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Ah… meetings. We all have this love/hate relationship with them. But one thing is certain – we have a power to make them useless or worthwhile.

Sprint Sheriff

Posted on May 17, 2021November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Try rotating your team roles in a round-robin fashion. Each sprint have a different team member responsible for repeatable (and often mundane) activities.

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Publish Feedback To All Participants

Posted on September 26, 2020November 1, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

After receiving feedback from participants share it with them. Yes, everything they reported. There are numerous benefits to this.

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Two Approaches to Daily Meeting

Posted on January 19, 2020November 2, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

The 2 most popular ways to run daily meetings (but you should use the 2nd one!)

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TeamRetro – YAORT (Yet Another Online Retrospective Tool)

Posted on August 28, 2019November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Yet Another Online Retrospective Tool but this one, TeamRetro, works good for us.

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Killing daily meeting (one dev at a time)

Posted on August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 by Tomek Kaczanowski

Daily meeting can go horribly wrong. One of the anti-patterns is to follow the “dev by dev” approach. There are better ways.

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Decider AKA Hand Gestures

Posted on August 9, 2019November 3, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

If only decision taking was as simple as presenting your thumb up or down! Well, actually, it can be. 🙂

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The secret of successful meetings? It is you.

Posted on April 10, 2019November 3, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

There is one host (facilitator) and usually 5-8 participants. Now, whose behavior has more impact on the meeting effectiveness?

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Team feedback – retrospective with goReflect

Posted on January 27, 2019November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

My experiences of using goReflect to run remote retrospective. Worked really well for me.

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Remote retro with RetroTool

Posted on September 13, 2018November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

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…

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Towards perfect 1on1s

Posted on March 31, 2018November 8, 2022 by Tomek Kaczanowski

How to improve your 1on1s? Here is how I approached this problem (and in general the problem of honing your soft skills).

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