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:
- What did I do yesterday
- What am I going to do today
- 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