Standing-up dragging on?
There’s a standard format for stand-ups that goes: What did you do yesterday? What are you going to do today? As well as this, it helps to keep the focus on things that are interesting to the team....
View ArticleCodeRetreat
I always have so much fun at Agile 20XX conferences that it sometimes feels anticlimactic when they end. This year, however, I was lucky enough to get one of the last few tickets for Corey Haines’...
View ArticleThe Real Cost of Change
We have a strange desire for control. I was in a planning meeting with my project manager and several of the devs. “What happened?” the project manager said. “Why did this one story take so long?”...
View ArticleCALMalpha – the second request
CALMalpha was meant to be a mash-up between the Lean, Agile and Cynefin / Complexity Theory practitioners. The outcome of the unconference wasn’t really stated. When you understand that a complex...
View ArticleHow to run Safety Checks
Before I run a retrospective, I often run a safety check. The purpose of the safety check is to see how safe people feel sharing their opinions or problems in the room. I’ve been doing this for some...
View ArticleA Helping Hand
This week, Sallyann Freudenberg and Katherine Kirk have been running a small summit on inclusive collaboration and neurodiversity – not just focused on diversity in our experiences, but in the very...
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