Yea. I do Fractional CTO consulting and usually have good results with developers because I focus heavily on removing bottlenecks, unhelpful processes and meetings, etc.
The challenge is always when you run into sacred cows from other levels of management.
- Hard deadlines while acknowledging we don't have enough information to commit to those deadlines
- Story points as a measure of time
- Absolutely overloaded teams being asked to deliver new features without being given time to improve underlying issues in the system...and then having to constantly stop what they are working on to deal with production issues caused by those underlying problems.
It's like clockwork sometimes and the conversations are always hard.
The challenge is always when you run into sacred cows from other levels of management.
- Hard deadlines while acknowledging we don't have enough information to commit to those deadlines
- Story points as a measure of time
- Absolutely overloaded teams being asked to deliver new features without being given time to improve underlying issues in the system...and then having to constantly stop what they are working on to deal with production issues caused by those underlying problems.
It's like clockwork sometimes and the conversations are always hard.