Are you assuming that both teams have the same Director-level or VP-level leader? There are dramatic differences in staff behavior depending on project-planning rigor required by people at those managerial levels.
I came here to say this and then saw it in the last sentence. We cannot improve the work if there's a big gap between work as imagined and work as done.
"don't trust anyone's estimate of where they spend their time unless you make it safe for them to tell you where they've spent their time."
Thanks for this. Great visual representation of that particular reality. Interesting that you refrained from any particular subjective take on causal loops even though you are clearly suggesting a form of systems thinking (e.g two projects, more debt, less focus, more solo-work, more switching, more estimates, more status reporting, more frustration, more rework etc). You don’t go there. That’s what I really take from this. You merely suggest that it could be a manager‘s longtime support that helps making a gradual shift. Like it!
Ditto others ref last sentence 👍
what were the mechanics for gathering this data accurately?
Are you assuming that both teams have the same Director-level or VP-level leader? There are dramatic differences in staff behavior depending on project-planning rigor required by people at those managerial levels.
I came here to say this and then saw it in the last sentence. We cannot improve the work if there's a big gap between work as imagined and work as done.
"don't trust anyone's estimate of where they spend their time unless you make it safe for them to tell you where they've spent their time."
Thanks for this. Great visual representation of that particular reality. Interesting that you refrained from any particular subjective take on causal loops even though you are clearly suggesting a form of systems thinking (e.g two projects, more debt, less focus, more solo-work, more switching, more estimates, more status reporting, more frustration, more rework etc). You don’t go there. That’s what I really take from this. You merely suggest that it could be a manager‘s longtime support that helps making a gradual shift. Like it!