Comments on: Signal to Noise Ratio of Delays http://www.elilopian.com/2009/04/02/signal-to-noise-ratio-of-delays/ Creating better software Mon, 02 Jan 2012 09:09:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eli Lopian http://www.elilopian.com/2009/04/02/signal-to-noise-ratio-of-delays/comment-page-1/#comment-34098 Eli Lopian Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:00:32 +0000 http://www.elilopian.com/2009/04/02/signal-to-noise-ratio-of-delays/#comment-34098 Great, Do your managers also get the 'delay events' - on time? That is not at the end of the iteration, but at a point that they can help. Do they have to be in the stand-ups to get that information? Great,
Do your managers also get the ‘delay events’ – on time? That is not at the end of the iteration, but at a point that they can help. Do they have to be in the stand-ups to get that information?

]]> By: Travis Illig http://www.elilopian.com/2009/04/02/signal-to-noise-ratio-of-delays/comment-page-1/#comment-34090 Travis Illig Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:34:28 +0000 http://www.elilopian.com/2009/04/02/signal-to-noise-ratio-of-delays/#comment-34090 This is exactly how it works for us, with the event bubbling. We, too, face the issue where some folks like to report on every tiny granular task. Every month or so we have to give folks a "friendly reminder" that we don't all need to know every tiny detail, just tell us the net of the tasks. Some folks don't get it and very quickly return to reporting granular lists of tasks - not "I fixed this bug yesterday" but "I went and talked to this person, who then pointed me in this direction, and then I set up this test to replicate the issue, and then..." That sort of report is even noise to the rest of the team. This is exactly how it works for us, with the event bubbling.

We, too, face the issue where some folks like to report on every tiny granular task. Every month or so we have to give folks a “friendly reminder” that we don’t all need to know every tiny detail, just tell us the net of the tasks.

Some folks don’t get it and very quickly return to reporting granular lists of tasks – not “I fixed this bug yesterday” but “I went and talked to this person, who then pointed me in this direction, and then I set up this test to replicate the issue, and then…” That sort of report is even noise to the rest of the team.

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