[Tim Cramer] "We’ve talked a lot about the importance of our agile practices and delivery, as we drive engineering excellence. This includes having each team begin to measure their own capacity and velocity, so we can measure if changes are improving per team. Having a more accurate estimate of capacity will help set the right expectations for what can be delivered, and when - helping with over-committing and burnout. This objective supports these efforts. It’s also strengthened by the recent announcement[3] of the Agile Leadership Team (ALT) and the Modeling Agile, Strategy, and Coaching (MASC) group joining forces to form the Coalition for Agile and Tooling (CAT).

Our objective is to: Establish a culture of predictability, continuous improvement, and shared responsibility for quality and fostering agility across the organization. Understand our capacity with the goal of setting reasonable expectations for our stakeholders.

Our key results to achieve this include (see the blog post for all details):

• Make great strides in teams estimating work. The near-term key result here is estimating 70% of all eligible JIRA in-progress work items by the end of Q2.

• By the end of Q3, all teams have identified Continuous Improvement actions, logged it in their unified backlog, and implemented an improvement.

• By the end of Q3, 100% of teams should have an internally visible team-based Definition of Done (DoD) in place for getting a single JIRA item to Done."

[1] Product Engineering April all hands meeting - https://source.redhat.com/departments/products_and_global_engineering/p_and_ge_content/p_and_ge_blog_channel/product_engineering_all_hands_meeting_april_4_recap 

[2] Product Engineering CY24 OKRs on The Source - https://source.redhat.com/groups/public/productengineering_okrs/engineering_okrs_blog/product_engineering_cy2024_objectives_and_key_results 

[3] ALT and MASC join to become CAT -  https://source.redhat.com/departments/products_and_global_engineering/p_and_ge_content/p_and_ge_blog_channel/alt_and_masc_join_to_become_cat