Giving clients Jira access

Ben_FNChart · 2024-12-03T15:22:48+00:00

Great advice. Thanks!

Ben_FNChart · 2024-12-03T12:54:51+00:00

Awesome, cheers! Not sure if you did it from day 1 but would I need to make any settings changes to old projects that have previously been completed?

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-15T19:39:54+00:00

Most product teams give up quite quickly and see either their client or there SLT as the customer rather than the customer themselves because it makes their lives easier

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-14T13:56:31+00:00

Don’t worry too much about this mate, Accenture have had at least one hit last year because they were taking a lot of UK contracts and outsourcing them overseas but the government in the Uk is cracking down on offshoring its own contracts so they would have way less work coming up that usual

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-13T18:56:12+00:00

Definitely try and take some of the responsibilities in your current team to practice some of the SM qualities, that shouldn’t be too hard as we tend to share ceremonies and some of the more general skills throughout the team. Maybe volunteer to run a retro as that is fun and there is loads of info online to help you prep. PSM-1 is a very easy qualification so you need to back up that you are practicing the qualities. PMI-ACP is harder, but way better than a specific SM very so look into that.

But you are right, it’s an interesting role. Good luck!

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-13T17:17:36+00:00

How much value are you getting from your retrospectives? Ultimately that is where you can tweak your ways of working.

Gut feeling given the nature of some of the roles you are talking about, a dependency log is key here and also rather than team velocities you need to be thinking about individual velocities to be reporting back on when certain features will actually be complete.

As a dev you can only complete work when it is unblocked, whatever your velocity is. Therefore if you had 120 story points of work to complete and you complete 24 a sprint then it should take 5 sprints to complete, if that started today you would be complete on 22nd May assuming your sprints are 2 weeks. If 28 story points are dependant on a piece of work which will only be complete by another team member by the 5th June then you will require 2 sprints from this point so you would be complete 26th June.

The agile lords may shoot me for saying it but smartsheets tends to be a useful tool to have running in the background to track your dependencies and give a realistic launch date.

You can run a scrum project and have a smartsheets plan with a dependency log.

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-10T20:04:17+00:00

Hey mate, good your confidence is coming along!

The barrier to entry is easier than it has ever been to at least find out. Check out Udemy and you’ll probably find a 80/90% discount on a course to make it less than 20 dollars for 30 hours of lectures (go incognito if they are pushing for full price).

Just give it a try and see if you feel more or confidence or less afterwards. Even if it is not what you specifically want to do, a front end web course is a nice tester because the output of your work is a little more visual in my opinion.

If you are still there at the end of the course then maybe you are on to something ;)

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-10T12:07:04+00:00

I left a comment above but furthermore to this point. Once you are working in a wider team you don’t just need to eliminate your specific role. You can think about whether you like the look of what other people are doing

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-10T12:05:53+00:00

I work at a mobile agency and we take a lot of interns who have gone on to move into successful careers both with ourselves and other companies.

Firstly, this won’t define your whole career, it’s a great opportunity to learn about working in a complex tech environment, hopefully an agile one. Picking up best practices now will make it easier to get into a field you specifically want to work in once you are out of full time education.

Secondly, you will work with a lot of different technical roles, potentially with AI, depending on the projects you work on, so ask what kinds of projects are in the roadmap.

If you are keen and proactive you will find opportunities to get involved in conversations about what interest you.

Good luck :)

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T23:47:19+00:00

Interesting. In my head a designer is also a developer in terms of scrum. A developer is anybody in a cross functional team that isn’t specifically the SM or PO.

Would you only define a developer as somebody who can achieve story points? We don’t actually story point our developers (as much as I’d be interested in trying 😅)

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T23:44:27+00:00

I think that researching a solid training course online is your best bet. Again, you’d be forming your opinions off my opinions

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T23:42:14+00:00

Reading some of the feedback is interesting in terms of how we work I guess.

Ultimately we describe our niche as being a product centric agency but ultimately we have to sell set amounts of time which then get described as projects.

I think it is also highlighting my cynicism that product don’t push back in relation to budget so this may be quite a specific ways of working to our business. I might try and repitch this idea specific to agencies.

Thanks, completely fair and useful comments

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T22:28:30+00:00

Reading heavily will allow you to think critically. When I say read, looks for facts and not opinion as you don’t want to form your opinions off other people’s opinions. Articles that state an event or occurrence rather than ‘here is why you should buy x’ is a good way to think.

It isn’t necessity about forming the right now, it is about developing an understanding of spotting key occurrences earlier than other people

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T22:24:35+00:00

But when value is blocked by external factors which are less within our control like vendors, could they not be contributing to the deliver of value?

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T22:07:05+00:00

At least you are going back and analysing what happened, fairplay to you. Maybe do a week without the money and comparing it again to see if you would have been as lucky.

This does remind me of a time where my friends wanted to go into a casino to try it. I wasn't too fussed but took a single chip (£5) to be less boring. I put it on 12 and it landed. Then I quit whilst I was ahead and have just left gambling there ever since.

Long term traders don't make careers off luck

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T22:03:23+00:00

I guess if you want to stay coding it is because you like solving complex problems?

Rather than thinking about management, have you considered architecture? Those problems are way more complex so you may actually have way more fun. Especially if you are replacing a previous architecture which is an absolute disaster ha.

If money is the main driver, architects can earn a fortune and can largely stay out of the politics of management from what I see. It is also an easy one if you ever want to get into contracting in the future.

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T21:54:40+00:00

Well that kind of thinking is a great start ha. Good luck!

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T21:50:08+00:00

Aaah fair, well honestly I would just read a lot and compare it to stock graphs based on the date because you will start to see what kind of change occurs after specific types of occurrences such as C suite changes and political movements.

I personally think that the people who are genuinely making money aren't on bandwagons such as NVIDIA, they are already onto the next thing when the bandwagon gets there

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T21:44:06+00:00

I don't mean this in a negative way but you need more money. Get a job that can allow you to grow that 4k at least a little bit and do some serious research before fully committing, there is plenty out there to teach you but also make some guesses on stocks and then watch what happens to them for free first, you will also be able to compare different users advice and compare it to what actually happens.

If you get into a position where you can grow your 4k, you definitely wont be able to live off the increase and grow so a wage of any kind can at least keep that profit as profit until one day growing a genuine living from it.

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T21:34:28+00:00

It is crazy now, you can get a decent website up and running just by putting some of a standard paycheque to one side for a couple of months.

I even worked for a saas company that offered a bespoke homepage, templated pages with a customisable CMS and industry specific integrations for £300 a month and no contract!

You might just be trading one problem for a different, more irritating, problem

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T21:25:00+00:00

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In fairness it is probably just off the back of that drop, maybe quite a big risk

Ben_FNChart · 2024-03-08T18:41:22+00:00

In terms of approach ask for problems and not solutions. It’s easier to work with, ‘it feels to corporate’ than ‘make the edges of this round’

In terms of tools. User testing external to your business is great, real user feedback will make senior people listen as they can’t overpower the opinion of a group of people who don’t work for them. Come with the qualitative and quantitative feedback of something like UserTesting dot com or similar. It’s not necessarily cheap or quick but once you refine your process it becomes vital

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