My experience is similar, but based more on Sprints and more frequent, shorter meetings. We also utilized "Post-It Driven Development", meaning that all our ta

My experience is similar, but based more on Sprints and more frequent, shorter meetings. We also utilized "Post-It Driven Development", meaning that all our tasks were written on post-its, with an estimated time-to-completion (rough, like 2 hours, 8 hours, 2 days, etc.) We would meet for 10 minutes or less each morning, and each person would move their post-its as necessary -- we had 4 columns, not started, started, finished or roadblocked. Each day the post-its got moved over to where they needed to go, and anybody who looked at the board could see exactly who was working on what, how much work was remaining, how much work was completed, and who was or wasn't doing a good job of time estimations. New feature requests would be queued by the product manager until all of the previous sprint's features were implemented (or delayed, or resolved in some other way), and then we'd start over.