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Heuristics to Ensure Your Team is on The Same Page

by anacleto on 10/7/21, 11:58 AM with 8 comments

• by jms703 on 10/8/21, 5:58 PM

  "Use tools that give you the ability to see who’s seen or hasn’t seen messages."

  This makes me cringe a bit. People are tired of getting tracked. I'd much rather be asked in a survey if I was reading your newsletters and what I thought of them.

• by caminante on 10/8/21, 6:04 PM

  Article is underwhelming.

  I think of "on the same page" as everyone has clarity on the important parts of a plan.

  > Whoever sets the meeting controls the agenda, but it's whoever takes the meeting notes who controls the outcome.

  From experience, this is naive.

  > Seamlessly, if you want to prevent people from having divergent perspectives on things, you should provide the same amount of data to everyone.

  You don't get there by over-sharing and under-sharing. It's inefficient.

• by alexfromapex on 10/8/21, 4:05 PM

  "Write things down" is probably the most important, in a world where people think Agile means no documentation. Our team has lots of conversations during grooming and never writes the notes down that we talk about which is very frustrating because it's so easy and has a huge effect on the outcome.

  One that I'd add is invite everyone to the same meetings or put them on the same e-mails, don't have one-off meetings and conversations with certain people because it leads to half the team being in the dark.

• by Ducki on 10/9/21, 1:52 PM

  That’s Crazy