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Our new shame card: If you break the build somebody writes you up on Twitter where the world can mock you.
No, we don't really do this, but...
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It's people like you you suck all the joy out of a room of developers.
Greg,
That was a joke. You understand a joke, right?
Nice. I still have a rabies toy for breaking the build over three weeks ago.
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We have 'The Dragon of Shame'. If you break the build, The Dragon lives on your desk until someone else breaks the build.
The toys in kinder eggs have to be useful for something...
I know this is a joke Jeremy, and I know it's all in the sense of humor , but doesn't this go against agile teams in the sense of not pointing the blame but trying to fix the problem?
I used to use a mouse ball that we just referred to as "the ball." If someone broke the build or something like that, we'd take "the ball" over, put it on their desk, and say "I think you may have dropped this." They'd keep it until someone else broke the build. I would also give "the ball" to other people depending on the circumstances. It was a good tool
Never underestimate the power of shame in a self organizing team. It's the same tool that makes "what I accomplished yesterday" question effective in daily scrums.
The ability to joke about something like this is a sign of a great team. If you can't see the fun in this, then your team members are probably a bit too sensitive.
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