9. Time management

1. Meetings

  • Meetings are costly - $200 per hour per attendee
  • Meetings are necessary
  • Are huge time wasters

Decling

  • No need to attend every meeting you are invited.
  • Person inviting not responsible for your time management
  • Decide based on
  • if it's important

Leaving

  • not unprofessionalto find an appropirate
  • Time to exit

Have an agenda and goal

  • Meeting should have
  • Clear agenda
  • Time for each topic
  • Stated goal
  • before meeting, make sure
  • you know what discussions

Stand-up meetings

Answers the questions:

  1. What did I do yesterday
  2. What am I going to do today
  3. What's on my way

That's all

Iteration planning meetings

  • Select backlog items to be executed next sprint.
  • Rule of thumb
  • Meeting should be max 5% of whole iteration time.

Iteration Retro and demo

  • At the end of discussion
  • What went right and what wrong
  • 20 min retro
  • 25 min Demo

Arguments / disargreements

  • Any argument that cannot be settiled in 5 min
  • Cannot be settled by arguing.
  • If argument is to be settled
  • Each arguers present case in 5 min or less
  • Have team vote

2. Focus - mania