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Episode 2 Results and "Scrum: the art of doing twice the work in half the time"
🕑 Added 2021-09-14 16:52:23 +0000 UTCHey Guys!
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I analyzed our finances, and we have enough money to support 3 new people on our team (besides the 3 trained people and the 2 recruits under training). I have to decide the 3 new roles we need the most in the team.
I’m reading a book about project management called “Scrum: The art of doing twice the work in half the time“. It talks about an FBI project from 2006 of replacing paper processes with purely digital workflows. The project cost +$400 million and had over 400 people in it and after several delays, the project was restarted under a new management style called “Scrum”. With Scrum, they cut the team size to 45 people, the new budget was 10x lower, and the productivity increased by 300%.
As I read the book, I’ll be implementing this new knowledge into our small team and I’ll keep you updated about our progress.
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Comments
OppaiMan
I agree with that. It's like sharpening your blade.
Mr. X
This is going to sound a little counter-intuitive but....improving the way you work is more important than doing the work.
OppaiMan
I'm still reading the book and I'll make changes at the right moment.
Lee Chieffalo
He is right. There is a community Jira version you can use if the user count is small. I think 10 or less for free.
Zojitzu Miri
Yeah some tools that I've used on the teams I've worked on are Jira and Azure DevOps. Jira IMO feels quite a bit better to use. I think it'll streamline your process to where you'll gauge how much work you can get done in 2 or 3 week sprints. Track your development over time to see what areas will be challenging and when it comes time to plan the next set of milestones, you can get a sense of what the workload will be. If I recall, there may be a Jira app you can download to your phone, and just manage your daily chores. It might help with actively learning this type of management style and putting the reading into practice.
Lee Chieffalo
My development teams operate on scrum. It works great for planned work that can be tracked and measured. Which is what you are doing. I’m an ops guy so scrum-ban is more up my alley but it’s a good system once you get it down.
