bryanmillstein

Doing more frequent retrospectives where you reflect on what hasn't been going well can help. A big challenge with that is creating an environment where people feel comfortable opening up and sharing their concerns.

Does your team do retrospectives? How do you create a space where people feel comfortable sharing?

Do you have other ways of solving communication problems?

Psychological safety:

"The belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes, and that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking"

- Amy Edmondson

The biggest difference between high performing and average teams is the amount of introspection they do as a group.

If your team isn't doing this or isn't getting value from it, I want to help. This is my passion and expertise.

Some teams do retrospectives to reflect on ways to improve. Some teams do 360 feedback. Other teams wait for problems and handle them in the moment.

What does your team do? What do you wish they did differently?

I'm working on a new project to try to help development teams work better together. I'm particularly interested in improving interactions between developers and PMs. I've been both a developer and PM. I think there's a lot of opportunity to improve this dynamic.

Let me know if you want to talk about this and hear about what I'm building.

I'm working on a new project to try to help development teams work better together. I'm particularly interested in improving interactions between developers and PMs. I've been both a developer and PM. I think there's a lot of opportunity to improve this dynamic.

Let me know if you anyone wants to talk about this and hear about what I'm building.

In my experience it usually goes something like this:

1. Product manager creates user story.

2. PM meets with engineers to discuss the story and answer questions.

3. Engineers meet to break down the story into engineering tasks. This usually happens in a live meeting where someone is taking notes in a google doc and then someone adds all the tasks to Jira.

How do other people do it? What works well for you? What are the problems you have with this overall process?

I'm curious to see if any company would want someone from outside their team to help run scrum ceremonies.

I'm a PM and developer but the best part of my job is running scrum meetings, especially the retrospective. I think I could add a ton of value to any team trying to do agile development just by running a couple of meetings for you each week.

Who wants to try this? I would do it for free the first few times.