What should you do if the team only has enough well-understood stories to keep half the developers busy? One answer is to implement poorly-understood stories just to keep the developers busy. Another is to have the un-needed developers work to increase the capacity of the team as a whole (automation, training, refactoring).
Ohno in Toyota Production System tells the story of a team that only had enough work for 3.5 people. If the work is spread equally between the whole team then it's hard to see that the team has spare capacity. If instead you load 3 people 100%, then the half idle time of the fourth member is obvious. If the team can improve their productivity a little they can free up one person to contribute elsewhere. Kent Beck Three Rivers Institute -----Original Message----- From: Shane Mingins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 11:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [XP] A Plug-in to XP: XA (eXtreme Analysis) >> case study presentation --- Kent Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Theory of Constraints and Lean Manufacturing > both suggest that sometimes > people should not be busy. Could u perhaps expand on this a bit. It has been a years since I read TOC (as well as The Goal and The Race) so I cannot recall how this works. Thanks Shane ===== Shane Mingins [EMAIL PROTECTED] please remove clothes before emailing __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ad-free courtesy of objectmentor.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extremeprogramming/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
