When working as a team, I always wanted to know what exactly Everything is going on. Or in Scrum, it is defined as Transparency. The perfect world where there is no secret, no hidden agendas, nothing behind the curtain, no room for backstabbing to happen.
When implementing Scrum, a lot of people implement the framework itself but not really understand why it is designed that way. In Scrum, anyone can go to any meeting, not anyone is required to do so.
A junior team member can participate in a Scrum Planning to understand how it is done or how the Senior member think or solve a problem
Any stakeholder can observe a Daily Stand-up or attend a Review for a better understanding of what is going on in a team
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Transparency is NOT for the manager to micro-manage the individuals but for the team itself to address individual performance issues. When everything is transparent, the team will actually know what people are doing, who is helping, who is hurting, who makes the team great and who makes it painful. That will make the team have its own adjustments and therefore, evolve to a better stage.
Keeping secret from people simply slows everyone down. Plus, it breeds suspicion and distrust. If you can't trust the people you are hiring to be on board with what you are doing, you are either hiring the wrong people OR you have set up a system that has failure in it.
However, transparency is not one people work. Everyone needs to put their effort into the system to make it work. The end goal is simple: Make the work speaks for itself. Make sure everything is in the correct state, discuss the problems in the public chat channels so that everyone can help if they experienced the same issue. Put every material or discussion within the item itself so that everyone can read the history of the discussion and why we came up with the solution...
Once the communication is transparent, there will be no need for the question: What is going on?
When working as a team, I always wanted to know what exactly Everything is going on. Or in Scrum, it is defined as Transparency. The perfect world where there is no secret, no hidden agendas, nothing behind the curtain, no room for backstabbing to happen.
When implementing Scrum, a lot of people implement the framework itself but not really understand why it is designed that way. In Scrum, anyone can go to any meeting, not anyone is required to do so.
Transparency is NOT for the manager to micro-manage the individuals but for the team itself to address individual performance issues. When everything is transparent, the team will actually know what people are doing, who is helping, who is hurting, who makes the team great and who makes it painful. That will make the team have its own adjustments and therefore, evolve to a better stage.
Keeping secret from people simply slows everyone down. Plus, it breeds suspicion and distrust. If you can't trust the people you are hiring to be on board with what you are doing, you are either hiring the wrong people OR you have set up a system that has failure in it.
However, transparency is not one people work. Everyone needs to put their effort into the system to make it work. The end goal is simple: Make the work speaks for itself. Make sure everything is in the correct state, discuss the problems in the public chat channels so that everyone can help if they experienced the same issue. Put every material or discussion within the item itself so that everyone can read the history of the discussion and why we came up with the solution...
Once the communication is transparent, there will be no need for the question: What is going on?