I saw a presentation by Scott Downey last night at Agile SoCal on hyperproductive Scrum teams. Downey defines a hyperproductive team as a team that achieves a...
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Chet Hendrickson
suechet
Jun 21, 2012 5:45 pm
Hello Paul, Please describe the process that this 'productivity measure' will be input to. What is its purpose? chet Thursday, June 21, 2012, 1:27:06 PM, you...
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Paul Epps
paulepps
Jun 21, 2012 6:27 pm
Hi Chet - ... Downey described the purpose with this user story: AS A Scrum Product Owner who is trying to evaluate the efficacy of the product directions I...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jun 21, 2012 6:28 pm
I suspect the relationship is backwards here: We should be finding that the bigger the stories a team works on, the slower the team would increase its ...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jun 21, 2012 6:33 pm
What else contributes to revenue changes? How can knowing how much the team delivered differentiate among all those contributions to revenue changes? Root...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jun 21, 2012 6:38 pm
Paul, On 6/21/12 1:27 PM, Paul Epps wrote: [snip] ... Any ideas on how to measure team productivity? - George -- ... * George Dinwiddie *...
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RonJeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jun 21, 2012 6:43 pm
Hi Paul, ... That strikes me as ... how can I put this nicely ... overly indirect. It's a red herring. I suspect the real purpose of wanting to know this is to...
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RonJeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jun 21, 2012 6:45 pm
George ... ... Any ideas on WHY to measure team productivity? Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Wisdom begins when we understand the difference between "that...
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George Dinwiddie
gdinwiddie
Jun 21, 2012 7:04 pm
Ron, ... Another good question. My initial point is that the rest of the sentence is superfluous. Even if we think we have a good reason (or are just curious),...
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RonJeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jun 21, 2012 7:17 pm
Hi George, ... Yes, I do fully agree, of course. In addition, I've never seen a proposed measure that I could not immediately game to my advantage. Ron...
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Dave Rooney
daverooneyca
Jun 21, 2012 7:42 pm
Hi Paul, ... I saw Scott give a presentation with Jeff Sutherland at Agile 2010 about this. During the session, I called BS to all of the numbers he and Jeff...
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Adrian Howard
ajh65537
Jun 21, 2012 7:50 pm
... The scary thing about that metric is that I've seen too many places where they would consider more pizza orders to be a *good* thing :-) Adrian -- ...
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M. Manca
micronpn
Jun 21, 2012 7:54 pm
Il 21/06/2012 21:17, RonJeffries ha scritto: Hi Ron and George, the point is always the same, some questions seem done by a manager that needs to know when...
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Paul Epps
paulepps
Jun 21, 2012 11:20 pm
... Good observation! Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. pe...
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Tim Ottinger
linux_tim
Jun 22, 2012 9:17 pm
... What is the relation between the two? If the value is low, would you improve it by increasing or decreasing the rate of production? It sounds to me...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jun 23, 2012 8:30 am
... Knowledge Gained, divided by Time. ;->...
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JeffGrigg
jeffgrigg63132
Jun 23, 2012 8:36 am
... Oh; so all I have to do to be hyper-productive is start out really crappy. Hey; I think I can do that! >;->...
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Steve Freeman
smg_freeman
Jun 24, 2012 11:01 am
... funny you should say that.... have you seen the baseline Sutherland's team started from? S....
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agileadam8
Jun 28, 2012 10:31 am
Dear Practitioners, There is a great opportunity to contribute to the knowledge of lean and agile development! We are looking for...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Jun 28, 2012 6:50 pm
Hi, Adam, Where did you get the idea that organizations with lean and agile approaches have no plan?? Kay Pentecost ... <snip>...
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Darian Lanx
darianlanx
Jun 28, 2012 7:26 pm
... Just to jump on the bandwagon. I would also like to know where that misconception comes from. -d [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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RonJeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jun 28, 2012 7:28 pm
I did not see anyone saying that lean / agile approaches have no plan. Did I miss a memo? R ... Ron Jeffries www.XProgramming.com Everything that needs to be...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Jun 28, 2012 8:54 pm
Hey, Ron, It's a point of a pre-assumption. The OP wrote: "A number of researches have shown that organizations move from their plan-driven approaches toward...
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Steven Gordon
sfman2k
Jun 28, 2012 9:07 pm
Hi Adam, The whole premise that opinion surveys in any way contribute to actual research is totally flawed, unless your work is being done in a field such as...
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Adam SoliĆski
agileadam8
Jun 28, 2012 9:20 pm
Hi everybody, First, I would like to thank you for your interest in the survey. Could you indicate where the idea of "no plan" is mentioned in the survey? That...
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RonJeffries
RonaldEJeffries
Jun 28, 2012 9:24 pm
Hi Kay, ... That is correct, at least for Agile. Agile is not plan driven. Not being plan-driven does not mean "does not have a plan". The term might be seen...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Jun 28, 2012 9:31 pm
Hi, Adam, I didn't take the survey, and I won't, so I can't show you where *anything* is mentioned in the survey. I did quote, in my previous post, exactly...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Jun 28, 2012 9:31 pm
+1...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Jun 28, 2012 9:59 pm
Hey everybody, Are Plan-Driven Methodologies limited to RUP, PSP and TSP? When did the term appear first? And in what context? Did the term originate in the...
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Kay A Pentecost
tranzpuppy
Jun 28, 2012 9:59 pm
Hey, Ron, After checking Google, I see that there is an accepted definition for plan-driven methodologies, so I retract my comment for people who knew that ...
