Thursday, December 8, 2011

Tech Lead Checklist to Kick your Team into Gear

DAILY

Require written standup reports each day. Read ALL standup reports. If someone did not write a standup report, contact them by chat or email, and escalate if they do not respond.
Attend a daily chat. Ask for comments and issues. Make it short. Move long discussions offline.
Resolve any needs or roadblocks posted in StandUp by a team member in the scrum chat.
Look at the detailed activity report for each developer.
Move any request, agreement to a ticket/message/wiki. Do not rely on chat agreements because they can’t be tracked.
Let team members select their own tasks. Balance load. Do not let team members work on many tickets concurrently. A team member should select one or two tickets to work on and finish. The rest are available for others to select.
If someone has been working for several days on one ticket, without committing, ask him to split it into smaller tasks.
WEEKLY

Review all tickets for the current milestone. Add or move depending on schedule and capacity.
Ask specific developers to take the planning and task breakdown for complex tickets, features, stories. To distribute the load, you should also be getting mockups and stories/scenarios from a non-developer product owner.
Write and post a message about what the team did last week and what the team will do next week – a sort of scrum of scrums report
BI-WEEKLY TEAM BUILDING

Look at new developer applications and say who you are interested in. Someone else should handle the details of finding new candidates and then getting them started.
Do “onboarding”. Make sure each new developer has the information he needs, a development environment, and a simple task. Help the new developers to update the setup documentation. Send them contact information and an outline of the daily requirements (standup, chat, commits).
Evaluate trial developers near the end of the trial period. Look at all of their work, and evaluate productivity and quality. Write a little review. Say whether you want to continue working with them.


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