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    1. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei 16 Dec 2017

      They can set an arbitrary date, but then it’s their job internally to negotiate a definition of done that will meet it. Without crunch time.

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    2. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei 16 Dec 2017

      Yes, setting realistic dates & doing this internal negotiation is an art, and hard to do right all the time.

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    3. Sarah Mei‏Verified account @sarahmei 16 Dec 2017

      The important part is that the risk is shouldered by the whole organization, instead of solely by the individual developers.

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    4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @sarahmei

      Fascinating. I wholeheartedly agree with this, but wouldn't have thought of this as a heuristic. Usually corps that try to make individual devs shoulder the risk fundamentally don't trust devs ("how will we know if they're doing work without #accountability")

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    5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @wycats @sarahmei

      I've been using a "every task/project is assigned to at *minimum* two developers" policy for a few years. It's amazing how even that small tweak changes things.

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    6. Benjamin راغب‏ @benzado 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @wycats @sarahmei

      This is interesting. Is each developer assigned to a single task/project or are multiple concurrent assignments allowed?

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    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @benzado @sarahmei

      The responsibility for the task is assigned to a pair; they can divide up the work however they want. Lots of pair programming in practice, but people are free to mix it up based on the demands of the problem.

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    8. Benjamin راغب‏ @benzado 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @wycats @sarahmei

      I meant can I be simultaneously assigned to work on X with Alice and Y with Bob, or do I only have one active thing at a time? I guess this depends on project/task size. (Trying to figure out how to apply it to a team of 3-4.)

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    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @benzado @sarahmei

      We typically queue up a few tasks at the beginning of the week and people do them one at a time. If it seems possible for the pair to finish them all before the end of the week, we find a few "stretch" tasks. It's never a big deal if people don't finish.

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    10. Benjamin راغب‏ @benzado 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @wycats @sarahmei

      Gotcha: “Alice and Bob, here's what's on your plate this week, next week we'll move things around if we want.” Do you try to mix up the pairs? Or let the pairs become buddy-cop partners?

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      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 16 Dec 2017
      Replying to @benzado @sarahmei

      The latter, mostly. We try to allocate time for mentor-pairing to unblock people who feel stuck conceptually, so there's some mixing up there. And sometimes people are out of the office (vacation, etc) so people mix up there too. But broadly pairs are longer term.

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