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List:       extremeprogramming
Subject:    Re: [XP] More Challenges - Big Visible Charts
From:       "Jeff Grigg" <jeffgrigg () charter ! net>
Date:       2004-09-30 14:39:26
Message-ID: cjh5qu+ll7c () eGroups ! com
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> --- Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@X...> wrote:
>> What chart or other reporting mechanism are you using
>> to show /your manager/ the results of this reality on
>> the project?

--- "Dave Rooney" <dave.rooney@m...> wrote:
> So what are you trying to say, Ron? ;)
> 
> Our stories and task list are kept in spreadsheets that
> are kept in our SourceSafe repository.

(...to keep people from changing it, I assume.  ;-)

> A common complaint is that people aren't updating their
> tasks, and that people aren't reading the stories.  [...]
> 
> The bottom line is that there are no BigVisibleCharts of
> any sort.  [...]  I have thought of [...]

Take the task estimates, and the tasks that were completed *ON TIME* 
for each iteration.  "Forget" that they were estimated in days, and 
just call the numbers "points."  Now draw a graph of "points" the 
team promised to do in each iteration, and actual "points" finished 
*ON TIME* at the end of each iteration.

After a time, one can ask, "Why don't we promise to deliver something 
like what we've *ACTUALLY BEEN ABLE TO DELIVER* in one or two 
previous iterations?!?



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