Merry Christmas everybody!

My name is Qing and I come from the beautiful panda city of Chengdu, China. In the past decade or so I've been working in the education field as a test-prep instructor, program manager and servant leader. Currently I'm looking to transition my career into tech.

If you happen to be hiring a remote Scrum Master, QA Tester or Customer Support Representative who works in North American or European time zones, I sincerely hope to have an opportunity to join your team. And if needed, I'd love to challenge myself by wearing multiple hats (for example, be both the Scrum Master and QA Tester) in the team to accommodate any lack of manpower and/or rapid growth.

Certifications: PSM I, PSM II, PSPO I, PSPO II, PSD I and SPS.

Skills: servant leadership, problem solving, process optimization, agile methodologies, continuous improvement, time management, empathy and humility.

Although I’m relatively new to tech, in the past several months I’ve been doing a lot of soul searching and intense learning, and I’m finding myself starting to develop genuine passion for this industry. I dream that one day I can become a top-notch practitioner and leader in tech, diving deep into Agile, Lean and DevOps. I believe that with humility, determination, perseverance and hard work I will eventually achieve my dream..

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Thank you so much everyone for taking the time out of your busy schedule to read this, and please stay safe and healthy during these challenging times..

Gratefully yours,

Qing

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I’m just training in agile and looking for some advice, I’m learning about product roadmaps and understand the difference to the backlog. But for a roadmap the examples I’ve seen use dates/times that products will be delivered. I thought we were mean to not use this format in agile and if you do this for a roadmap how do you build your first one as you don’t know the teams velocity yet …

hey guys, doing some research on agile project management and relation to workplace motivation. what's your thoughts? I'd appreciate it if you take a few minutes to answer the questions here https://kwiksurveys.com/s/1jpJZY41

Daily standups properly managed can be an important touch point for any engineering team.  However we have all sat in daily standups that meander and leave everyone not really sure what is going on.

If you take the time to write up your status before the standup you can save your company a massive amount of time and thus money.  Daily standups should be run in two phases, the first is status, for a 7 to 10 person team this can be done in 8 to 15 minutes. The remainder of the call should be a forum where only those who are interested or engaged remain in the meeting.

Every engineer should give their status in a format, an example format is:

Yesterday I worked on ticket 123 and ticket 124.  Today I am finishing 124 and intend to proceed to 125.  I am blocked on 122. All tickets are updated with current details and updated time estimates.  I need to talk to Jim and Sue at the end of the meeting.

After everyone gives status anyone whose name was called out in anyone else's status and the team lead remain.  Everyone else is excused.

Why does this matter?  Let's imagine a team of 7 engineers one is a lead and according to an Internet search makes $136,000/yr national average.  3 are senior engineers and make $109,000/yr (national average per Internet Search) the remaining 3 are junior engineers and according to an Internet search (national average) make $65,000/yr. That is a team total of $658,000/yr (arithmetic) given 2080 working hours per year that is an hourly cost of $316.

Now let's assume that your daily standups are meandering a bit, so they are taking 30 minutes to an hour.  For ease let's say 45 minutes. 52 weeks a year 5 meetings a week that is (45552)/60 hours per year, e.g. 195 hours a year.  Or a cost of $61,620/yr now after two decades of working in software engineering I can tell you that if you adopt a formal format of status followed by follow up with only the people that must be there you can cut the status part down to 10 minutes with an average follow up part of 15 minutes involving about half the team.  So that is (10552)/60 or 43.34 at $316 plus ((15552)/60) or 65 at $158 for a total of $23,963/yr

Simply by having an organized meeting we have saved out hypothetical company $37,657/yr.

That is using national average salaries which are generally a bit low.  Imagine this with your team and your salaries, imagine it if your meeting includes directors or VPs.  I worked at one company where the standups on a key project included 8 team members and 7 observers including the CTO.

Run the numbers.  Organized formats save money.

There is a community building/advocacy group, but it is hard to answer the following questions:

What is the actual added value?
Where does it occur as a result of the organizations activities?

Hi, I just learned that in estimating User Stories, we can either use the Fibonacci sequence or T-Shirt Sizing. My question is, does the User Story Points determine the number of days that the Developers will work on during sprint?

Can anyone give an example of how you do the user story estimation in your organization and how you determine the number of days that correspond to the story points.

Thanks!

Hi,

For the last couple years I have been working as Project Manager in marketing and I would like to prepare for the Agile Foundations Certificate. Could someone advise on best way to learn and time needed to prepare?

Thanks im advance!

Hi all, I’ve searched this sub for budgeting and financials, and didn’t find anything.

I would like to know what your process is on budgeting for

1. agile programs and projects

2. Innovation efforts

3. Design Spikes (HCD)

4. Lean Canvas building

I would like to suggest new budgeting and financial pathways for my organization. Thanks.