Workshops
Explore how Agile workshops bring diverse team roles together to align on work items quickly and effectively. Learn techniques to prepare, structure, and capture workshop outcomes to improve collaboration and avoid hand-offs, ensuring faster decisions and clearer commitments in Agile projects.
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Advantages of a workshop
Although not all Agile approaches specifically mention the use of workshops, they can be very effective in Agile projects. For example, for a rapid discussion on one or more work items, simultaneously as a team. Some advantages of workshops in Agile projects are:
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Multidisciplinary
Workshops in agile projects are multidisciplinary. All roles that are necessary to achieve the purpose of the workshop are represented. Thus, in a a short period of time, all the different viewpoints on the work-item can be highlighted. All workshop participants make direct use of the knowledge and experience of the other participants and roles.
A tester has a very different view on a user story or smart use case than a domain expert or a developer. A tester is mainly focused on exceptions, whereas the domain expert and developer focus on the main points and the developer sees the technical possibilities and limitations.
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Alignment
During a workshop, all the different views on a work item will come to light. That way, it’s easier for the team to align toward a jointly chosen solution. ...