Monday, February 22, 2010
Couple of years ago, few of my friends rolled out Scrum at our software development project. The managers loved burn down charts. One of the business analysts came to my office after his weekly 1:1 with his manager.
He said “my boss uses burn down chart to yell us at now”. I asked him what burn down chat. He said the individual burn down chart. I asked him “what was he doing before the Scrum?” He said “he yelled at us by looking at Gantt chart”.
It is not about what process/methodology you use to measure the productivity. It is about what you do with the data. You can yell with your direct reports to de-motivate them or you can use the data to coach your team to ship the product early.
It is up to you what do you do with those charts.
# posted by Balu Gandhi @ 10:59 PM
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