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Thoughtful Team
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| Building with Confidence | |
| - Investment into quality i.e. spending time improving infrastructure, refactoring code, looking for better solutions (CRITICAL) | |
| - Once a week half a day bug hunt with dev team or full-time Automated QA Engineer | |
| - Demanding and giving developers time to do proper testing of their own effort. | |
| - Test-driven development (or BDD) and Continuous Integration | |
| - Code reviews | |
| - Investment into writing library-style code | |
| Running Tight Ship | |
| - Pre-planning meeting where the dev teams play "Planning poker" (CRITICAL) | |
| - Shorter Planning meeting for all dev team members with presence of a product owner to understand priorities | |
| - Daily Standup | |
| - Negotiable Scope and Timelines, but not team's estimates. (CRITICAL) | |
| - Product Owner responsible for researching, analyzing what to build next. Preference for concise, but thorough specs either as user stories/epics. | |
| Treasuring the Team | |
| - Quarterly and Yearly Reviews with improvement plans | |
| - 3 conversations with new hires: 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months | |
| - 2-3 conversations with troubled employees: 2 week intervals |
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Excellent and concise summary of the ideal team & workflow. The half day bug hunt is a great idea I would even suggest making it a high priority event that the entire team can participate in.
A+