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Stop managing the team. No 1-1s. Don't insulate the team from the product owner, let them feel the pain of not delivering. Shorten the sprints down to a week
by ratherbefuddled 6y ago
Stop managing the team. No 1-1s.
Don't insulate the team from the product owner, let them feel the pain of not delivering.
Shorten the sprints down to a week to reduce the feedback loop time.
Stop doing commitment based planning, just work through stories in order and get a feel for your capacity/velocity.
Minimise the work in flight, all work on the same story if you possibly can.
Pair more.
- politician 6y agoDo you work somewhere people put up with this approach? If so, please tell us so that others can avoid this sweatshop.
- ratherbefuddled 6y agoThis is the very opposite of a sweatshop. It's giving a nascent team control over their own success or failure and the quickest possible feedback loop for them to apply their own learnings. If you don't recognise it perhaps you are used to a command and control structure.
- politician 6y agoDoes the development team have ownership over the broad and fine features? If not, I stand by my characterization. When the PO feels the need to micromanage individual developers so that they “feel the pain”, it’s a disfunctional situation.
- ratherbefuddled 6y agoNobody mentioned the PO managing anybody. But of course they own the priorities. The whole point is to stop the original poster trying to micro manage and in doing so preventing the team from self organising. You've completely misunderstood.