Thinking Inside the Box – Root Cause Analysis with The Six Boxes
Do you want to improve business and user value delivery, quality, efficiency, and productivity of your software engineering team? OK, that’s a stupid question because who doesn’t? Poor productivity problems, quality issues, failing to meet commitments, and general team inefficiencies are, unfortunately, still commonplace. And what is at the root of most problems? James Waletzky says the answer is those highly imperfect creatures—humans. So how do we go about fixing the problems? First, we must discover the root causes, not just the symptoms, and those are not always obvious. In this hands-on tutorial, James focuses on a methodology called Human Performance Improvement (HPI)—with a framework called “The Six Boxes”—to find root causes of human performance issues. And then we need to think outside the proverbial box to identify solutions. Join James to examine multiple case studies from agile software development to determine the real underlying problems with these teams, and then explore creative ways to solve them. Leave with a very simple tool to help identify and fix some of your team's issues.