Re: [teampractices] Grooming: ongoing and asynchronous

2015-06-17 Thread Dan Garry
On 17 June 2015 at 15:52, Kevin Smith wrote: > Thanks Dan! Can you say more? > > In that case, you had a product backlog project that spanned multiple > sub-teams, and had a column for each. Are you saying that the tech leads > would pull items from "To Triage" into their column, and also move it

Re: [teampractices] Grooming: ongoing and asynchronous

2015-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
Thanks Dan! Can you say more? In that case, you had a product backlog project that spanned multiple sub-teams, and had a column for each. Are you saying that the tech leads would pull items from "To Triage" into their column, and also move items up and down within their own sub-team column? Did t

Re: [teampractices] Grooming: ongoing and asynchronous

2015-06-17 Thread Dan Garry
While I was on the Mobile Apps Team, the tech leads of each respective team had a fair bit of delegated authority to do bug triage themselves and make product decisions about small-scale things without involving me. I had the right as product owner to overrule them, but this happened so rarely that

[teampractices] Grooming: ongoing and asynchronous

2015-06-17 Thread Kevin Smith
In a recent discussion[1], Quim said: "Meetings support Grooming, not the other way around. Grooming is an ongoing, asynchronous, remote-friendly activity open to everybody's input. Meetings are synchronous and, in practice, leaning towards restrictiveness and co-location (the problem of distance

Re: [teampractices] MVP or MMP?

2015-06-17 Thread David Strine
These scales are used when UX, art style and usability are major focuses. These are qualitative goals. You're right, projects are never done. These targets help teams set qualitative goals and quality bars. I can't relay the specific implementations from other companies and I left out one key idea