Track where time actually goes. Most teams discover something like:
• 40% planned work
• 35% unplanned work
• 15% interruptions
• 10% meetings
Once visible, you can fix the system.#Software #Dev #Agile #Smells
@dectentoo You don't even need to track it precisely, or all the time. I've had a team track their time in such buckets for a week, and only in increments of an hour or more, preferably in half-days.
@gdinwiddie Useful diagram. I agree and I've also seen worse, where teams had a timesheet code to track the time for entering timesheets 🤯
@dectentoo I once asked for such a code at an employer that wanted to subdivide work into way too many categories. That requirement went away, though, after I split my programming 50/50 between programming and testing since I was doing TDD. They didn't like that because they couldn't capitalize testing.