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In a team environment, has anyone seen voting 'yes' to an idea as the side effect of the social proof? Let me make this clear. The marketing comes with a requirement. They need a new feature in the application to search the products. In the estimation meeting, the team breaks down the story to few different tasks and one of them is the implementation of search. The senior developer 1 says this needs to be done using algorithm A. Another developer 2 is mentored by developer 1 says that is a good…See More

In the past few weeks I spoke to some software developers who have 8 to 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Here is what I heard from them. Three people told me Agile is all about accountability. According to them the IT industry is polluted by developers who spend much time surfing the net, IMing and doing their extra curricular activities. The IT industry is tired and especially in recession they want to make sure they are getting what they pay to these developers. The agile process…See More

How does the team exist in your organization? In my case, the dev team is 7 member team - horizontal in resource usage though some have more experience in the field. The Project Manager runs the scrum. The Project Manager negotiates with other teams for deliverable. He transfers the stories to the dev team to develop. There is a Sr.Project Manager who act more as a facilitator. There is no BA. There is no Development Manager. The request from the Marketing director flows to the IT director to…See More