This is the third installment of the series devoted to high WIP. The first one explained the general issues of the high WIP. In the second one, we listed the specific problems typical for software development team. In the last installment of the series, we will look at how high WIP affects the team’s morale….
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What is WIP (Work in Progress)
WIP, or Work in Progress (AKA Work in Process) is the number of tasks that the team is currently working on. All the tasks which have been started, but have not been completed yet, increase the WIP. Thus, if the first column on our kanban board is ToDo, and the last one is Production, then…
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…
3 Daily Scrum Questions Considered Harmful
I met an old man today. He smelled heavenly like a freshly groomed Product Backlog and literally oozed with agile smartness. He gave me an old parchment with few words of wisdom written on this. Then he vanished Cheshire Cat style (his wise and forgiving smile vanished last). I tried to decipher the parchment and…
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….
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review – Part 2
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] Since the last blog post(see http://tomek.kaczanowscy.pl/2016/12/sociocracy-3-0-effectiveness-review/) we run 2 more effectiveness reviews (ER in short). This blog post gathers my thought, comments and lessons learned. Hope you find it useful. Preparations. Based on previous experience I took the following steps to make the next effectiveness…
Sociocracy 3.0 Effectiveness Review
[Feb 2018: S3 changed the name from Effectiveness Review to Peer Review] I rarely write about S3, but when I do, it is long and boring. 🙂 Below you will find my experiences with the S3 effectiveness review – an idea that I borrowed from S3. I hope that maybe some comments that I share will help…
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…