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This sounds sensible and effective, and fairly similar to experience on effective XP teams. Two things are different to the XP approach. Firstly, you track exp
by twic 4y ago
This sounds sensible and effective, and fairly similar to experience on effective XP teams.
Two things are different to the XP approach. Firstly, you track expected work capacity at the level of individuals, rather than the whole team. Secondly, you use estimates of work capacity, rather than the "yesterday's weather" approach of assuming it will be the same as last week.
Do you think there are advantages to doing it your way?
- burlesona 4y agoSorry if I wasn't clear, in the method I'm describing each engineer is tracking and forecasting their own capacity one week at a time. We discuss it briefly as a team to gut-check each other's forecasts and learn from misses as a group. Misses are almost always unexpected interrupts, so talking about what did we fail to see last week and then checking what might we be missing in the plan for this week is the essence of the whole thing. Having never done XP I can't say if the differences are better, I can only say that this basic approach works pretty well :)