Technical requirements
This chapter will refer to the idea of tracking our work and collecting information about that work. How you do that, we don’t care. A particularly high-functioning team with high trust might just put sticky notes on a board, use a marker, and use running, tested features as the primary measure of progress. At the time of writing, it is far more common to use a tool such as Jira, Trello, or Microsoft Teams to track work and then perhaps export the data into a spreadsheet to gather the metrics. This book will provide solutions for both extremes and most people in the middle. Having access to these tools so that you can gather the data yourself will allow you to internalize the lessons of this chapter, and it is likely to provide key information to decision-makers. Having access to those tools and reviewing them could help demonstrate the validity of our ideas. On the other hand, a lack of these tools may help you realize what you are missing.
A few years...