Comments on: Focussing Your Goals http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/ Tales from the Edge of Technology Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Keith Sterling http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Keith Sterling Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:46:14 +0000 http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/#comment-150 Interesting article, but I'm struggling to see how this aligns with a strong product backlog, and an active customer who is prioritising and ordering the backlog ahead of the next iteration. Teams struggling to plan the next release or iteration point towards a smell of a poor on none engaged customer and poor back log management. Don't get me wrong there is definately a need to brainstorm each iteration, discuss those niggly little problems and tech debt that people think need to be brought up, so I would keep everything in the article but reword/rewrite Brainstorm section and place greater emphasis on getting together with the customer, reviewing the current backlog and agreeing the priority and using this to create a list of what things that need to be accomplished Interesting article, but I’m struggling to see how this aligns with a strong product backlog, and an active customer who is prioritising and ordering the backlog ahead of the next iteration.

Teams struggling to plan the next release or iteration point towards a smell of a poor on none engaged customer and poor back log management.

Don’t get me wrong there is definately a need to brainstorm each iteration, discuss those niggly little problems and tech debt that people think need to be brought up, so I would keep everything in the article but reword/rewrite Brainstorm section and place greater emphasis on getting together with the customer, reviewing the current backlog and agreeing the priority and using this to create a list of what things that need to be accomplished

]]> By: Venu Tadepalli http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Venu Tadepalli Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:39:02 +0000 http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/#comment-149 Excellent points. Any suggested materials on how to converge on goal Excellent points. Any suggested materials on how to converge on goal

]]> By: Chris http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Chris Sat, 25 Oct 2008 03:30:26 +0000 http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/#comment-142 @ Larry: There are several ways this can be done using some of the tools I mentioned in a previous post on Tools for Distributed Teams. Check out the post here: http://edgehopper.com/tools-for-distributed-teams/ . If you still have questions, let me know I can give more suggestions. @Carlos: Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Let me know how it works out for your team. @ Larry: There are several ways this can be done using some of the tools I mentioned in a previous post on Tools for Distributed Teams. Check out the post here: http://edgehopper.com/tools-for-distributed-teams/ . If you still have questions, let me know I can give more suggestions.

@Carlos: Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Let me know how it works out for your team.

]]> By: Larry Freedman http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Larry Freedman Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:28:15 +0000 http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/#comment-139 How would you adjust modify this if your team was distributed geographically and all but a few were not able to see your visual cues? How would you adjust modify this if your team was distributed geographically and all but a few were not able to see your visual cues?

]]> By: Carlos Roldan http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/comment-page-1/#comment-138 Carlos Roldan Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:59:43 +0000 http://edgehopper.com/focussing-your-goals/#comment-138 Great post Chris! I am going to try this with my team and report back. Carlos Great post Chris! I am going to try this with my team and report back.
Carlos

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