Agile Physics - The Math of Flow
Short explanations of how and why to apply math, probability, and statistics in Agile development. These are topics everyone should know, but are too scared to ask.
Course curriculum
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Welcome and about this course
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References, resources and thanks...
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System Utilization and Queuing Time
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System Utilization Key Points Pop Quiz
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Calculating the Financial Impact of High System Utilization
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Understanding the formula (only if interested - be brave)
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Paper: The single server queue in heavy traffic, Kingman 1961
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Amdahl's Law - Speedup in parallel systems
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Calculator: How much improvement do I get by adding more teams or people?
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Scaling by Adding Teams or People Pop Quiz
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Video: Understanding Cycle Time Distributions (history and intro)
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Interactive Article: Understanding Cycle Time Distribution Shapes
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Paper: The Economic Impact of Software Development Process Choice - Cycle-time Analysis and Monte Carlo Simulation Results
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Article: The Math and Science Behind Blocked (my blocker management SaaS application)
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Downloads: Presentation + Spreadsheet + Simulation Tools
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Calculator: How Many Samples Do I Need?
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Rule of Three - Approximation of "If it was there we should have seen it by now after n samples"
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Hypothesis Experiment Effect Size and Sample Count
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Calculator: Computing the Optimal Batch Size
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About this course
- Free
- 22 lessons
- 1 hour of video content
reviews
Useful, generous, rare insights
Rob McDonald
This is a good course that I think could usefully be bolted on to the spreadsheet courses available. I am grateful you have chosen to offer it for subscribers free right now but would happily recommend it to others. I use an ad blocker which meant...
Read MoreThis is a good course that I think could usefully be bolted on to the spreadsheet courses available. I am grateful you have chosen to offer it for subscribers free right now but would happily recommend it to others. I use an ad blocker which meant I could not rate this but please count this review as 5/5. Thanks again!
Read LessScience behind Agile - WOW !!!!
Piotr Wojcicki
This is the first time when I was able to see a scientific approach to agile. Thank you very much for your work!!!!
This is the first time when I was able to see a scientific approach to agile. Thank you very much for your work!!!!
Read LessBringing down concepts of agility to hard numbers
Matthew Croker
That is why I love this course.
That is why I love this course.
Read LessUseful, generous, rare insights
Rob McDonald
This is a good course that I think could usefully be bolted on to the spreadsheet courses available. I am grateful you have chosen to offer it for subscribers free right now but would happily recommend it to others. I use an ad blocker which meant...
Read MoreThis is a good course that I think could usefully be bolted on to the spreadsheet courses available. I am grateful you have chosen to offer it for subscribers free right now but would happily recommend it to others. I use an ad blocker which meant I could not rate this but please count this review as 5/5. Thanks again!
Read LessBe brave; It's just numbers :)
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