Will this hurt my Daily Scrum? And how do we deal with “non-dev” work?

10/05/15 • 8 min

Jamie has two questions: the first is about the Daily Scrum, the second is about how to account for work a team needs to do that doesn’t directly affect the product they’re building. I’ll answer both questions this episode, and let you know how you can help shape the podcast moving forward. Help improve the...

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