Questions tagged [meetings]
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How to make sprint planning fun
Not only are our sprint planning meetings not fun, they're downright dreadful.
The meetings are tedious, and boring, and take forever (a day, but it feels like a lot longer).
The developers complain about it, and dread upcoming plannings.
Our…
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Does it make sense to standardize including a created date and last updated date field on all DB tables?
My boss is currently attempting to apply some development standards to our team, so we had a meeting yesterday to discuss the standards which was mostly going well until she brought up:
All DB tables will have a CreatedDate and LastUpdatedDate…
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Daily standups- yea or nay?
How valuable (or not) do you think daily stand-up meetings are?
If you're not familiar with it, this refers to a daily meeting that is part of Scrum adherents (and some other agile methodologies). The idea is that you hold a daily meeting,…
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Why and for what reasons developers may not like "daily scrum"?
There are advantages in holding daily scrum, like:
Team get coordinated with each other
Everyone knows what amount of task has been done
Burndown chart gets more and more complete
Task board is updated
It doesn't last that much, 15 minutes won't…
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Dominant team members in a Scrum team
What would you do in a situation where a team member tries to take responsibilities are not initially assigned to him but to the Scrum Master?
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How does the Scrum Master participate in Daily Stand-Ups?
We have a professional Scrum Master consultant [*] who recently joined our project. Unfortunately, we don't know her name (she never introduced herself to us, she just came in one day and said "we are having a daily stand-up"), and she doesn't seem…
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How to run developer team meetings?
Our team of 10 developers meet weekly. The meetings are rather boring and not particularly useful. What format/agenda do you utilize to have good meetings?
We meet weekly in the conference room with pizza provided. The format is we go around the…
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Can daily reports decrease a developer's productivity?
In another question, I asked about why developers might don't like daily scrum. We talked to developers and we decided to not hold daily scrum for a while (to give it a try and customized scrum in our first attempt). This is the output of consulting…
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What is the purpose of the stand-up and its duration in agile methodologies?
I used to work in a waterfall methodology and now I am in a team that is following an agile methodology. It seems they are doing it wrong. For example, we have stand-ups that last 25+ minutes daily, which is really annoying. Additionally, I feel…
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Effective team meetings
I'm a team leader of a team of 8 programmers in a company of about 20 technical people. They're working on a range of projects, these projects also involve people from other teams that are outside of my control. My organisation is not doing proper…
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In a Scrum standup, should the discussion of what was done yesterday be limited to tasks on the board or all work done?
I know that Scrum rules in daily standups say that team should only talk about what they did yesterday, what they're doing today, and anything blocking them. Nothing else. But the problem is, sometimes developers spend their day doing work…
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Handling tough or unexpected technical questions in meetings
Depending on the project I'm working on, I may be required to attend more meetings with both internal stakeholders or technical management in client companies.
During the course of these meetings, there will inevitably be a few questions crop up…
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Is there a relation factor between meeting time and saving development time?
I am working on a project and we have regular (usually weekly), informal meetings, where we discuss the status of the project and the GUI of it.
I'm the only developer there, the other 4-5 people have a non-IT background.
This meeting took much…
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When to have bug triage meetings in SCRUM process?
I was reading an article that explains some solutions to the "unpredictable emergencies" situation during Agile sprints. The article suggests having triage to determine if issues are truly emergencies and if they should be worked on by resources…
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What project meeting structure should a single developer choose?
I am a solo developer working on a decently small project with about 3 other people (non-developers). These other people are involved in the project in non-development ways and one is also my manager. Everyone is pretty open to ad hoc discussions,…
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