Hi Dave ...
If progress is predictable and good, is estimation in more concrete terms
your highest priority for improvement? What other issues might be near the
top of your list, or that of your boss or customer?
Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com
Think! -- Aretha Franklin
On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 6:09:39 AM, Dave Rooney wrote:
> Just to recap... our team had lost its focus on delivering stories, and
> our task-level estimates in actual time weren't all that good. We were
> still delivering features, but not as well as we had been. We have
> since moved our focus to the story level, and we're estimating in points
> rather than hours. Couple that with the ruthless application of
> Yesterday's Weather and we're again hitting our targets for completed
> features. I would like to be able to move to a more concrete
> measurement of story size, but we're just not very good at it yet.
> I guess the bottom line is that our team is quite good, and we're
> shipping production software at a rate that other teams in this client's
> organization envy. However, we're not perfect and still have work to do
> in order to optimize our process.
> Regarding time spent evaluating tools, etc., I spent about 8 hours last
> week doing precisely that. I usually have a quick glance at something,
> then run it by the team before going in depth. Our boss is very good at
> asking, "Do we really need to do that now?", and is equally good at
> listening to us if we say "Yes!".
End quotation from Dave Rooney, on Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 6:09:39 AM
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