Was on: Friday 14th February
12:30pm (Universal Time Coordinated / UTC) which is also
12:30pm (Greenwich Mean Time / GMT)
We talked about…
- Advice on visually measuring outcomes that are organisational change related not product or service
- Estimating – yay or nay?
- Minimal viable teams
- What are your top ways to create a sense of responsibility for time spent on developing features
Notes and comments from the meetup
Advice on visually measuring outcomes that are organisational change related not product or service
Tool we to measure engagement: https://officevibe.com/
https://labs.spotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
Accelerate includes organisational culture and uses Westrum
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Technology-Organizations/dp/1942788339
https://www.atlassian.com/team-playbook/health-monitor
https://blog.crisp.se/2019/03/11/jimmyjanlen/health-checks-for-teams-and-leadership
https://www.teamretro.com/health-checks/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Lencioni/dp/0787960756
Estimating – yay or nay?
https://pragprog.com/book/gdestimate/software-estimation-without-guessing
my fave approach to estimation: https://lizkeogh.com/2013/07/21/estimating-complexity/
https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/velocity-should-be-renamed-future-tech-debt/
Coming from a dev background, one of the reasons that devs can be reluctant to give estimates is that all too often what started as an estimate then becomes a hard deadline given to customers/stakeholders that they are then pressured to stick to.
Minimal viable teams
“A team is a small number of people with complementary skills who are committed to a common purpose, set of performance goals, and approach for which they hold themselves mutually accountable.” – Katzenbach & Smith.
https://emilywebber.co.uk/agile-team-onion-many-pizzas-really-take-feed-team/
What are your top ways to create a sense of responsibility for time spent on developing features
https://medium.com/productmanagement101/spotify-squad-framework-part-i-8f74bcfcd761
Calibrated estimates https://tcagley.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/how-to-measure-anything-chapter-5-calibrated-estimates-how-much-do-you-know-now/
https://twitter.com/branaby/status/1226042896488574976 “We did a sprint retro yesterday, and one thing we considered was how we hindered other people. And it was great! So often we look at the people and processes that got in *our* way, but how often do we reflect on the damage that *we* are doing?”