| I experienced this in Scrum planning, daily standups, and other rituals were done with Excel shared via Zoom (or similar) meetings. The Scrum Master would ask each team member a question (e.g. estimation, etc.) and then fill the Excel while online, wasting everyone's time. Same with planning, there will be some basic template for a sprint, and it will be filled with the estimations/Jira tickets during the online meeting! Given said that, there are some valid uses for shared spreadsheets in Product/SDLC. One method I used is specific for data engineering projects: the product fills Excel/Google Spreadsheet with the example input, output shapes in the form of tables, and the developers asking question while they arriving to common spec. Another is called Decision Matrix (almost as old as Periodic Table;), which was recently popularized by Rich Hickey in his talk Design in Practice[1,2]. Another valid usecase for shared spreadsheets is Use Cases table. --- [1] https://youtu.be/c5QF2HjHLSE?t=2351 [2] slide #31
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