The 2 most popular ways to run daily meetings (but you should use the 2nd one!)
Tag: meetings
TeamRetro – YAORT (Yet Another Online Retrospective Tool)
Yet Another Online Retrospective Tool but this one, TeamRetro, works good for us.
Killing daily meeting (one dev at a time)
Daily meeting can go horribly wrong. One of the anti-patterns is to follow the “dev by dev” approach. There are better ways.
Decider AKA Hand Gestures
If only decision taking was as simple as presenting your thumb up or down! Well, actually, it can be. 🙂
The secret of successful meetings? It is you.
There is one host (facilitator) and usually 5-8 participants. Now, whose behavior has more impact on the meeting effectiveness?
Team feedback – retrospective with goReflect
My experiences of using goReflect to run remote retrospective. Worked really well for me.
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…
Towards perfect 1on1s
When I started I had only a vague idea of what I want: I wasn’t happy with how my 1on1s look like and I wanted to improve them. I started by writing down a rough version of my goal: “conduct perfect 1on1s”. I looked at it critically. The goal was very vague. I understood immediately…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review – Part 4
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] The ERs have entered a new phase: it was the first time we run it for the second time for the same person. Few short comments and notes: If you have no (good) role description, you end up with feedback session, not a real…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review – Part 3
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] My comments written down after the 4th effectiveness review (ER) at Codewise. First of all, the ERs are becoming “no-events”. I mean, people know what to expect (both the hero of ER and the participants). They come prepared, they know what to expect….