Timeline for Best way to get programmers to ask for help when they get stuck
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| Jan 6, 2012 at 0:04 | comment | added | S.Lott | "when you have someone who doesn't bring up problems"? On a daily basis the lack of progress becomes quite obvious. They can be almost non-verbal in a daily scrum and you will still directly perceive the lack of progress. I suppose, however, it might be possible to conceal non-progress from the team for more than a day or two, so it may be possible for this not to work. I haven't met that adroit a dissembler. Non-progress in a daily scrum rarely takes long to discover. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 13:16 | comment | added | Thomas Owens♦ | This can fail when you have someone who doesn't bring up problems. I wouldn't call that a very common issue on teams that I've worked on, but I have seen it myself. So in addition to having the meeting, you need to work with people to make sure everyone's bringing up problems, concerns, and other issues in front of the team. Part of it is team culture and meeting structure, the other is individual behavior. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 3:06 | comment | added | S.Lott | If "you don't have a Scrum Master that makes sure these impediments get resolved," Then you've got a perfectly awful project organization. That's the first thing that needs to be fixed. If you're going to claim that a bad project organization can magically work, that's an even more serious problem that needs to be fixed. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 0:44 | comment | added | mkopala | Having a daily scrum or standup is definitely a good idea, but you must ensure that impediments that are brought up get addressed. Many times, just voicing them is enough, but if someone mentions a problem but doesn't specifically ask for help, someone doesn't volunteer to help, or you don't have a Scrum Master that makes sure these impediments get resolved, then it's still a problem. Also, a day may be way too long to wait. | |
| Jan 5, 2012 at 0:26 | history | answered | S.Lott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |