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Effective team meetings
I'm a team leader of a team of 8 programmers in a company of about 20 technical people. They're working on a range of projects, these projects also involve people from other teams that are outside of ...
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In a team practicing Domain Driven Design, should the whole team participate in Stakeholder meetings?
In my experience, a Software Development Team that comprises:
1 Project Manager
1 Tech Lead
1 - 2 Senior Dev
2 - 3 Junior Dev (Fresh grad)
Only the Tech Lead & PM (and/or Senor Dev/s) will ...
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How do I make the most of the chance to meet one on one with a programming guru?
So, I'm not a programmer, though I've been writing code all of my life. As is my habit, I attempt to contact well know experts in almost any domain I find of interest, and interestingly, I get a lot ...
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How can I speed up the process of typing up specification during a meeting with developers? [closed]
I'm studying source code with other developers, and my job is to type up the specifications as the lead programmer describes what each function does. Are there any tips/tricks to doing this faster? a ...
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Handling tough or unexpected technical questions in meetings [closed]
Depending on the project I'm working on, I may be required to attend more meetings with both internal stakeholders or technical management in client companies.
During the course of these meetings, ...
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Not okay to take notes at meetings? [closed]
I started working at a new job, and have made it a point to take notes at every meeting, of 2 to many people. So far it's worked well for me. It helps me organize and refactoring concepts, a useful ...
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Does it make sense to standardize including a created date and last updated date field on all DB tables?
My boss is currently attempting to apply some development standards to our team, so we had a meeting yesterday to discuss the standards which was mostly going well until she brought up:
All DB ...
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Website for Local Programmers User Group
Looking for suggestions/requirements for a website for a local programmer user group, and the resulting feedback of other commenting on answers. Examples of an existing site would be nice, but not ...
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Can daily reports decrease a developer's productivity?
In another question, I asked about why developers might don't like daily scrum. We talked to developers and we decided to not hold daily scrum for a while (to give it a try and customized scrum in our ...
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How do you handle regular latecomers at the stand-up meetings? [closed]
We have our daily stand-up meeting at 8:45 while the workday starts at 8:30.
Even with the 15 minutes slack people keep coming too late, on a regular basis. This results in our meetings being small, ...
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Why and for what reasons developers may not like “daily scrum”?
There are advantages in holding daily scrum, like:
Team get coordinated with each other
Everyone knows what amount of task has been done
Burndown chart gets more and more complete
Task board is ...
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Laptops or Notebooks in a meeting? [closed]
Is taking the laptop to the meeting a good idea?
Of course, the project leader needs to have one -- but the programmers -- especially those who only need to get straight instructions on what to do ...
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How to run developer team meetings?
Our team of 10 developers meet weekly. The meetings are rather boring and not particularly useful. What format/agenda do you utilize to have good meetings?
We meet weekly in the conference room with ...
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How do you ask or get asked to speak at a software conference?
This is in my TODO.txt. How would you go about achieving this goal?
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Dominant team members in a Scrum team
What would you do in a situation where a team member tries to take responsibilities are not initially assigned to him but to the Scrum Master?
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Large Multi-Touch Display Monitor?
I'm sure that most shops use a standard whiteboard or a more fancier "glass-board" to discuss ideas during a meeting. After the meeting, people will usually take photos of the artifacts using a ...
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Topics for development team cross training sessions
Our team of developers are going to start holding monthly meetings for the purposes of cross training and knowledge improvement. We're looking for ideas for topics to discuss. We've already made a ...
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What's the ideal length of the sprint review/retrospective based on the length of the iteration?
I've been in several projects using scrum now.
The length of the sprint review and/or retrospective has varied from client to client, from project to project.
Some of the reviews became too long (2 ...
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Feedback on setting up a “Programmer Dojo” — suggestions?
Looking for a case study, or operational plan for setting up a "programmer/hacker dojo" in the United States. Here's an example of one, hackerdojo.com; it's possible this info is on their site, but I ...
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Best way to manage minutes of meeting
What is the best way of managing minutes of meeting on daily bases ? Do we have to manage the documents in a repository like VSS or it can be maintained in a excel sheet itself.
Kindly share your ...
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How do you find local fellow programmers?
I'm a self-tought programmer living in a small town. Except for the occasional meetups at the other end of the country, I rarely talk face-to-face with other programmers.
I'm well aware of the merits ...
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Requirment Analysis Communication
Someday s ago we was discussing about the current project, and suddenly sir and my senior started talking about the new feature to add in the project , and i become lost :). i was not able to find how ...
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What should we do to make Morning Standup meetting better and effective
Well , Here in my Office, we made it a practice to come before 9 AM (in any condition as decided by Management) and start with a Standup Meeting. Here we start with Discusiing with issues of previous ...
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How to approach people you've found through internet with similar programming interests?
I've recently really dived into Ruby/Rails and I'm falling in love. I have a gut feeling this might be something that could last for a while.
What I've been missing is interaction with people who are ...
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Daily standups- yea or nay? [closed]
How valuable (or not) do you think daily stand-up meetings are?
If you're not familiar with it, this refers to a daily meeting that is part of Scrum adherents (and some other agile methodologies). ...
