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Hello All,We're in rapid change and switching to Agile.  We've been noticing some things with our Agile planning meetings (story review and sprint planning) that I wanted to share in case these things are normal or if you had techniques for getting more involvement and speeding them up.  Any feedback is appreciated.Here's our environment:25 Developers8 QA2 DocumentationAll team members above are organized in vertical teamsDuring planning meetings not all the team members are engaged and feel…See More

In Agile part of being an effective team is blurring the line between titles.  For instance just because you have the title of "Developer" doesn't mean that you can't test.  So does it work the other way as well?  Just because you're a QA Tech doesn't mean you can't code if you have the skills needed.  From what I understand of Agile the team owns their commitment and if there are members on the team that can get the job done it doesn't matter what their title is.  I'd like to hear other…See More

Hello All,We have recently began the transition to Agile and are considering trying a few different techniques.  One of them that I was very interested in was allowing the team to take ownership of a sprint (planning, estimating and executing).  They would do this on an interval of some sort, say 1 out of every 4 sprints.  This would allow the team to take ownership of a small project within that time to do what they want but they would still be responsible for delivering something of value at…See More