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…
Tag: scrum
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
Retrospective Tool: Improv Cards
Yet another retrospective warm-up exercise. But a good one.
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…
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…