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Could you elaborate more? I'm a bit confused. The first one seems to do the wrong thing because there is no mention of any stakeholder at all. Getting it worki
by tanin 7y ago
Could you elaborate more? I'm a bit confused.
The first one seems to do the wrong thing because there is no mention of any stakeholder at all. Getting it working first is great though.
The second one seems to do the right thing by demoing to stakeholders first. Then, it goes on to make it web scale with buzzwords (which doesn't seem good).
The best combination seems to be: 1. demoing to higher up and 2. JIT (I'm not familiar with the word, but I get what you mean).
- alfiedotwtf 7y agoIn the second case, because sprint velocity was on the up and the walls were covered full of bright colours, it looked like they were doing lots of work. The actually were doing lots of work, but none that the stakeholders cared about. The second team emphasised the importants of scale and how they were going to solve that problem. The apps to run on top seemed to slip everyone's minds because ticket were being closed hitting KPIs.
- k1t 7y agoWhen faced with building a simple web page, Team 1 spends a couple of days producing a single static html page and builds on it as necessary. Team 2 spends 6 months showing upper management architecture diagrams and flashy mockups. They blow a million dollars on cloud hosting their load balanced web servers. They've got Kafka, ElasticSearch, triple redundant SQL servers, and a 12 person team to run it all. But when asked to present the actual page they announce that nobody on the team knows HTML and they just kind of assumed somebody else would do that part. Non-technical managers cannot tell the difference between the two teams.
- alfiedotwtf 7y agolol, reading your description made me think you were there too... but you said $1M rather than $6M :)