[HN Gopher] Heuristics to Ensure Your Team is on The Same Page
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       Heuristics to Ensure Your Team is on The Same Page
        
       Author : anacleto
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-10-07 11:58 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | alexfromapex wrote:
       | "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.
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       | 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.
        
       | jms703 wrote:
       | "Use tools that give you the ability to see who's seen or hasn't
       | seen messages."
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       | 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.
        
         | dandigangi wrote:
         | Oof. Agreed. Not a fan of that part.
        
         | oceanghost wrote:
         | I would argue it's impossible at a large organization to be
         | aware of all of what's going on around you.
         | 
         | I can't tell you how many times a manager sidled up to me and
         | said "What do you think about X?" when they had forwarded me a
         | several months long conversation as an e-mail, and expected me
         | to spend hours unraveling it while simultaneously hitting my
         | dev targets.
         | 
         | That is to say, it's super easy for a managers to broadcast
         | information, and super expensive for the team to consume it. It
         | becomes a thing where you can't even tell what information is
         | going to be relevant.
        
       | caminante wrote:
       | Article is underwhelming.
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       | 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._
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       | From experience, this is naive.
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       |  _> 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.
        
         | rednerrus wrote:
         | I try to keep my overall plan in one single page in a Word Doc.
         | We break our epics and stories out in Jira but we have a same
         | page that everyone on my team looks at when it comes to doing
         | our large scale planning. It's great.
        
           | caminante wrote:
           | Yep. Having a 1-pager (and keeping it fresh) adds so much
           | efficiency and focus.
        
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