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Providing enough time and infrastructure for people to discuss and resolve items ..




This seems like a very odd item to write a software post about. However, this is based on a lot of experience that I have seen over the years, and also discussed with many other people (those that have seen problems where there was not enough infrastructure, and other cases where there was enough of [...]



Employee improvement – Focus on the 3-4 important stuff rather than be all over the place




Focusing on improving the performance of your employees is a big contributor for improving the overall performance of the team. When you have a large team (or when you have a small team), you will get people with varying levels of productivity and with their own personal traits. There will be people who will be [...]



Meetings – how to optimize the number of attendees in a meeting for middle management




In the organization that I work in, there is a culture of having meetings on the drop of a hat for discussion of issues. This is normally justified for the following reasons: – Meetings avoid long winded email discussions where the point made by a person could be misconstrued or not understood properly. – Meetings [...]



Problem in Scrum: Looking at technical debt, which will cause more problems as you move ahead ..




What is technical debt ? Well, I will not try and give a definition for technical debt. Instead, consider that you have 2 approaches to build some great new features. You can do something in a quick way without trying to build a great design, or you can build it the proper way through the [...]