Rhythms: Patterns of Time
To a first approximation, it is more important that we attend to some tasks regularly than it is that we attend to them often. For example, it’s important to brush your teeth, and many people follow so-called proven recommendations of attending to it three times a day. Cope’s dentist recommends that if he does it really well, he needs to do it only once a day. Dina has learned that it is twice a day. What is important is that all of these recommendations have a rhythm, and as such, they lead to habit formation in human beings. By making events such as eating, or brushing your teeth, or planning upcoming work habitual, we can relieve the team of focusing on when, so they can focus on what. Thus, in Scrum it is best to ...
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