Retrospectives Pre-Requirements
Hi guys, this blog is part of our book: “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives”, a book written by me and Ben Linders with the foreword from Esther Derby. The book can be downloaded by free in...
View ArticleRetrospective Smells
Hi guys, last post I wrote about pre requisites for a good retrospective. In this post I will write about the opposite: “Retrospective Smells”, this means that I will mention several things that you...
View ArticleChange one thing at a time!
Hi guys, I have been talking a lot about retrospectives during last weeks. Mainly because our project, “Getting Value out of Retrospectives” was built but also because of my active participation in...
View ArticleDo retrospectives more often!!!
Hi guys, in my last post I explained why I think we should take a single item out from a retrospective. This post received some interesting feedback. One of the examples is: “If a team is big or if...
View ArticleWhy do we lose time with root causes analysis in Retrospectives?
Hi guys, in my previous post I explained why we should chose only one issue to improve in our retrospectives. This time I want to discuss what to do with that “single issue”. One of the big reasons why...
View ArticleSuccess Criteria for Retrospective Topics
Hi guys, this blog will be short and simple :). My last posts were about the reason why we should chose a single topic to take out of a retrospective and why we should do a proper root cause analysis...
View ArticleAnti Pattern – Change Scrum Master often
Changing the Scrum Master role within the team is something that I hear time to time. Fortunately not that often. The defenders of this theory claim this is beneficial for the team and for the...
View ArticleScrum Master as a Servant Leader
Servant Leader In the SCRUM world, a Scrum Master is often known as a Servant Leader, but I believe that very few people actually know what a Servant Leader really is. Based on this assumption, I am...
View ArticleHow to have an efficient Stand Up Meeting
Stand Up Meeting During the last years of my life every time I join a company I hear developers saying that Stand Up Meetings are boring and they are a waste of time. For me its always fun to hear...
View ArticleProduct Owner Anti Patterns
Product Owner Smells During whole my professional life, people spent hours telling me the importance of good design patterns. I believe all of us bought books about design partners, cookbook recipes or...
View ArticleGetting Value out of Agile Retrospectives:”Happiness Index”
In this post, I will explain the exercise “Happiness Index”. This exercise can be found in the book: “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives”, a book written by me and Ben Linders with the foreword...
View ArticleGetting Value out of Agile Retrospectives: High Performance Tree
Hi guys, in this post I will explain how can you use “High Performance Tree” created by Lyssa Adkins. This exercise is deeply explained in the book: “Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for Scrum...
View ArticleGetting Value out of Agile Retrospectives: “SailBoat Exercise”
Hi guys, in this post I will explain how can you use SailBoat exercise as a tool for a retrospective. I learned this exercise few years ago when I worked together with Vasco Duarte. Few weeks ago I saw...
View ArticleTeamwork – Becoming a high performing team
Teamwork Hi guys, some time ago I discussed how important it is for a company to have a vision, here you can find more about it. In this post I would like to discuss about the same topic but on a team...
View Article9 Agile Retrospectives AntiPatterns
Hi guys, for past weeks I have been writing about anti-patterns, e.g. 20 Product Owners AntiPatterns or 8 Agile, Scrum Antipatterns – Scrum Masters. This post will be about: “Agile Retrospectives...
View ArticleGetting Value out of Agile Retrospectives:”Happiness Index”
In this post, I will explain the exercise “Happiness Index”. This exercise can be found in the book: “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives”, a book written by me and Ben Linders with the foreword...
View ArticleAgile Retrospectives: The Two-Way Street
“Let him who would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates We all know why we have retrospectives, right? Ultimately they’re a mechanism with which a team can reveal and discuss dysfunction...
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