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Discussion on: How to optimize time in your team? 💡

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Michiel Hendriks

Try to get rid of communication! People are terrible at communication, the more of it is needed the more time is lost.
A good team is composed of people who understand each other well. So a lot can be done with little communication.
Most ceremonies are about slow communication. Try to get rid of them, or reduce them as much as possible. Stand-ups, estimation meetings, retrospectives, pre-integration code reviews. They are all ceremonies which slow down productivity. Good teams don't really need them as much.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop

This is a controversial topic. A lot of times teams don't know each other so well. In most teams people change from time to time.

Having this said, I agree on reducing wasted times from meetings.
I think the more productive view on meetings would be to have them on demand. Do we have a hard topic or am I stuck? I can just call Joe and have a quick pair programming session or a design session with him.