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why_not_just_track_hours_like_we_traditionally_do [2016/10/17 15:31] – [Why Not Just Track Hours Like We Traditionally Do?] hpsamioswhy_not_just_track_hours_like_we_traditionally_do [2016/10/17 15:34] – [Why Not Just Track Hours Like We Traditionally Do?] hpsamios
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   * To me easier approach for cost is to determine burdened rate of team and use sum of completed versus sum of total for each epic to come up with a cost each team who has worked an epic. After all, we really only care about commitment and completion.   * To me easier approach for cost is to determine burdened rate of team and use sum of completed versus sum of total for each epic to come up with a cost each team who has worked an epic. After all, we really only care about commitment and completion.
  
-But my biggest issue is the impact of putting this type of system in place from a cultural perspective. People say to me “you know, when we first started Scrum it was great because we could focus on getting the work done. Now we have slowly reintroduced all the bureaucracy we used to have back into the system so our ability to work has decreased.” My view is that this is a natural tendency of organizations – to introduce more and more cruft rather than trying to keep things simple. I think we need to be very careful about putting systems and bureaucracy in place.+But my biggest issue is the impact of putting this type of system in place from a cultural perspective. People say to me “you know, when we first started agile / Scrum it was great because we could focus on getting the work done. Now we have slowly reintroduced all the bureaucracy we used to have back into the system so our ability to work has decreased.” My view is that this is a natural tendency of organizations – to introduce more and more [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruft|cruft]] rather than trying to keep things simple. I think we need to be very careful about putting systems and bureaucracy in place.
  
 Worse than this, time recording takes people out of the mode of producing value and, in the worst cases, forces people to focus on creative ways to make time reports look real (or more accurately, good). It is sometimes too easy to focus on the question of how much something costs to produce, when the question we really should be driving is "how do we increase the production of value?" Worse than this, time recording takes people out of the mode of producing value and, in the worst cases, forces people to focus on creative ways to make time reports look real (or more accurately, good). It is sometimes too easy to focus on the question of how much something costs to produce, when the question we really should be driving is "how do we increase the production of value?"
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