When a task is overwhelming I start by writing everything about it down. It helps to see the whole context and is a great way to initiate the real work.
Remote retro with RetroTool
Today we run our first remote retrospective using http://retrotool.io for cards & http://zoom.us for video conferencing. The context: two people developing remotely, after 1,5 week of work, we met to discuss how we are doing We decided to use the http://retrotool.io. Why this one? Few reasons: it is dead simple it seems to work it…
The carpet that bothered them
It happens that when you suggest a retrospective meeting to a team you hear something like: “we sit together and talk often, why the hell should we waste our time for another meeting?” Makes sense, doesn’t it? And yet, my whole experience tells me otherwise. Even though we talk with each other every day, even…
Read it again
Go back to the books you read years ago. The ones you still think about after all these years. The ones you learned a lot from. The ones that helped, inspired or changed you. What will happen? A new discoveries will happen. You see, the things you learn from a book aren’t only what author…
Printing nicely formatted time in Google Spreadsheet
If you need to change some numbers into nicely formatted hours in Google Spreadsheet, then this article is for you. So let us say I calculate some time in minutes and want to print it as a nicely formatted hour. This is the formula that makes it happen (where A2 is the cell number to…
3 Daily Scrum Questions Considered Harmful
Still using 3 standard questions for your daily Scrum? Oh, bad news for you: you are doing it wrong.
Transparency in Scrum and Sociocracy 3.0
The different approach to transaprency by Scrum and Sociocracy 3.0
Start with the facts
I was reading Mo Gawdat’s “Solve for happy” and among other brilliant stuff I found there, there was a lot about concentrating on here & now, and also on how to stop your brain from wandering around but make it stick to the facts. And then I realized, that starting with the facts arand postponing…
JOY of Reading or ROI of Reading?
Do you love to read? Do you devour new articles that your social media peers recommend? If so, you might fall in the same trap I did. How much of what I read actually stays in my head? Which of the ideas, and tips, and good advices that (I thought) I learned created a long-lasting…
2 Productivity Tips That Cost You Nothing (And Give You A Lot!)
Are you being continuously distracted? I definitely am! And I know that it will never end — the everyday whirlwind doesn’t stop even for a minute. You can’t remove it or silence it completely. But what you can — and probably should — is to avoid adding your own distractions. Here are two simple tips that I recommend. Send Email But…