Matt welcomes his first-ever guest to the podcast!
Adam Bullied, COO at Circus, joins to discuss the use of flow metrics in at startup environment. Adam shares his experiences with implementing flow metrics, and covers the real-world benefits he has realized through visualizing and actively managing work in progress.
We also explore the importance of these metrics for forecasting and improving the quality of discussions around predictability, emphasizing the value of collaboration and communication with stakeholders.
Adam also talks about fighting against the the natural reflex to treat ‘how long will it take?’ as an engineering estimation question, and instead providing an answer rooted in data.