{"id":379972,"date":"2010-03-02T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2185-a-new-way-of-working-a-two-month-recap"},"modified":"2010-03-02T11:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T16:41:00","slug":"a-new-way-of-working-a-two-month-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/379972","title":{"rendered":"A New Way of Working: A Two-Month Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in early January I posted about our new way of working in 2010<\/a>. Instead of working individually in isolation as we had in the past, we’re breaking into small teams of three (two programmers, one designer). We’re keeping the teams intact for two months at a time. During those two months, the teams will work on four separate iterations, two weeks each. The goal is to drastically cut down scope, set short fixed deadlines, and focus on improving our products.<\/p>\n

How’d it go?<\/h2>\n

Now that January and February are behind us, and March is upon us, we can reflect on the first two month term. So how’d it go?<\/p>\n

It went incredibly well. It was the most productive two month period we’ve had in a long time. It wasn’t all perfect, and some adjustments were required, but all in all we definitely feel like we made the right call switching to this new way of working.<\/p>\n

The results<\/h2>\n

Here’s some of what we accomplished:<\/p>\n