Review Your Mission

Before returning to the team space, you take time out to remind yourself of the goals of the engagement. It’s important to always have the end in mind if you’re to achieve your goals.

During your first meeting with Patrick, you cowrote the goals along with the acceptance criteria in the form of a user story. Below is what you both agreed on up front. Patrick made it clear back then that, given the recent poor delivery record of the team, delivery is now top priority, followed by ideas for helping the team improve its process.

PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS

As a management team, we need a list of recommendations so that the Dream Team delivers some value for this release and knows how to improve its team performance over time. ...

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