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Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 4 ..




This is a series of posts (Previous post about a hard pushing manager) that I am writing about the morale issues we faced in a team that increased its productivity levels over a period of months, making it one of the most productive teams in the company. However, the issue was about whether we reached [...]



Bug ageing – why it is important to follow in a software project – Part 3




In the previous 2 instances of this post (Bug ageing and software processes), I have been talking about the need to measure how much time it takes for the bugs generated by the QE team to get fixed, and to see whether taking more time for fixing such bugs is seen as a problem. In [...]



Expanding the Scrum process to a larger team, some problems ..




We were successfully running Scrum on a team that was just at the appropriate size, with around 8 people in the team, all well trained in Scrum and believing in the way forward being Scrum. They understood how to use Scrum, and had developed a nice understanding with the managers of the team to ensure [...]



Dividing a project into multiple milestones for tracking purposes




Our team was used to working on short projects, doing projects that had a total duration of between 2 /3 months. For such short projects, we would meet regularly (twice a week or more, depending on how close we were to the release), and would review status at each such meeting. In these meetings, based [...]