1
Do you know some techniques that can be used instead of dot-voting? (I'm not referring to more 'official' methods like MoSCoW or Value/Effort matrix - frequently at the stage we don't have all data to switch to them).
The simplest use case: We have a team retro, where each team member writes a note of some problem has occurred last sprint - then everyone participating to the retro has N votes (3 usually) that are spend of voting of the most important topic to discuss.
I believe the dot-voting has a few biases: - members can vote on already most voted item - members vote on their topic - the most common (not necessary most important topic) problem is top-voted
So far I didn't find any simple but more correct alternative to the dot-voting. Do you share the same problem? Do you have some idea what can be used instead or how the dot-voting can be improved?
But my problem is that similar to memory leak, I'm facing with the time leak. I spend a lot of time on meetings, or provide support to systems that nobody else knows about. Some of the I wrote, some of them I just get known and I left alone.
It's hard to get rid of that legacy baggage, so that I think a "fresh start" will be the only option to get some air - but it's almost impossible to stay in one company and have a fresh start.
If you are for a long time on one company: How did you survive? How do you optimize your time?