Re:Developers Should Abandon Agile
by some_account on Thursday May 10, 2018 @05:28PM
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It doesn't matter to Enterprise that money is being lost. It's millions every day being wasted and they are still there, going strong. They are no longer competing because income is automatic and guaranteed unless they do something catastrophic.
Also, without paid overtime, workers are often expected to make up productivity outside of the meetings.
Re:Developers Should Abandon Agile
by blablabla123 on Friday May 11, 2018 @04:21PM
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Yeah but imagine such a large group having an unproductive week because people have to wait for each other or because of miscommunication think they have to wait. Or spend time on a non-sensical task because everybody thought they everybody knows what they are up to.
After all even a 3 hours meeting is less than 10% of the work week...
I would like to see a timer on the desk during meetings, not showing the elapsed time, but the total wage bill the meeting is costing. I think that should concentrate minds a little
Here's a tip: calculate the cost of every meeting by taking your salary (or an estimate of the average salary in the room), dividing by 52 and then again by 40, doubling it, and multiplying by the number of people and then again by the number of hours in the meeting. Alternatively, nevermind the salary calculations: subjecting 13 people to a 3 hour meeting wastes roughly a full-time human-week of productivity.