Improving Our Agile Practice Together
It’s almost Christmas time, and this week is the last week before some of my team members go on holiday. Time for a Christmas Dinner Retrospective! I wanted to create an atmosphere in which we could lean back, reflect and look back on the past year. So I created a digital Christmas table setting with digital food and beverages, with assignments in different rounds. First I welcomed the team to the Team Christmas Table and...
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, I do 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 couldn’t finish the race. And after the re-start Lewis Hamilton went straight at the first corner due to a...
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 :-))
As a Scrum Master I was looking for a way to bring the (new) scrum guide to my teams attention, and to make it relevant for them in a playful way. We started with a workshop on the scrum events. This sprint I facilitated the Scrum Event Puzzle for one of my teams. It was a fun way to discover what the scrum guide has to say about scrum events, and it also introduced the team to one or two changes in the 2020 version of the scrum guide (for example the added ‘why’ in the Sprint Planning). The goal of the workshop was to educate ourselves on what the scrum guide says about the scrum events, and discover the gap between the team’s practice and the scrum guidelines. (And of course how to close this gap!) Preparation I created a digital whiteboard with empty columns for every scrum event, and pasted all statements about scrum events from the scrum guide on the whiteboard, like this (these are in Dutch): (all pictures are...
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