Contact Visits
After a seeding visit (ideally at the start of the project but perhaps not) has established an initial relationship, contact visits are used to maintain those relationships. As with a seeding visit, a contact visit should be oriented around completing a task (planning, designing a solution to a problem, or so on) but, as Fowler says, “Remember that the primary purpose of the visit isn’t to do the task but to build the working relationship.” He suggests that one-week visits be done at least every couple of months (2006).
Some teams find that quarterly release planning is a good time to bring the whole team back together. Consider the case of a product with plans to put out a new release approximately every three months over the ...
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