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Getting team members to attend user feedback sessions, usability being very important (Part 1)..




In the previous post (Needing user feedback?), I was talking about a case where there needs to be a balance between having user sessions to get feedback about new proposed plans, vs. the case whereby a lot of new stuff is such that users may not have thought of and where getting feedback may not [...]



Do Scrum of Scrums meetings add value to the project – Part 2




In the previous post (Scrum of Scrums), we started discussing about what the Scrum of Scrums meeting is all about. In today’s post, we shall discuss more about the Scrum of Scrums meeting. This is a meeting that is typically not meant to be a kind of mega-status meeting, being meant to be a technical [...]



Do Scrum of Scrums meetings add value to the project – Part 1




One of the most confusing meetings for new entrants to Scrum is the Scrum of Scrums meeting. For a lot of people, there is no clear understanding about why this meeting is held, who are the participants, frequency, agenda, etc. I have been through a couple of trainings and those did not really cover the [...]



Not pushing the team too hard – a fine balance that can be easy to miss – Part 5 ..




In this series of posts (previous post about compensation disparities), I have been talking about the problems that caused our team, which had improved its productivity levels to become one of the most productive teams, to start raising objections to being pushed for the work that they were doing. So far, during the analysis that [...]