Invest Developer Time Strategically

Context

Your team works with agile methodology. This means that the product managers in your team maintain a product vision, formulate high-level business topics and break it down into epics and stories.

The stories are managed in a prioritized backlog and are handed to the developers. Every sprint (2 weeks) the developers grab the top Stories from the backlog and start coding.

This time-and-material way of working is optimal because product managers can quickly re-prioritize while the product vision becomes sharper. However, this process from requirements to code is a one-way street without back-flow information: It is not possible to see where you really invest your precious developer time.

Pains

Your pain is that agile methodology has a critical blind spot. There is no extensive upfront planning nor time tracking → As a result, there is no information into what your precious developer time is really flowing.

You must make sure that developer time is 100% aligned with business criticality. But how can you do your job, if you cannot measure how much time is flowing into which business topic?

Do you have “black hole” topics that are of low business relevance but consume a significant amount of developer time unnoticed?

Gains

Given that developers face obstacles and inefficiencies, you know that it's unfortunately not possible for 100% of developer resources to be dedicated to business value creation.

However, with Seerene you can measure the amount of developer time that is wasted for inefficiencies, e.g., for defect fixing. Using the AI-driven Seerene platform you can then drill-down into root causes to be able to convert the inefficiencies into extra power.