Debugging your Engineering Team Planning
Why any of this Matters
Your success as an engineering manager relies on your ability to deliver reliably. If people around you do not trust you to do that, you will not succeed. How to...
Why any of this Matters
Your success as an engineering manager relies on your ability to deliver reliably. If people around you do not trust you to do that, you will not succeed. How to...
Problem 3: Underdelivering
Maybe your team’s estimates are bang on, but they take twice as long to complete tasks as they should. How To Identify Underdelivering Give your team a performance review You...
Problem 3: Underdelivering
Maybe your team’s estimates are bang on, but they take twice as long to complete tasks as they should. How To Identify Underdelivering Give your team a performance review You...
Problem 1: Under Accounting
Under-accounting happens when the team works on unexpected tasks. This happens a lot to teams who are responsible for a lot of technical debt, maintain a support queue, or have...
Problem 1: Under Accounting
Under-accounting happens when the team works on unexpected tasks. This happens a lot to teams who are responsible for a lot of technical debt, maintain a support queue, or have...
Problem 2: Underestimating
Note: if you are under-accounting, you need to fix that before you fix underestimating. Whether estimating with Fibonacci points or in days, engineers are pretty notorious for underestimating work. How...
Problem 2: Underestimating
Note: if you are under-accounting, you need to fix that before you fix underestimating. Whether estimating with Fibonacci points or in days, engineers are pretty notorious for underestimating work. How...
How does your team plan?
It depends. A longer TL;DR answer — The use of story point estimation is situational. Not every team benefits from a process as heavy as point-based estimation. Points are used...
How does your team plan?
It depends. A longer TL;DR answer — The use of story point estimation is situational. Not every team benefits from a process as heavy as point-based estimation. Points are used...