What best practices should we be aiming for to get great products delivered? [closed]

Question

The web development team I work in works with a user experience team that follow User Centered Design principles. Together we all work within Scrum.

What best practices should we be aiming for to get great products delivered?

Answer 1

Stewart, judging by your question and subsequent comments it sounds like you have a people problem as opposed to a project management problem. Scrum is great for prioritised, iterative delivery in a customer centric fashion but if the underlying human interaction is flawed you’re going to be fighting an uphill battle.

So in response to “what best practices you should be aiming for to get great products delivered”, start on the social side. If it’s a large group perhaps you have an HR department that can assist. It sounds like a bit of team building and mutual respect would be a good starting point then you can work on the business of actually creating software.