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Juan Avor's avatar

Useful tips at the end. Still struggling to build that kind of environment. Company culture influence that a lot.

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Elena Calvillo's avatar

It does! So do previous bad experiences. Sometimes, the best you can do is trust in your team and constantly remind them what you expect from them and that you care about their work and else.

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Mike Watson's avatar

Post mortem is solid - great points in this one. Have you dabbled with pre-mortems?

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Elena Calvillo's avatar

I haven’t had that pleasure, only risk assessment. Anything you recommend? I’d love to get more details on this!

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Mike Watson's avatar

I have only done it once and it was a good way of deciding whether we were willing to live with the messed up things we knew about already. This link has a good framing:

https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/use-a-pre-mortem-to-identify-project-risks-before-they-occur

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Elena Calvillo's avatar

This is great. I appreciate it, Mike!

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Benedikt Kantus's avatar

A very good summary of how to conduct post mortems. Nice how you subtly include concepts like “build traps”!

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