Team Management

The aspect of “transaction cost” for doing a particular thing once or multiple times is interesting.

Starting a bunch of things in parallel will often lead to many being finished at a similar point in time, often all at once and leading to the dreaded ‘big bang integration’, which even in short sprints may be painful enough already.

That said, I love starting multiple things at once. Sometimes being ‘stuck’ on the same thing and not having some other outlet or diversion to put your mind to makes a task take longer. Having the ‘diversion’ often gives me more energy to breeze through the other task… and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s not scientific.

An interesting look at how long lead times from idea to specification to implementation to release can cause waste in the software development process.

An interesting and apt breakdown of team types. I work in neither a product nor a feature team at the moment but am trying to add more product thinking into my own work and then my team’s.