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Asking the team for alternatives

Asking the team for alternatives

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Asking the team for alternatives

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- Now there are three situations when asking the team for alternatives could be the answer to getting great results. The first situation is when only one design approach has been considered. For example, you're in a backlog refinement meeting discussing a user story. The team quickly identifies a solution and gets into the nitty gritty details. Now let them dig into those details for a bit, but then, ask what other alternative approaches to this should we consider? It's asking these key questions at the right point in time that's powerful. OK, next situation. When discussing a defect resolution, it's so easy to jump to conclusions and assumptions about how to fix it. When you see this happening, ask the team what alternatives do we have to fixing this defect? The team might quickly admit they're not sure because they're not clear on the root cause, and dialog will start to ensue on the team and this is what you want. This is a good place to let the dialog happen and see what…

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