Comments on: Time Tracking is Essential to Agile Development http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/ A collection of useful tips, tales and opinions based on decades of collective experience designing and developing web sites and web-based applications. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: 2010 March | springerontheradio.com http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/comment-page-1/#comment-7967 2010 March | springerontheradio.com Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:20:50 +0000 http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-7967 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Time Tracking is Essential to Agile Development | Project management and time tracking blog for web ... [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Time Tracking is Essential to Agile Development | Project management and time tracking blog for web … [...]

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]]> By: list of scrum tools - Tool tips and more on Tools http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/comment-page-1/#comment-6589 list of scrum tools - Tool tips and more on Tools Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:08:06 +0000 http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-6589 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] Time Tracking is Essential to Agile Development Intervals ... your workday at 5pm because the app has already done it for you. It also seems that other online agile project management tools are beginning to come around and add time tracking as a feature. Feel free to contribute to this ... over at StackOverflow.com: Time Tracking and Agile Methodology Time Tracking in Scrum Related posts Online Time Tracking, Task Management and Project Management, ... [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> Kramer auto Pingback[...] Time Tracking is Essential to Agile Development Intervals … your workday at 5pm because the app has already done it for you. It also seems that other online agile project management tools are beginning to come around and add time tracking as a feature. Feel free to contribute to this … over at StackOverflow.com: Time Tracking and Agile Methodology Time Tracking in Scrum Related posts Online Time Tracking, Task Management and Project Management, … [...]

]]> By: John Reeve http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/comment-page-1/#comment-6371 John Reeve Tue, 04 May 2010 15:59:45 +0000 http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-6371 We've been there. Plenty of times. We call our code monkeys "mudders," because they are like racehorses that run well on a muddy racetrack. And we're familiar with the vanishing developer. Ultimately we solved the problem by always having our lead developer in house as a full time employee. We've learned the hard way that building and maintaining complex web applications with contract developers doesn't work. There a million things that can and will go wrong with the process. As long as you have one full time developer you have someone to bring in at those critical moments when the web app goes down and the client is breathing down your neck. If you are set on using contract developers the only advice I can give is to create enough lead time to accommodate communicating with the developers and allowing them room to get everything done. It's not the most efficient way, but is probably the only option, short of hiring them on full time. We’ve been there. Plenty of times. We call our code monkeys “mudders,” because they are like racehorses that run well on a muddy racetrack. And we’re familiar with the vanishing developer. Ultimately we solved the problem by always having our lead developer in house as a full time employee. We’ve learned the hard way that building and maintaining complex web applications with contract developers doesn’t work. There a million things that can and will go wrong with the process. As long as you have one full time developer you have someone to bring in at those critical moments when the web app goes down and the client is breathing down your neck.

If you are set on using contract developers the only advice I can give is to create enough lead time to accommodate communicating with the developers and allowing them room to get everything done. It’s not the most efficient way, but is probably the only option, short of hiring them on full time.

]]> By: Luke http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/comment-page-1/#comment-6368 Luke Mon, 03 May 2010 19:27:39 +0000 http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-6368 I'm curious how, if at all would your processes change if you were the owner of a small biz that utilized contract developers to both build and maintain a complex web application. I've struggled keeping communication flowing between my "lead" developer and short term developers. I've also felt at the mercy of the lead developer's priorities. He's a code monkey for a week or so, then other times it's like pulling teeth to get anything done. Granted, he also wears the sys admin & 2nd level help desk hats. However, it always seems like the helpdesk & sys admin tasks "magically" multiply whenever I've pushed for more development to get completed. I'd appreciate your ideas. I've tried about everything I can think of to motiviate and keep projects moving forward. I’m curious how, if at all would your processes change if you were the owner of a small biz that utilized contract developers to both build and maintain a complex web application. I’ve struggled keeping communication flowing between my “lead” developer and short term developers. I’ve also felt at the mercy of the lead developer’s priorities. He’s a code monkey for a week or so, then other times it’s like pulling teeth to get anything done. Granted, he also wears the sys admin & 2nd level help desk hats. However, it always seems like the helpdesk & sys admin tasks “magically” multiply whenever I’ve pushed for more development to get completed. I’d appreciate your ideas. I’ve tried about everything I can think of to motiviate and keep projects moving forward.

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]]> By: John Reeve http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/comment-page-1/#comment-6229 John Reeve Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:17:21 +0000 http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-6229 From the article: <blockquote> If you know how long a developer will require to get through his list of three pointers you can plan more accurate sprints that won’t burn out your developers. Developers may think it will take then a given number of hours to complete a task, but our time tracking data has shown that you have to double the developer’s estimate for a more accurate idea of how much time a task will require. In other words, time tracking data gives you a more accurate picture of how efficiently your team will perform a set of tasks. </blockquote> If you have data from previous sprints than you can more accurately plan upcoming sprints. Developers don't want to be stuck trying to hammer out the remainder of their tasks on the last day of the sprint just because the sprint was planned poorly. From the article:

If you know how long a developer will require to get through his list of three pointers you can plan more accurate sprints that won’t burn out your developers. Developers may think it will take then a given number of hours to complete a task, but our time tracking data has shown that you have to double the developer’s estimate for a more accurate idea of how much time a task will require. In other words, time tracking data gives you a more accurate picture of how efficiently your team will perform a set of tasks.

If you have data from previous sprints than you can more accurately plan upcoming sprints. Developers don’t want to be stuck trying to hammer out the remainder of their tasks on the last day of the sprint just because the sprint was planned poorly.

]]> By: nils http://www.myintervals.com/blog/2010/03/02/time-tracking-is-essential-to-agile-development/comment-page-1/#comment-6228 nils Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:56:20 +0000 http://www.myintervals.com/blog/?p=1340#comment-6228 it's funny you don't mention one argument why timetracking is essential for agile development. You're laying out why it's important for your company in regards to work as a software development service company. I would really like to know how you integrate the time tracking in your daily agile developement process? Not only tracking the time but also using the data. If it's just about the billing this has nothing to do with the agile process in special. Can you provide more insight e.g.: + How granular do you track and how did you come up with the clusters you book your time on? + How do you use the data in your process other than billing the hours to your client? it’s funny you don’t mention one argument why timetracking is essential for agile development. You’re laying out why it’s important for your company in regards to work as a software development service company. I would really like to know how you integrate the time tracking in your daily agile developement process? Not only tracking the time but also using the data. If it’s just about the billing this has nothing to do with the agile process in special.

Can you provide more insight e.g.:
+ How granular do you track and how did you come up with the clusters you book your time on?
+ How do you use the data in your process other than billing the hours to your client?

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