile Site

    • Content Management Site

    • Marketing Site

    • Custom Application

    • Mobile Application

    • API Service

    • ETL Data Processing

• Scope

  • Scope of work - highest level bounded context

  • Risk level of each scope

  • Low Estimate

  • High Estimate

  • Scope Estimate

  • Feature Estimate

  • Feature Actual

  • Feature Remaining

  • Billed

• Feature

  • Name

  • Description (optional list of stories, story steps or more information on feature)

  • Scope

  • Area

    • Web

    • Mobile

    • API

    • Backend

  • High Estimate

  • Low Estimate

  • Feature Estimate

  • ScenarioEstimate

  • Scenario Actual

  • ScenarioRemaining

  • Billed

  • Owner

  • Tags

  • Developers

  • Application

• Scenario

  • Name

  • Description

  • Feature

  • Acceptance Criteria

  • Story Estimate

  • Priority

  • Dependencies

  • Task Estimate

  • Task Actual

  • Task Remaining

  • Billed

  • Status (e.g. New, In Process, Blocked, Done, Cancelled)

  • Work Center (e.g. backlog, ready, dev, uat, stage, prod)

  • Start

  • Finish

  • Owner

  • Tags

  • Assigned

• Task

  • Name

  • Story

  • Definition of Done

  • Revenue Center

  • Status

  • Start

  • Finish

  • Owner

  • Tags

  • Assigned

  • Estimate Log (original, remaining)

    • Owner

    • Estimate

  • Actual Effort Log

    • Owner

    • Start

    • Finish

    • Note

  • Billed Log

    • Owner

    • Invoice

• Reporting

  • Effort vs Actual

  • Avg Time By Work Center

  • Avg Lead Time By Work Type -

  • Cycle Time - time from work start to work finish

  • Control Chart

  • Cummulative Flow

  • Work Recycle - items recycled because of failing test, blockers, or other reason.