tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13831777.post6943406583203435048..comments2009-06-07T10:28:52.061-04:00Damon Poolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561311551267979837damon@accurev.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13831777.post-49578241402171858312009-06-07T10:28:52.061-04:002009-06-07T10:28:52.061-04:00Raquel,<br /><br />The good news is that Agile has surfaced problems (though perhaps you knew about them anyway?) The bad news is that Agile is not a silver bullet. It can surface problems like these or make them more apparent, but it can&#39;t solve them.<br /><br />Let&#39;s say you weren&#39;t doing Agile development and you had somebody on the team that only wanted to do the &quot;good stuff&quot; or was uncommunicative about what they are working on. What would you do? I think the typical answers are:<br /><br />a) gentle persuasion<br />b) peer pressure<br />c) involve HR<br />d) put up with the situation because the person is too valuable to lose and hasn&#39;t responded to feedback<br />e) remove the person from the team (or further)<br /><br />Agile doesn&#39;t really add another option here, it just reminds you daily that you have the problem and it is up to you to pick from the options above.Damon Poolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16561311551267979837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13831777.post-63691247780112483392009-06-02T05:21:16.928-04:002009-06-02T05:21:16.928-04:00On your penultimate paragraph you refer that maybe if the person isn't doing it's tasks it's because he is lacking job satisfaction or motivation. In a development team there are always tasks that are more desired and tasks that aren't. Some people just want to do the "attractive" tasks and then leave the boring ones to their colleagues. And even with daily stand ups they're able to skip the effective communication of what they are doing. How to deal with this?!Raquelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08986428250933055242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13831777.post-46572492597720252702008-07-11T23:59:00.000-04:002008-07-11T23:59:00.000-04:00I think "stand up" meetings are definitely better at promoting communication than the traditional 3 hours weekly meetings. In the traditional meeting the people who work the least talk the most while busy programmers think about the time they lose. Real communication doesn't happen in meetings but in the 1 to 1 discussions that follow after the meeting. And stand-up meetings are good at setting these up.<BR/>I would ad only one more guideline to your list:<BR/>The person asking the 3 questions and leading the meeting should not be a manager since such a practice doesn't promote honest answers due to the pressure involved.<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>DanielDaniel Pietraruhttp://www.littletutorials.comnoreply@blogger.com