Background In the past couple of months I dived into the topic of sustainability for scrum teams. Because I, like so many people inside (and outside) of my teams, am looking for ways to help the climate. We started with a Planet Retrospective about Green Software, in which we defined the first steps towards reducing the carbon footprint of our IT landscape. Setting the stage with the Planet Check In But before we started with...
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...
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...
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 or this great (and free!) association card decks. You can use these association cards for a...
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,...
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...
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 :-))
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