Category: Creative Team Sessions
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...
How it started A few years ago, while searching for a meaningful way to act on climate change, I started to wonder: what if I brought a sustainability perspective into my own Agile teams? I delved into the topic of sustainable IT and started with a Planet Retrospective for my Scrum team, working through the Principles of Green Software Engineering. We talked about what steps our team could take to reduce the carbon footprint of...
As Scrum Masters, one of our key responsibilities is to effectively help improving team communication. Not always an easy task! Especially when team members have very diverse personalities. In one of my teams we encountered challenges because the communication styles varied so greatly. Some of the team members are extraverted and eager to take the lead, while others are way more reserved and need time to respond. To address this, we did a retrospective about...
