A Large Utility Organization Wants to Enhance Their Retrospectives and Improve How They Work

A large utility organization found that their team's retrospectives were becoming stale. The same opportunities for improvements were identified each sprint, and people no longer had faith in the idea of continuous improvement - nothing happened.

They engaged Comparative Agility with the hope of obtaining an effective way for teams to identify and communicate where they see challenges so she can improve retrospectives and ultimately boost their continuous improvement efforts.

-25% Average Lead Time Per Feature

Comparative Agility allowed the Coaches, ScrumMasters, and Agile Teams to quickly survey the teams and compare them to themselves at different points in time and to benchmark against over 2,000 companies in the World Index.

With this tool, teams could leverage data to identify areas of improvement on a regular basis; they built an improvement backlog and removed impediments to agility based on what the team indicated was important.

As a result, the teams were able to identified specific areas to target, measured improvements over time and provided extra support for challenges that needed extra attention.

After less than nine months of leveraging this process, this organization was able to reduce the average lead time per feature by more than 25%.

The team members enjoyed seeing how they were improving - it was inspiring to see howthey kept taking action on impediments that were meaningful to them. The norms within the teams were starting to change - continuous improvement was becoming part of their mindset.