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Re:Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made ... by Huggernaut on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:08AM (#10850841)
At least where I work (Pivotal) where we are often rotating between pairs, and changing tracks of work in the order of every day to every few days, being kept up to date on the state of the rest of the work is useful.

Additionally, we use it as a chance to bring up anything we need help with, or anything we found interesting in the last day, which wasn't important enough to interrupt the rest of the team with.

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Re:Ditching Scrum for Kanban - The best decision we’ve made ... by douche on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:17PM (#10851791)
> where we are often rotating between pairs, and changing tracks of work in the order of every day to every few days

These sort of working arrangements sound horribly inefficient. How do you ever get enough real familiarity with what you're actually doing when you're getting jerked around to something different every couple days? It sounds like being constantly on the treadmill.

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