Flag Reminder for the story/Task

Flag Reminder for the story/Task

Simple Ideas for handling some situations for better team/product progress visibility with a remote team.

Raising a flag early when any blocker is found is one of the tips to help the team to get things done smoothly without delays.

Situation

  • Developer/Testing/Designer. etc ( owner of the task) faced a problem with the task example ( code problem, found missing requirement, dependency problem, task estimation changed due to unplanned bugs found or clean code or anything, etc )
  • Developer tries to solve it until he/she misses the deadline
  • No environment to show that he/she is blocked and asking for help not only the standup

Scrum master

Your role

  • Build the habit of flagging the task early as you are facing a problem that may impact the delivery.
  • Facilitate to him/her the space/channel/environment/ tools where he/she can find support and good communication with others
  • Always remind the team by raising the flag early and putting it in the team ground rules.
  • Teach them how they can raise a flag in the tool so it can be trackable and obvious on the team board so anyone in the team can jump to help.
  • Raise a flag to the product owner or product manager that we have a problem in this specific Task/Story so he can prioritize the delivery or communicate to the business team or stakeholder with the updates.

Impact

  • Delays in the Task/Story delivery that lead to sprint delays
  • Other bugs may raise due to he/she forgetting to say that this task may impact other feature codes.
  • No environment to show the flag let the team forget about the delay and no follow-up to support or facilitate.

Solution

  • Always Remind the team in the standup and ask if they have any blockers
  • Always remind the team in the standup to Flag his/her task in the used tool ( ex: jira) so any one of the team can jump to help, and have a good history to inspect and adapt.
  • We can Run a small simple script using the Jira automation rule, so it can send a scheduled reminder for the team by the flagged tasks/stories, so we can all follow up on them.

Here we use slack as a communication tool and Jira for Tasks/Stories

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