The thing is that following situation is really common:
Company has an average team, maybe even bit worse + 1 good person. The managers are not that great either. Everything is average.
The team has been doing something, nobody really knows what, nobody really knows at what pace. Nobody knows what they should be doing.
Occasionally the company releases something which sells a bit and customers give some feedback. Mostly not that great.
When you tech them a bit of Scrum, help them get builds every night and help managers to try out the product once in a while (remeber, not all software is a website, some are airport weather observation systems). And help the company to get some of their customers to try out the software once in a while even though it is not "ready".
Suddenly the results of the team is visible to interest groups and interest groups needs are visible to developers, managers can get some idea of the velocity and everybody can have a better idea where we are, where we should go and when we might get there. Then iterate and improve.
What we have done here is that we improved the quality of the company with really little cost with our existing talent pool.
Company has an average team, maybe even bit worse + 1 good person. The managers are not that great either. Everything is average.
The team has been doing something, nobody really knows what, nobody really knows at what pace. Nobody knows what they should be doing.
Occasionally the company releases something which sells a bit and customers give some feedback. Mostly not that great.
When you tech them a bit of Scrum, help them get builds every night and help managers to try out the product once in a while (remeber, not all software is a website, some are airport weather observation systems). And help the company to get some of their customers to try out the software once in a while even though it is not "ready".
Suddenly the results of the team is visible to interest groups and interest groups needs are visible to developers, managers can get some idea of the velocity and everybody can have a better idea where we are, where we should go and when we might get there. Then iterate and improve.
What we have done here is that we improved the quality of the company with really little cost with our existing talent pool.
Yes, this is really common.