During development process in agile method, you might have heard about “blocker” in the stand up meetings. Most of them just say as a part of the process during there turn.

What different ways you would approach to tackle this blocker?

I would like to tell some of my experience from various organization.

1. Some teams would take it to the next level and proactively talk to the concerned person to resolve issue if related to the infrastructure or some third party related issues, fair enough simple and straight forward.
2. Some would talk to the project managers or scrum master to discuss further.
3. Few cases when there is a blocker, all the developers would get together and discuss on that blocker immediately after the stand up.
4. Some just say there is a blocker in the stand up and sit on there own and keep struggling to resolve the issue, and would not approach for help.
5. Some would procrastinate and move on to another task.
6. Some would take a shortcut to fix the issue.

which one of the above would suit the best while you are working in a agile development team at your organisation? I know you would say depends on the type of blocker based on that you would take one of the above choice.

I have seen for most of the blockers in the project, can be easily and quickly resolved if you opt for option 3 for developers. Because someone has an better idea, or must have worked on it before or may be they understand much better in that area.

I think many of us are willing to take option 4. Issue with option 4 is we don’t know how long it would take also you might not know if it’s the right choice as you might approach dead end of that solution. Also people start googling for the issue which you might not find appropriate answers.

Option 3 develops collaboration between team members, many would think that it could be a silly question to ask, as the other developer might think I don’t know the answer for a simple thing. Lots of question comes to your mind, end of the day people forget they are solving problems in a software for an organization, not solving there personal problems.

Also scrum master or project mangers needs to encourage this culture so that it saves time and increase productivity and the knowledge is shared between developers. So when the similar issues re appears all the developers would already know the solution.

In the picture above the water is blocked by the rocks, and slows down the flow. Think of removing this rock first before you move further to the next sprint as a team. Don’t forget you are working in a team. The more number of rocks in a sprint, it would slow down the entire team.

GeniusLead follows Option 3 as one of the core principle.

– Deepak Roy

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At what age did your learn to ride a bike? What methods did you try to ride a bike? Did you fall while learning? Balance is the first step as we all know, but question is how to make it simpler?

Easy way to teach is removing stabilisers, pedals and start to scoot. Automatically you would learn to balance. We can apply this technique in every aspect of life, any new skills we learn or any project we work on. Start with ground work sprint ZERO before we jump on to sprint 1. But we always tumble by adding two components TIME and COMPARISON (with others) to the entire learning or development process and start worrying about it. We need to REMEMBER there was NO concept of TIME 500 years ago, no one really cared about time they JUST DID IT whatever they did.

For comparison there was no communication with outer world so they never bothered to rush. All the creativity in this world happens in it’s own time, all the inventions and discoveries happened this way. WAIT and WATCH patiently.

When we are at around 6 years old back in time, first time learning maths to add, subtract multiply. Not sure if anyone of us would have thought where exactly it is applicable in the real world, where it should be used or how it us useful. Even if we had thought their was no proper tools or techniques as it was limited and not accessible due to various factors. I think many of us just learnt it because it is either teacher or parents were asking us to learn or because other kids were learning and to score good marks. Happened to me as well when I was at school there was no much practical exposure to relate to the real world and was very curious to know everything. Now a days I can see lot’s of schools simulating a shop at school where kids get involved in each role, which is great and fantastic way of teaching. But still I think as a parent we need to involve kids giving them opportunity to explore the real world and to make then understand how to apply simple maths in various places. I know they would learn anyways when they grow older, but i think any skills we learn needs to be learnt in a conscious way otherwise there is no value of learning. Examples I can think we can incorporate and add value to their learning.

1) While filling the fuel you can always explain about litres and the cost per litre and ask them to multiple to get the cost.
2) Giving them money to buy any household items and ask them if they would get back change (here they can learn subtraction).
3) Addition – count trees, or count tress of a type, count ducks etc

What you people do to encourage your kids to learn more practical or any ideas please share??