In my last post, I discussed about sustainable pace and how nation and organisation culture comes in its way. One of the issues often found is people on scrum teams being too focussed and busy on the projects and having no time for their own research, self-study, upgrading themselves on new things etc. This leads to lesser learnings from outside world and limits the growth of people.
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don’t be afraid to fail.
be afraid not to try.
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Introducing or rather planning slack time on the team gives free time for people to work on their pet projects. Different organisations have done it differently, like:
- Giving a break between sprints
- Following 80/20 principle, 20% free time for people to think and work on their interest
- One free day in a month
- Having a small time reserved every sprint
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