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by natoliniak 2693 days ago
- allow flexibility to work from home

- those who like open office can sit together, but for the rest, provide a semi-isolated quiet/dark area to concentrate in and a whiteboard.

- plenty of conference rooms.

- if expecting to work with new tech/framework, allow reasonable time to learn during work hours. - allow time for documenting

- allocate time for fixing tech debt every sprint

- provide training on the product being built

- give good insight into product decisions

- if unexpected work has to be added mid-sprint, pull something else out!

- acknowledged that when someone worked all weekend to finish something that they get a bonus day off some other time

- keep process meetings to minimum

- when a developer brings up a security flaw, take him/her seriously

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One slight alternative which I've had in the past was instead of debt pay down every sprint, it was every N sprints, we'd have a pay down sprint.