Debugging your Engineering Team Planning

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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 might have underperforming engineers. This is not pleasant to manage. There are books on people management. I will not dig into that here other than to say: you should be doing regular check-ins on individual performance regardless of how your team is performing. Identify scope creep Scope creep happens when an existing task changes requirements. Changing requirements Are you constantly...

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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 a lot of stakeholders asking for “quick” fixes and features. It also happens to any team being asked for any kind of work. How To Identify Under-Accounting Ask yourself: does your team routinely take on work you didn’t plan for? If the answer is ‘Yes,’ then you might be under accounting. Other forms of under-accounting include the following: Not planning...

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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 To Identify Underestimating As a manager, evaluate your team. Are you missing project milestones? “Miss” is relative to the complexity and timescale of the project or task. In a multi-month project, are you off by a few days or a few weeks? Are you missing milestones and sprint goals consistently? People make mistakes, and no one is a perfect estimator,...

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How does your team plan?

ça depend! Un réponse plus interessant - le utilisiation des points pour l'estimation est dependant sur la situation particulier.

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