Comments on: What do you want next? http://www.agileforall.com/2008/08/22/what-do-you-want-next/ Agile For All Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:11:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bob Hartman http://www.agileforall.com/2008/08/22/what-do-you-want-next/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Bob Hartman Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:59:23 +0000 http://www.agileforall.com/blog/?p=26#comment-3 Frank, as you know from our conversations, I believe most teams do not do sufficient demos or retrospectives. One thing I've been teaching recently is that people that created the software should not look at the demo, but look at the people watching the demo. If you don't invite the right people it is hard to do that! The advantage of course is you get to see their non-verbal reactions to what they are seeing. 85% of our communication is non-verbal, but we can't use that if we aren't watching for it! - Bob - Frank, as you know from our conversations, I believe most teams do not do sufficient demos or retrospectives. One thing I’ve been teaching recently is that people that created the software should not look at the demo, but look at the people watching the demo. If you don’t invite the right people it is hard to do that! The advantage of course is you get to see their non-verbal reactions to what they are seeing. 85% of our communication is non-verbal, but we can’t use that if we aren’t watching for it!

- Bob -

]]> By: Frank Vega http://www.agileforall.com/2008/08/22/what-do-you-want-next/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Frank Vega Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:25:58 +0000 http://www.agileforall.com/blog/?p=26#comment-2 Bob, Your blog made me reflect on our recent iteration demo (I call them reveals myself) and I came up with these thoughts: 1) Do we really have the right people (the "real" users of our software) attending our demos so that we are getting quality feedback early? 2) Do we take time, possibly after the demo, to "dig" deeper (apply 5 whys) to the feedback we recieve? 3) Is a "15-20" minute slot of time to review the visible features/stories(those that have a GUI aspect) completed in the iteration sufficient? Maybe just ideas for future blogs at this time but I'd be interested in hearing more for sure. Thanks, Frank Bob,

Your blog made me reflect on our recent iteration demo (I call them reveals myself) and I came up with these thoughts:

1) Do we really have the right people (the “real” users of our software) attending our demos so that we are getting quality feedback early?

2) Do we take time, possibly after the demo, to “dig” deeper (apply 5 whys) to the feedback we recieve?

3) Is a “15-20″ minute slot of time to review the visible features/stories(those that have a GUI aspect) completed in the iteration sufficient?

Maybe just ideas for future blogs at this time but I’d be interested in hearing more for sure.

Thanks,
Frank

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