ref: "There was a particular manager who wanted to understand each individual team member's contribution in terms of story points.
OK, so we're gonna measure everyone's story points, am I going to cull the weakest people in the team and so there's a chap (I don't know if any of you guys have come across him, his name's Tim McKinnon, phenomenal developer and wonderful wonderful coach and all-around lovely human being) so he's in the team and he's coaching in his team and his velocity was zero.
Tim's velocity, Tim's personal velocity was zero points and so the project manager said, it's obvious isn't it, that's the person we cull and I said no, no, no, no you don't get to do that.
The reason Tim's velocity is zero is, Tim never signs up for stories because Tim knows he is much more effective pairing with everybody in the team. He is the minister without portfolio within that team.
So what he does, he accelerates the whole team, he is that 10x developer by not committing anything himself. He enables the whole team to go fast.
I said, if you take that guy out of the team everyone on the team will slow down. You will cripple that team."
ref: "There was a particular manager who wanted to understand each individual team member's contribution in terms of story points.
OK, so we're gonna measure everyone's story points, am I going to cull the weakest people in the team and so there's a chap (I don't know if any of you guys have come across him, his name's Tim McKinnon, phenomenal developer and wonderful wonderful coach and all-around lovely human being) so he's in the team and he's coaching in his team and his velocity was zero.
Tim's velocity, Tim's personal velocity was zero points and so the project manager said, it's obvious isn't it, that's the person we cull and I said no, no, no, no you don't get to do that.
The reason Tim's velocity is zero is, Tim never signs up for stories because Tim knows he is much more effective pairing with everybody in the team. He is the minister without portfolio within that team.
So what he does, he accelerates the whole team, he is that 10x developer by not committing anything himself. He enables the whole team to go fast.
I said, if you take that guy out of the team everyone on the team will slow down. You will cripple that team."
Luv it! As I said, it's always individually! You can never generalise ...