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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by latchkey on Thursday January 02, 2020 @03:30AM (#21933793)
It isn't black and white like that. The team always has a voice and can express it at any time. Communication is always key and that is the whole point of developers pointing stories. They could just call a story 8 points and the PM would never get it into the backlog. =)
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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by ec109685 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:26AM (#21934230)
Right, but that is different than the PM asking the development team what we should do this iteration.
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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by latchkey on Thursday January 02, 2020 @06:14AM (#21934476)
The PM is the conduit between the business needs and the developers. The PM and the lead team dev decides the backlog. Devs just pick the next story from the queue, but of course they have input on things as well and can convey this in any of the meetings or directly with the core dev or PM.
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Re:Hard deadlines are not user-first by ec109685 on Thursday January 02, 2020 @08:41PM (#21942159)
Yes they can coney things, but it isn’t by default. Having conduits, etc. is a waterfall approach.
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