After reading posts on mailing groups, I have realized that face-to-face meetings are essential for communication. Meaning is harder to discern in text. Writing text is difficult. At this very moment, while writing this blog, I wonder if I am using the correct grammar and vocabulary. Do the words truly convey my thoughts? Who is [...]
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We have all been there. Sat through a long, directionless meeting. Periodicially staring at the watch to see how much longer the meeting will take. I have learned a few tricks that prevent unproductive meetings: Agenda Meeting Goals Timebox I send an agenda of issues and questions to all meeting participants the day prior to [...]
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My team learned that regularly scheduled meetings with the Product Owner are essential for the Scrum team to clarify and refine requirements. Product owners like everyone else are extremely busy. In the past, we tried to schedule meetings with the Product Owner on an ad hoc basis. The Product Owner needed to adjust his schedule [...]
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It is too difficult to estimate effort in terms of time, so Scrum teams should focus on the following: Source Stability Complexity The source is important because it determines the clarity of the feature request. If the feature will meet a business need of a particular stakeholder, the stakeholder has analyzed and thought about what [...]
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