Being a manager means you can no longer turn a blind eye to some behaviours. Which is one of many reasons that management is hard.
Personal User Manual
User manual is like a dishwasher manual but it is about you. However strange it might sound, it helps other to cooperate with you. It really does. Give it a try!
Sprint Sheriff
Try rotating your team roles in a round-robin fashion. Each sprint have a different team member responsible for repeatable (and often mundane) activities.
Parallel Universe
How to measure what is hard to measure? This one trick can help.
Simple & Powerful Sprint Capacity Planning Technique
A simple trick that could help you better predict the capacity of your next sprints. All you need to do is to gather some more data about the past ones.
Social Media & News Detox
Browsing social media brings anxiety and sadness – so why do it at all? I try to strictly limit my online presence both on social media and news sites.
Dream a Little Dream of… 2021
Visualize your dreams (big and small) together with your family. Fun guaranteed, but more than fun only.
Writer’s Block
Write a blog post every week to keep your audience engaged? No. Don’t. Just don’t.
Publish Feedback To All Participants
After receiving feedback from participants share it with them. Yes, everything they reported. There are numerous benefits to this.
Sandwiches Are Evil
Don’t use feedback sandwich! It doesn’t work and will do more harm than good. There are much better approaches to giving feedback.