How to make the work done by the engineers visible so that they can continuously fill motivated and engaged in team work — Recognition for accomplishment is one of the motivator factors which drives our engagement. It is also the first factor with the lowest score calculated by employee engagement software in my organization after we formed new teams and get up to speed with engineering work. We were done with setting the…

How to make the work done by the engineering teams observable so that they can constantly self-improve — Introduction In the past I wrote an article about “The cost of software development and tips how to reduce it” where I was focusing on cost reduction tips in many aspects. This time, I tried to make the work done by teams of engineers observable, so that they could constantly self-improve…

If you have ever worked in software product development you have probably asked yourself (or been asked by software engineers) the following questions: What is the strategy for the product? What is the link between user stories and the business goal? The tactical view Software development teams usually focus on the tactical view…

How much money is being spend on specific project? How to measure software development efficiency and effectiveness?How utilisation is managed? — A few days ago, I and several other development managers had a very interesting meeting with our guys from Finance. They were trying to understand how much money was being spent on any specific project. They were asking how do we measure development efficiency and effectiveness in terms of time…