Check Out Bob Galen’s Latest Post

Velocity Partners is pleased to offer the community a number of resources regarding Agile/Scrum practices and methodologies including informative blogs by Bob Galen.  For 15 years, Bob’s focus has been leveraging agile methods as the best way to deliver software value. He is an experienced, pragmatic, and passionate agile trainer, coach, and practitioner. 

One recent blog from Bob (posted on our website) deals with the problem of agile team members taking on more than they can handle, and negatively affecting both their productivity and quality of work.  Bob identifies factors that may contribute to the problem including the project leadership setting unrealistic goals in terms of their teams’ capacity.  Overwhelming the teams’ capacity hinders their ability to produce quality work and meet goals.  This may also be a result of management not wanting to disappoint their clients and passing the pressure along to their teams.  Or it may be a result of technical teams succumbing to the pressure and trying to deliver on unmanageable goals. 

  

     Bob points out that more times than not the problem stems from having too many things “in play.”  If this is the case, the solution is to reduce the number of parallel projects and really focus on fewer projects, which should increase quality and productivity.  He reminds us that multi-tasking doesn’t save time but actually negatively impacts productivity when switching from one task to another.

Galen also reminds Agile practitioners “that busyness or sheer effort is not necessarily correlated with results.”  Rather work on small sets of things until you get them done.  Furthermore, to be the most productive, align your work and commitments to a doable capacity.  Please visit to our website to see more of Bob’s blog as well as to learn about our offshore software development company. 

  

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