During the Unexpected Meetup: 1st Open Space I had an opportunity to discuss the topic of changes with fellow Scrum Masters / Team Leads / Agile Coaches. Here are some notes (subjective and incomplete): Books to read: Our Iceberg Is Melting More Fearless Change You shouldn’t expect that your team will come with new change proposal…
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Card Colors on Kanban Board
There are many ways to organize your kanban (or scrum) boards. One difference is the meaning of colors of cards. Here are some examples of how we can use colors so that the board tells us as much as possible about the current work. Size of task One team I worked with used the following…
Retro Game – New Year Predictions – Results
One year ago I blogged about a game we played during retrospecitve. A year has passed and it was time to open this “time-capsule”. No one guessed the right answer to all 13 questions, but some people were pretty close on many of them. Some questions got kind of outdated – e.g. we asked about the number…
ACE! Conference 2015
ACE! Conference 2015 is (unfortunately) over. Great time, great people, great event! It was the first time I attended an agile conference, and I have to admit, I enjoyed it. I listened to few really interesting talks, and I had some interesting conversations with other attendees. There were also some very interesting discussions during the…
Ending Life of Kanban Cards (Vlad The Impaler Fatality)
The question is what to do with the kanban cards after they were taken from your kanban board? The simplest answer is to “throw them away”. Well, yes, sure, they are not needed anymore. My colleagues from the next-door team (hello @tkowalcz!) have a different idea. The cards end up on a stake. Sweet, isn’t…
Retro Game – New Year Predictions
The beginning of a year seems like a good time for some predictions. Today I planned a very short and simple game for my team to check our future telling abilities. (picture from http://freedomwatch.ipa.org.au) I have printed out a short form with some questions related to our product and the team. The questions were are…
Code Reviews Mindmap
Code reviews. Very helpful if done right, completely useless if done recklessly. Below you will find a mindmap of “code review” (using Xmind). I simply sat down and tried to gather everything related to code reviews. Hopefully you will find some food for thought here. Some comments: I knew one team lead (hello Marcin! 🙂…
What is “Done”?
When can you say that a task is done? This is an old topic but still important and still being discussed over and over by almost any team. Lately my team decided to come with a definition of done. This post presents our view on “what is ‘done’?”. Introduction We tried to address every aspect…