So you know at all times what everyone in your team does? Do you chat constantly with everyone on your team? Nobody just hunkers down and does stuff for a few d

So you know at all times what everyone in your team does? Do you chat constantly with everyone on your team? Nobody just hunkers down and does stuff for a few days? It's these cases where the standard checkup time (daily standup) comes in handy. It's not for "the middle management", it's for the team to know how everyone is progressing. -- How do you manage releases with Kanban? Do you have a release train and release whatever happens to be complete at the time it leaves the stateion or something else? -- So Developers take the time to arrange a meeting with the customer, talk with them about their problem, write down the features etc? And this is fine, but spending a Monday morning every two weeks planning a sprint is anathema? Nobody in the team is an introvert who considers root canal without anaesthesia more enticing than spending a full day talking with non-technical customers about project requirements? -- You clearly have the cojones and corporate political power to tell business types and middle managers to fuck off. Many MANY other developers do not, if they tell the sales lead to fuck off with his "urgent" requests mid sprint, they'll be looking for a new job the next morning.