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The Problem Solving Tree (free exercise)
Retrospectives are one of the keys to successful agile teams. The ability to reflect and identify how to improve, and then to action those improvements are the very backbone of an empirical process. I...
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Retrospective Facilitator’s Gathering
In May I went to Germany for the 11th annual retrospective facilitators gathering. It is a week long open space unconference focused on retrospectives. It was an incredible experience for me, different...
View ArticleFacilitation: 5 Personal Questions
We have a passion for sharing techniques we have learned all over the world. Slowly we have built up quite a few of them and want to share them with you, as others have shared them with us. Please use...
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Our first book!
We are super excited to announce that we have just published our first book! It’s a short collection of 10 games on collaboration. We have published it via Leanpub and best of all it’s free! You can...
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Brain Science Talk
We have given this talk a few times now, and need a place to put all the goodies for those who attended the talk. We hope all the templates and the booklet are useful to you. We are privileged to have...
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10 Tips to Make Meetings Effective
Time is money. We all know it. And yet the vast majority of larger organisations suffer from time waste. You know when people sit in a meeting and don’t actually get to any conclusion? That is time...
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The Magic Column
Late last year, whilst on an Agile Testing course, Janet Gregory shared a little secret with us. We didn’t realise how awesome this secret was until we did a simulation and saw the effect on the entire...
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Retrospective Experiments
We often hear about people who do retrospectives but struggle to get the team to agree to actions that really make a difference. Sometimes people struggle to come up with actions if they did well in a...
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TFTBOTR?
TFTBOTR stands for Training from the Back of the Room. It is a training style developed by Sharon Bowman and explained in her excellent book of the same name. TFTBOTR is based on how adults learn and...
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How important is room layout?
As a facilitator, room layout is a big part of how successful a meeting or training is going to be. We have trained in all sorts of places, and if the room layout is not setup for good communication –...
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6 tips to make sure your training doesn’t suck :)
Today I had the dubious pleasure of attending a traditional training course. You know the type: Trainer stands at the front, his laptop and projector setup. The training is focussed on showing you how...
View ArticleAppreciation Cards – download now!
Too often we get caught up in the madness of the world and forget about all the little things that make life great. We have created a set of small cards for you to use with your team, or anyone in your...
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Agile Manager? What does that mean?
A tweet yesterday by a client got me to write this post. Here is Maritza’s tweet and a few others we shared. Over the last few years the term Agile Manager has become quite popular. My fear was that...
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7 tips to improve your standup
1. Check your time. Five minutes is too little, this means people are rattling off tasks but not really communicating. More than 15 minutes is too long, usually this indicates that some people are...
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A handy guide for coaching Product Owners
We often coach Product Owners. One of the things we’ve come to realise over time is that 2 day theoretical courses out of the office are not a great way to help Product Owners. Although these courses...
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What should a new ScrumMaster be doing?
We are coaching at a new client, helping them transition to Scrum. As a result we have a group of totally new ScrumMasters. Any new role with new responsibilities is a challenge. As an experienced...
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The Growing Agile monthly retrospective
Every month we have a company retrospective for at least 90 minutes. In 3 years it has proven to be of huge value. Every month we get on the same page with our values, what we are doing, what we want...
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One week sprint, 45 minute Retrospective plan
We are currently helping out at a client, and I found myself in the ScrumMaster role It’s been a while! They run one week sprints and their teams are 1 or 2 people and they change every month or so....
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Who owns the meetings in Scrum?
We are coaching a new team to use Scrum, and a question has popped up about who owns the various meetings in Scrum. Many people think that because the ScrumMaster is responsible for the process, they...
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Retrospective Plan from a new ScrumMaster
It’s always great as a coach when you see someone take what you have taught them and really embrace it. Rushida Hendricks is a new Scrum Master at Liberty Health. This is the retrospective plan she...
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