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Planetary challenges – opening the conversation

Background Over the past couple of years I’ve worked with many teams to help integrate climate awareness (and action!) into their daily work. Leading many of these sessions I learned how important it is to address the strong feelings people have about our planetary challenges, before diving into any of the work. Climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution…. Themes that can make your heart sink. Or themes that you don’t want to face because of the...

Agile WoW / Check In / Retrospective

Agile Principles Retrospective

Wow, the Agile principles! Together with the Agile values they form the Agile Manifesto, the foundation of all Agile frameworks. But while most scrum teams (hopefully) have at least some understanding of the values, the principles are a bit less on the forefront. So I wanted to find a way to teach my team about the principles, because I feel if they understand and internalize the Agile values and principles, they have a profound basis...

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Agile WoW / Check In / Retrospective / Scrum Values / Scrum Values Inspiration / Teaching Scrum

The Scrum Values – Creating Strong Teams

A while ago I was looking for a way to bring the scrum values (courage, respect, openness, commitment and focus) to my team’s attention. This team had their scrum practices in place, but the effectiveness of scrum increases when team members become better at living the values. So we did a retrospective about the importance of the values, and discussed what they mean to team members personally. Check in First we started with a check...

Check In / Retrospective

Creativity with Picture Retrospectives

In retrospectives I love to work with images in stead of sticky notes. It helps people to think outside of the box, to see things from a different perspective. Working with images has several advantages: Here are some ideas that worked really well with my scrum teams. 1. Check In with (online) association cards Have a look at this great (and free!) association card deck. You can use these association cards for a check in....

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Tree of Life – Positivity Retrospective

One of my teams has had many challenges, like: But despite these challenges the team does a really great job. They collaborate really well to achieve our sprint goals (and they achieved all sprint goals since last March!), they do their scrum events and strive to improve their way of working every sprint and they manage their dependencies outside the team better every sprint. Time for a positivity retrospective! We looked back on the positive,...

Check In / Futurespective

Formula 1 Futurespective

To be honest, Ido not really care about Formula 1. But my husband is passionate about it and watches every Grand Prix. Last Monday I needed some inspiration for my team’s retrospective. And I thought of last Sunday’s GP in Baku, what had happened with Verstappen, Hamilton and Vettel. It turned out to be a great analogy for our futurespective, because my team is working towards an important finish line too.  Check in As a check in I asked the team: how do you feel about last sprint on a scale of Max Verstappen?  The retrospective We started the retrospective and talked a bit about last Sunday’s race and the importance of adapting to changing circumstances, having a great start, not taking too much risk, having a great strategy and collaboration. These qualities made Vettel, who started 11th, end up 2nd place.  On the other hand, Max Verstappen was also doing great but had a puncture in one of the final laps, so he...

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Express Yourself

My first video in which I share a practical scrum idea. What are you – my fellow scrum masters and agile coaches – experimenting with these days to serve your teams best? Please share in the comments so we can learn from each other! (A big thank you to my team who supported me in sharing this video :-))