Chapter 23. Changes to the Team
When the team changes, how does that affect your planning?
Coming
Give new team members an iteration or two to get acclimated. They can
Pair with more experienced folks
Read code and test cases
Talk to customers
During this orientation, we haven't found the need to predict a reduction in the team's velocity. Time spent answering newbie questions is made up for in the new perspective they bring to old problems.
Yesterday's Weather will tell you when to increase your estimates based on the presence of new people. A project of Kent's added two new people to a team of eight and had a disastrous iteration, mostly because of deferred refactorings that caught up with them. The team declared that the "Lost Iteration" and planned ...
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