Don’t use feedback sandwich! It doesn’t work and will do more harm than good. There are much better approaches to giving feedback.
Tag: tips & tricks
1 Week Sprint Hurts. But in a Valuable Way.
Is 1 Week Sprint a good or a bad idea? There is only one way to find out. For us it works good (as for now).
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. 🙂
4DX: Implementation
Few hints on what you might expect when introducing 4DX to your team(s).
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?
3 Months of Workation – India, 2019
My lessons learned during 3 months workation in India.
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…
Rules For Meetings
The Internet is full of “10 Rules For Effective Meetings” blog posts so why not create my own? Sure, why not? These are the guidelines I try to follow when organizing meetings. They work fine for me in the context of the company I work for (flat structure, ~80 people, no managers, no corpo-bullshit). I have…
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…