Software Engineering Problems

Symptoms

• You have a key person dependency and struggle to find time to generate documentation.
• Your onboarding process needs improvement and you struggle to find engineers free to support new staff.
• You have poor communication within the team
• You have poor code quality and high number of bugs against new work
• your cycle time is high (the time it takes from starting work to it being finished and released to Production)
• Lack of ownership or a sense of buy-in lacking within the group
• Lots of work in progress and constant context switching from your team.
• Problems seem to grow in size and teams struggle to know where to start.
• Work grinds to a halt when someone in the team is absent
• Associate or mid-level staff struggle to progress and grow into Senior.

Medicine

• Group programming
• Test-driven development
• One piece flow