Finally, at precisely 10 a.m., the project sync meeting takes place in front of the project board. The people at this meeting are informally referred to as the cross-team (or tvärgrupp in Swedish)—a cross-section of the whole project. In our case, that equates to one person from each specialty and one person from each feature team, plus a few other folks such as the project manager, configuration manager, and myself. The project sync meeting is where we look at the big picture, focusing on the flow of functionality from analysis to production: Which team is doing what today? What is blocking
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