tcharron

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by tcharron 13y ago
Yeah, these are all common dysfunctions in teams getting started with Agile. You see these a lot in cargo-cult style adoptions. They understand that they need to do these practices, but they don't understand why. The end result is that they
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by tcharron 13y ago
I have seem teams use end of day stand-ups. The problem with those is that they tend to devolve into status updates pretty quickly. Team members report on what they did that day, but seldom think about the things they are going to get done
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by tcharron 13y ago
Since you are a manager, I might suggest that the Agile and Scrum the daily stand-up isn't for you. While I appreciate your need to know what's going on with the team, in Agile and Scrum, the daily stand-up isn't there to provide status to
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by tcharron 13y ago
The daily stand-up as a status meeting is a common anti-pattern and one I often have to coach teams out of. While yes, you may be able to derive status from a daily stand-up meeting, that's not the point. The point is for the team to co-ord
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by tcharron 13y ago
In Scrum that's where the Scrum Master comes in. It's their job to facilitate the meeting to ensure that those conversations are continued after the meeting. A good team will often find ways to achieve these things without requiring the Scr
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Why Yahoo Might Be Right to End Work From Home(planningforfailure.com)
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Lean Startup Machine is Emotionally Challenging(planningforfailure.com)
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by tcharron 14y ago
Are you all working on different projects/features? That's usually a symptom of teams that aren't really teams. They sit together, but work in completely different worlds and do not really need to communicate together. Teams have a shared g
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by tcharron 14y ago
I would suggest in that case, that you have a daily status meeting and not a daily stand-up then. It also sounds like you may not have a team either. A group of people sitting together working on tasks unrelated to each other do not make a
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by tcharron 14y ago
Remember, it's more important to build the right thing than it is to build lots of stuff. It's better to have the daily stand-up, interrupt your productivity a little bit and discover what you're working on shouldn't be worked on at all, th
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by tcharron 14y ago
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by tcharron 14y ago
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by tcharron 14y ago
That would certainly be something to bring up with your team if you do regular retrospectives. The purpose of standing is to keep the meeting short and focused. Can you think of alternative ways that your team can ensure that the meeting is
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by tcharron 14y ago
As I mentioned in another comment, they likely forgot the purpose of the daily stand-up, which is to have everyone be on the same page everyday. If they're doing that without a daily stand-up, then fine, but it's usually quite difficult to
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by tcharron 14y ago
"If it works for them then they're doing "Agile" perfectly." is a very dangerous statement. By that logic than doing anything is doing Agile and we know this is not true. If it were true, you could do waterfall and if that works for you, th
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by tcharron 14y ago
I would have thought it would work out better if you took Friday off. That way you don't have to deal with a stand-up over the telephone. Stand-ups over the phone are often extremely painful and nowhere near as useful.
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Agile Tools Won’t Solve Your Problem Part 2(planningforfailure.com)
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Agile Tools Won’t Solve Your Problem Part 1(planningforfailure.com)
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