Comments on: It’s about doing things just a little better everyday http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2008/12/03/987/ Web development and design with a little VFX thrown in for fun Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:45:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Johnston http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2008/12/03/987/comment-page-1/#comment-31308 Chris Johnston Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:42:21 +0000 http://www.fuzzylizard.com/?p=987#comment-31308 Granted. The particular pain point we were discussing was a comment made by one of the tech leads that he felt like a third leg. He was so busy with meetings and administrative things that he felt like he wasn't doing any tech lead stuff and, in fact, he wasn't even sure what a tech lead should do. This lead, in a very round about way, to a discussion of the role of an iteration manager and whether that would relive some of the pain the tech lead was feeling. So in a round about way, I think we did start with a problem. We never did arrive at any solutions though beyond management saying there was no budget for an IM and that was that. Granted.

The particular pain point we were discussing was a comment made by one of the tech leads that he felt like a third leg. He was so busy with meetings and administrative things that he felt like he wasn’t doing any tech lead stuff and, in fact, he wasn’t even sure what a tech lead should do. This lead, in a very round about way, to a discussion of the role of an iteration manager and whether that would relive some of the pain the tech lead was feeling.

So in a round about way, I think we did start with a problem. We never did arrive at any solutions though beyond management saying there was no budget for an IM and that was that.

]]> By: Jason Yip http://www.fuzzylizard.com/archives/2008/12/03/987/comment-page-1/#comment-31249 Jason Yip Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:48:51 +0000 http://www.fuzzylizard.com/?p=987#comment-31249 True that we should always be looking for continuous improvement but it's possible that discussing why an expected role is missing is starting with a solution instead of starting with a problem. True that we should always be looking for continuous improvement but it’s possible that discussing why an expected role is missing is starting with a solution instead of starting with a problem.

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