One thing I love about Agile is the amount of time spent in meetings.\u00a0 Lots.<\/p>\n
On many teams we instituted a “no-afternoon” meeting rule too.\u00a0 There are stats that will tell you even a single IM interruption will take up to 25 minutes to recover from (you’d better look that up).\u00a0 These days our Shift Foremen really like to see our green light on and ask us “is it done yet, is it done yet??”\u00a0 Imagine how much time is wasted.<\/p>\n
Well honestly I (OK Gary-O just came on — “here in my car . . . “)\u00a0 uh uh honestly the one thing I can prove now, this moment, is the waste alot of organizations go through with these meetings due to poorly prepared management.\u00a0 And right now I work for one of those.<\/p>\n
Very plainly, the meetings are always late, and usually run over more tham the time alotted and solve very little.\u00a0 Weekly, we have at least one big meeting with several DBA’s, a few developers and a few QA.\u00a0 This manager’s meetings always run late, 15 minutes minimum.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So, eight people times 15 minutes is two hours wasted per week for the big meeting.<\/p>\n
Then, there’s the daily and that’s usually late and overruns.\u00a0 Since this meeting doesn’t start on the hour, most of a half hour is a wash.\u00a0 Anyway, every day another 15 over\/under times eight people = 10 hours a week.<\/p>\n
Conservatively, 12 hours a week is wasted by this manager.\u00a0 In month, that’s 48 hours.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If\u00a0 this person is\u00a0 there 50 weeks — the waste is 15 weeks of peoples’ time, almost 4 months.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Doing “Agile.”\u00a0 And that’s not counting all the extra things that happen due to the daily interruptions.\u00a0 We aren’t talking about team bonding etc.\u00a0 We are talking a person who is poorly prepared, runs late, runs over, and is disrespectful of others’ time.<\/p>\n
Now, most of the Huge Company, Incs. hire mouth breathers that need to be told exactly what to do.\u00a0 Also, the only place a lot of incompetents can hide is in the large hiring crowd of Huge Company, Inc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So time suck is unavoidable just by the stereotypes.<\/p>\n
Wow.\u00a0 So next time you buy that . . . whatever . . . imagine if 30% of the cost was due to a manager living the fast paced life of time suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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