What standard "best" practice did you/your team stop doing? What happened?

combined session about 'best' practices / processes that were stopped, and whether it created a new practice

Practices that have been stopped by the participants

• Estimation
• Retrospectives
• Demos
• Strice adherence to coding standards / style
• Testing coverage goals
  • Often in place in contracts with supplier relations
  • Especially line coverage
• Code reviews for all changes
  • non-blocking reviews: rely on pipeline to tackle risks, making review more about architecute, code structure etc. that can be fixed forward (ticketed)
• Detailed technial stories, instead focusing more on user problem
• Too strict avoidance of DRY
• Stories strictly owned by one person
  • Leads to WIP >= team members
  • Instead focus on getting the important work done as a team

Other thoughts

• Agile manifesto authors in high agency roles, respected experts. Easier to work in certain way compared to the average developer being a small contributor in a large setting
• Croatian saying: "Far from the eyes, far from the heart" (trust and need to meet people)
• People need to eat together to build trust
• Lack of f2f time and eating together likely causing a lot of lack of trust in remote-work times.
  • Harder to integrated -> plenty of turnover and shorter stays with a company