Posted by: on February 2nd, 2012
Agile retrospectives are all about getting the team to self-reflect, provide unified feedback and from that feedback take actions to self-improve. I saw the feedback model for individuals and thought that it could easily be adapted for retrospectives and seems to offer much more than a simple what went bad what went wrong practice. Retrospective
Posted by: on November 25th, 2010
SYNOPSIS There is a lot of confusion amongst scrum practitioners on what a theme is.I have seen articles that talk about the theme for a sprint (I see a sprint theme as a goal.) I cannot say that this is incorrect as it depends on the perception of the individual. This article provides you with
Posted by: on February 21st, 2010
What is SMART? SMART is a simple technique that helps you set goals effectively, be it product, organisational, project or for sprints. This is an effective tool to include in your Scrum techniques. What does SMART stand for? Specific Measurable Agreed Realistic Timebound SPECIFIC When setting our goals we do not want them to be
Posted by: on October 23rd, 2009
Recently I was working in an agile environment where everyday one of the employees would use the local newspaper that contained a general knowledge quiz. Everyone in the group would get together for 5 minutes while he read out questions and everyone would attempt to answer. It was such a small thing but it became
Posted by: on October 23rd, 2009
I once observed a practice where story cards were only estimated based on the development effort. This is problematic as it has one specific focus and not looking at the total work that needs to be completed for a story to be moved into done. Product development is not just about writing code.