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Hard to be and to stay flat structured organisation

Many people, especially in flat structured organisations, say that they don’t need managers. Right, but from my point of view it’s getting possible only if everyone in the organisation is on the same page, can easily and openly communicate to each other, knows where their product is growing, everyone is highly motivated and nobody has high career ambitions. The best example of flat structured organisation is a startup working in a small garage. Definitely they don’t need managers, they know what they are building, they can communicate to each other and they define their business strategy. Problems come with growing of the product where one day they will have to start hiring new people. Staying flat structured means working hard together and make decisions together, not only technical decisions but strategic and managerial as well. More your company grow, more difficult it is to keep flat structure working well, more time it requires to convince others in chosen directions and business...

QA in SCRUM

SCRUM framework has well defined structure, roles and responsibilities. All Quality assurance aspects are distributed between scrum representatives of all levels: Agile Coaches are responsible for quality of agile processes (Quality of processes on company or development department level) Scrum Masters  monitor and help that teams to follow scrum ceremonies and rules and delivery increments in time (Quality of processes on team level) Product Owners are responsible for the product’s value, backlog and prioritisation (Quality of requirements and delivered product) Development team is responsible for quality of delivered increment and development process Developers - design, solution and code quality, QA/Testers - take active part in grooming/refinement sessions to ensure that feature will be tested properly, corresponds to user story acceptance criteria and not bringing issues to the existing product. Perform testing of implemented features and ensure that quality criteria are ...