Episode #42 – Shared commitments with Howard Sublett




Agile Weekly Podcast show

Summary: Clayton Lengel-Zigich, Derek Neighbors, Chris Coneybeer and Roy van de Water talk to special guest Howard Sublett from Big Visible to talk about shared resources, multitasking and team members having multiple commitments. Treating people as resources can cause long term problems Specialization can discourage team members from taking ownership of a project Team members complaining of too many meetings is a red flag indicating that developer is probably on too many projects Product Owners are not exempt from suffering in capability and quality from working on two many projects Human beings do not context switch as easily as we pretend to be able to