Operational processes and techniques of technical development
What should your platform technical team’s day-to-day activities look like? How do you manage your platform development team or teams? What should your team be watching for in their operational day-to-day and what should they be considering when they are doing development? In this section, we will go over a list of techniques for you and your team to keep in mind.
Teams should manage the accuracy of their estimations and the consistency of their throughput
Platform development teams in operations can become exceptionally accurate at being consistent with their estimates of effort and their actual throughput if the team puts their mind to doing so. This can apply to both teams attempting more waterfall approaches and agile approaches.
All that is required to estimate and determine a team’s throughput is to have the team establish a unit for estimating average team effort (this could be story points...