Involving the right people while developing the project schedule can do wonders but most of the participants especially functional managers or their representatives hesitate to participate in this exercise. What according to you are the steps project manager or the project team should take to ensure participation of all for this crucial exercise. Saving Changes...
- Roles and Responsibilities must be clear
- Business drives priorities
- Schedule development process must be understood as a team excercise that is iterative and not a one-time excercise
- Team needs a "safe environment", that means estimation gets better by experience. Team needs to understand own velocity and learn by each sprint estimate and management needs to understand that estimation is top-down and only the next coming sprint is estimated in detail, the next ones more roughly. Estimation improves over the iteration cycles and management should not force the team to deliver "100% correct" estimates first time. Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
I find one-on-one meetings elicit much more involvement in activities felt to be outside of their domain. Saving Changes...
