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	<title>Comments on: Why empowered teams work</title>
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	<description>Thoughts on better ways to develop high quality software by Manuel Küblböck. Agile and Lean methodologies, XP practices and other software development goodness.</description>
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		<title>By: Antigua</title>
		<link>http://qualityswdev.com/2009/10/25/why-empowered-teams-work/#comment-339</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Antigua]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m glad that I&#039;ve found your qualityswdev.com site. I&#039;m so delighted by your way of thinking and writing. Have you thought about writing a book?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad that I&#8217;ve found your qualityswdev.com site. I&#8217;m so delighted by your way of thinking and writing. Have you thought about writing a book?</p>
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		<title>By: Are Project Managers not needed with Scrum? &#171; what we think</title>
		<link>http://qualityswdev.com/2009/10/25/why-empowered-teams-work/#comment-19</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Are Project Managers not needed with Scrum? &#171; what we think]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] have to tell the team members what to do from start to completion of the development effort. Empowered (Scrum) teams will handle this just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: Manuel Küblböck</title>
		<link>http://qualityswdev.com/2009/10/25/why-empowered-teams-work/#comment-7</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Manuel Küblböck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think your idea of a task is different from mine, so let me give you my definition: A task is a small (&lt;= 3 developer days) chunk of work and is part of a user story (&lt;= 30 developer days).

These small tasks can be finished by one developer. There is usually no need for handovers or reassigning. User stories in turn need to fit within one sprint (&lt;= 4 weeks). When they are done, there should be no reason why you need to come back to it trying to figure out who did what. This, of course, assumes you have a Defintion of Done and a test suite that make sure tasks are really done.

Scrum is not an excuse to not document any issues you came across during development. It is a common misconception that Scrum teams don&#039;t document what they are doing. The idea is to get rid of all the handover (sign-off) documents and the ones that no-one ever reads. That doesn&#039;t mean the team can&#039;t produce any documentation. I personally prefer keeping things in a project wiki. It&#039;s easy to access and share.

Status report. In my opinion that is one of the big advantages of a visual task board consisting of the user stories and tasks for the current sprint plus a burndown chart Have a look at this www.crisp.se/henrik.kniberg/ScrumAndXpFromTheTrenches.pdf. It&#039;s pretty much exactly the task board we use. By having the board an the wall where the team sits the status report for the current sprint is right in front of them (and everyone else who walks around the office). No need to open a tool and run report. It&#039;s right there. All the time. You may call it a continuous status report. Again, this assumes co-location of the team. For a status of the current release we just use a burndown chart of the sprints within the release created with Excell. I understand that many companies will need a more sophisticated way of doing this. Or at least they think they do.

I am always open for a bit of a discussion. So don&#039;t feel bad about it. If everyone just nods there is no discussion and no improvement. Looking forward to your response.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think your idea of a task is different from mine, so let me give you my definition: A task is a small (&lt;= 3 developer days) chunk of work and is part of a user story (&lt;= 30 developer days).</p>
<p>These small tasks can be finished by one developer. There is usually no need for handovers or reassigning. User stories in turn need to fit within one sprint (&lt;= 4 weeks). When they are done, there should be no reason why you need to come back to it trying to figure out who did what. This, of course, assumes you have a Defintion of Done and a test suite that make sure tasks are really done.</p>
<p>Scrum is not an excuse to not document any issues you came across during development. It is a common misconception that Scrum teams don&#039;t document what they are doing. The idea is to get rid of all the handover (sign-off) documents and the ones that no-one ever reads. That doesn&#039;t mean the team can&#039;t produce any documentation. I personally prefer keeping things in a project wiki. It&#039;s easy to access and share.</p>
<p>Status report. In my opinion that is one of the big advantages of a visual task board consisting of the user stories and tasks for the current sprint plus a burndown chart Have a look at this <a href="http://www.crisp.se/henrik.kniberg/ScrumAndXpFromTheTrenches.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.crisp.se/henrik.kniberg/ScrumAndXpFromTheTrenches.pdf</a>. It&#039;s pretty much exactly the task board we use. By having the board an the wall where the team sits the status report for the current sprint is right in front of them (and everyone else who walks around the office). No need to open a tool and run report. It&#039;s right there. All the time. You may call it a continuous status report. Again, this assumes co-location of the team. For a status of the current release we just use a burndown chart of the sprints within the release created with Excell. I understand that many companies will need a more sophisticated way of doing this. Or at least they think they do.</p>
<p>I am always open for a bit of a discussion. So don&#039;t feel bad about it. If everyone just nods there is no discussion and no improvement. Looking forward to your response.</p>
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		<title>By: Jochen</title>
		<link>http://qualityswdev.com/2009/10/25/why-empowered-teams-work/#comment-6</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jochen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking that a task which is in a task-management-tool can be assigned to several people over a period of time. Every person who works on that task writes hopefully a comment about what he has done and which problems he has discovered. That might be helpfull at the end when something isn&#039;t working right.
OK, when I think deeply about it, it might be that you don&#039;t find out what went wrong, but only who made something wrong.
Another thing which I find helpfull with task management is, that you can give a status report quickly by looking into your tool. I imagine that with scrum projects the status of the project is only in the mind of the team members.
Hey, but I don&#039;t want badtalk scrum. I just want to have a healthy controversial discussion.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was thinking that a task which is in a task-management-tool can be assigned to several people over a period of time. Every person who works on that task writes hopefully a comment about what he has done and which problems he has discovered. That might be helpfull at the end when something isn&#8217;t working right.<br />
OK, when I think deeply about it, it might be that you don&#8217;t find out what went wrong, but only who made something wrong.<br />
Another thing which I find helpfull with task management is, that you can give a status report quickly by looking into your tool. I imagine that with scrum projects the status of the project is only in the mind of the team members.<br />
Hey, but I don&#8217;t want badtalk scrum. I just want to have a healthy controversial discussion.</p>
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		<title>By: Manuel Küblböck</title>
		<link>http://qualityswdev.com/2009/10/25/why-empowered-teams-work/#comment-4</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Manuel Küblböck]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree. Co-location is essential. It certainly gets much harder otherwise. There are tools out there trying to make it work, but nothing can replace face to face conversations in front of a big visual board. Can you give me an example of when documentation ever helped you to find out what went wrong? I just can&#039;t think of any situation.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree. Co-location is essential. It certainly gets much harder otherwise. There are tools out there trying to make it work, but nothing can replace face to face conversations in front of a big visual board. Can you give me an example of when documentation ever helped you to find out what went wrong? I just can&#8217;t think of any situation.</p>
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		<title>By: Jochen</title>
		<link>http://qualityswdev.com/2009/10/25/why-empowered-teams-work/#comment-3</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jochen]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the good comprehension. Sounds good to me. The outcome might be better than having bad management. As far as I see, it can only work when all  team members are at the same location and see each other on a regular basis. Otherwise a detailed task-management is necessary. Another disadvantage which I see is, that in the case when something goes wrong, scrum projects are probably less documented and it is hard to find out where the problem came from.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the good comprehension. Sounds good to me. The outcome might be better than having bad management. As far as I see, it can only work when all  team members are at the same location and see each other on a regular basis. Otherwise a detailed task-management is necessary. Another disadvantage which I see is, that in the case when something goes wrong, scrum projects are probably less documented and it is hard to find out where the problem came from.</p>
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