Ping your team

Sometimes it is very reasonable to PING your team and get PONG.

The thing is - it is quite helpful sometime ask your team to answer on some questions concerning current Project to make sure that team do understand everything same way. Another way it will be very hard for team members to reach goals of the Sprint.

For example - in one of my Projects we are working on Usability of the system. What is usability? is it measurable? is it using of Ajax?

I have asked team members to write to me e-mail - what do you mean, whan you are talking about Usability? - i have got 9 answers, they were really about something similar - but some people include in Usability - security, some of them - design. So - there were no same understanding concerning what are we going to have at the and of the Sprint.

When Sprint Goal is to improve usability - what exactly should be done? How would we understand that we have completed Sprint? How could we measure it?

As PM it is quite helpful to make sure that your team is talking on the same language, i am not talking about english or russian, i am talking about terms, which you are using in your Project.