John W Colby
jwcolby at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 17:57:05 CDT 2009
Understood. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Salakhetdinov Shamil wrote: > Hi John, > > When we talked originally on this project it was planned to do it in one month with every team member spending not more than one hour within a working day, which totals to 20-22 hours per member per month - approx. 100 hours for 5 team members. (Note: anybody can spend that five hours within one day within a week if they have free time or split them within two days etc. but it's important to have equal amount of total time spent every week - important for planning/predictability etc. - to calculate team velocity...) > > If we will not fit 100 hours max value some of the ProductBackLog items will be left undone - then ProductOwner can decide shall there be a follow-up or not - this is how SCRUM process handles ProductBackLog items based on realistic approach/assumption/real life experience that if project time frame was underestimated then there should be some ProductBackLog items left undone: SCRUM team shouldn't work extra hours (for free) etc. to get all the work done... > > Yes, that may sound idealistic on first glance but the more projects a team completes the more precise their estimations become, and the more trust is created between team + SCRUMMaster and ProductOwner + StakeHolders/Users - the latter know/trust that SCRUM team does their best... > > Somehere in the middle when it will be more clear how well we perform (or earlier or later) ProductOwner could rearrange ProductBackLog items implementation sequence to have as much as possible and the most required items done within given (left) time frame (and budget in real life case)... > > Maybe I'm too optimistic but I currently suppose we should make all the forms/reports in less than 100 hours... > > Thank you. > > -- > Shamil > > -----Original Message----- > From: John W Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> > To: Salakhetdinov Shamil <mcp2004 at mail.ru>, "Discussion concerning Visual Basic and related programming issues." <dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com> > Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:05:00 -0400 > Subject: Re: [dba-VB] [AccessD] SCRUM: Northwind .NET Product BackLogPlanningGame... > > >> Is the max value a preconceived notion that we must fit? If the total >> value is higher than 100 hours then the process should be able to handle >> that. >> >> John W. Colby >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> >