{"id":64,"date":"2013-04-01T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T21:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/fire-prevention-and-firefighting\/"},"modified":"2020-11-04T11:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T10:22:26","slug":"fire-prevention-and-firefighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/fire-prevention-and-firefighting\/","title":{"rendered":"fire prevention and firefighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings>  <o:RelyOnVML\/>  <o:AllowPNG\/> <\/o:OfficeDocumentSettings><\/xml><![endif]--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Moving around large Agile projects, I came across a common situation that hinders the team performance. \u00a0Individuals cannot allocate time for improving their work (and avoid future problems) because they are constantly firefighting current issues. <\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN\">It typically happens like this: Someday on the past, the problem has started. Unfortunately, the issue (small at the time) was not clearly identified. It only got enough attention when it was on fire. Therefore the vicious cycle: <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><span lang=\"EN\">Everyone is busy putting out fires -&gt; no time to improve (and avoid future fires) -&gt; more fires<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><span lang=\"EN\"><br \/>\nIt takes discipline! Finding the balance between fire prevention and firefighting is not easy. You still need the fire sirens. But some experienced firefighters should be working proactively instead of reactively. They should be out of the fire department doing preventive work. <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN\">Plan your capacity accordingly. How is your team working currently? Do they have time to avoid fires, in the first place? Make sure to count for preventive as well as reactive work. Make sure to build quality in to avoid future hazards.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moving around large Agile projects, I came across a common situation that hinders the team performance. \u00a0Individuals cannot allocate time for improving their work (and avoid future problems) because they are constantly firefighting current issues. It typically happens like this: Someday on the past, the problem has started. Unfortunately, the issue (small at the time) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1941],"tags":[774,670],"inception_activities":[],"colaboradores":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procuts-management","tag-agile-en","tag-large-team-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"inception_activities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inception_activities?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"colaboradores","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caroli.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/colaboradores?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}