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Trust, Commitment and Accountability

That is a good suggestion. Although I clearly state it as a "Death March" in my training sessions, I may not always be able to tell it that way and keep the client/assignment too ;-)

Tagged: Coach, Agile, Accountability, Commitment, Trust

Replied May 3

Trust, Commitment and Accountability

Well, those are the expectations coming from top management. And either they believe the old tactics work for them or they don't accept it did not. In any case I see this as a conflict with Agile imp…

Tagged: Coach, Agile, Accountability, Commitment, Trust

Replied May 3

Trust, Commitment and Accountability

The "business expectations" I'm referring are where top management expects from engineering team to get the product out with a set of features and the date declared at the beginning of release. They…

Tagged: Coach, Agile, Accountability, Commitment, Trust

Replied Apr 29

Trust, Commitment and Accountability

The Scrum Guide states as follows: "If the Team senses that it has overcommitted, it meets with the Product Owner to remove or reduce the scope of Product Backlog selected for the Sprint. If the Tea…

Tagged: Coach, Agile, Accountability, Commitment, Trust

Replied Apr 26

 

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May 12
Ilja Preuß replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
How detailed is the definition of the "set of features" at the beginning of the project?
May 3
Duncan Campbell replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
There are 4 types of death march: suicice, kamikaze, ugly and Mission Impossible, based on chances of success and happiness of the participants. The Mission Impossible category is where you want to be.
May 3
Manish Manekar replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
That is a good suggestion. Although I clearly state it as a "Death March" in my training sessions, I may not always be able to tell it that way and keep the client/assignment too ;-)
May 3
Manish Manekar replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
Well, those are the expectations coming from top management. And either they believe the old tactics work for them or they don't accept it did not. In any case I see this as a conflict with Agile implementation. The options I can think of are: 1. T…
May 3
Duncan Campbell replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
Then I recommed you (and your colleagues) read Ed Yourdon's masterpiece "Death March".
April 30
Ilja Preuß replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
Where do those expectations come from? Did those old tactics ever work?
April 29
Manish Manekar replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
The "business expectations" I'm referring are where top management expects from engineering team to get the product out with a set of features and the date declared at the beginning of release. They care less about the engineering team following Agi…
April 29
Ilja Preuß replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
What are the "business expectations" that you see in conflict with Agile values?
April 29
Manish Manekar replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
The Scrum Guide states as follows: "If the Team senses that it has overcommitted, it meets with the Product Owner to remove or reduce the scope of Product Backlog selected for the Sprint. If the Team senses that it may have extra time, it can work…
April 26
Ilja Preuß replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
Motivation is much less a function of an individual, than of the system they are part of. Letting an employee find a different place that better motivates him might be much more costly than changing his current environment so that it is motivating t…
April 26
Duncan Campbell replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
The solutions to motivated and capable teams also include giving the less motivated and capable members the opportunity to find teams and environments which do suit their levels of motivation and capability.
April 26
Ilja Preuß replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
"It's not easy for every sprint to have a unifying theme." Who did say software development was easy? "The point of the team making the commitment is that they are more motivated to satisfy the commitment - they have a stake, rather than following…
April 26
Duncan Campbell replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
But what is the Sprint Goal? "Complete the next slice of requirements from the top of the product backlog to deliver the highest business value to the customer."? It's not easy for every sprint to have a unifying theme. The other part of commitmen…
April 26
Manish Manekar replied to Thiago Miranda de Oliveira's discussion 'Designers versus Programmers versus Testers'
Thiago, welcome to Agile Community! And your English is just fine, don't you worry :) As I understand, you are in a situation where a typical story has series of dependent tasks; and you want to improve on the idle time waiting on such dependencies.…
April 23
Manish Manekar updated their profile
April 18
Manish Manekar replied to Ali Abd El Latif's discussion 'what's the difference between CMMI and Agile'
As I understand, simply put, Agile is iterative development methodology, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing cross-functional teams. Whereas, CMMI is a process improvement approach that provides orga…
April 13
Manish Manekar replied to Dominic Hurst's discussion 'Velocity Points'
Dominic, I happenes with most, if not all! There are many ways teams handle it and here is my take on such a situation: 1. Every task - planned or not, this way or other - should be accounted for. 2. It obviously adds up to the sprint backlog and…
April 13
Phlip replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
uh, I was reading the http://www.agile-community.com/forum/topics/bdd-tdd-acceptance-testing-and thread and clicked on this one! Sorry! C-:
April 8
Ilja Preuß replied to Manish Manekar's discussion 'Trust, Commitment and Accountability'
I think the Scrum Guide is pretty clear on this: a team commits to a Sprint Goal, which is kinda like a small version of a mission statement, like "allow customers to manage whishlists". The Sprint Backlog is there plan on how to deliver on that com…
April 7

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