The Four L's is a classic exercise that you can use in your agile retrospectives. It helps your teams to look for things they Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed For in their iteration, and to take actions based on their shared insight on how they are performing as a team.
The book AgendaShift explores how to apply lean and agile principles for lasting change in organizations. Mike Burrows defined Agendashift which is an inclusive, non-prescriptive, values-based, and outcome-centric approach to continuous transformation supported by online, workshop, and coaching tools.
De Agile Self-assessment Game is een kaartspel wat teams kunnen gebruiken om hun agility te verhogen. Marijke Vandermaesen speelde het spel met haar team in een retrospective en stuurde mij haar ervaringen die ik graag deel met jullie. Haar conclusie: "de game is een goed format voor een retro voor teams die pas starten en zoeken naar praktijken om op te nemen of meer ervaren teams die goed op elkaar ingespeeld zijn en zoeken naar de laatste puntjes om op de i te zetten".
Making a business case for agile starts by understanding what agile is about and considering how agile can help you. You have to define your own metrics and track them to see if agile is bringing you business value, and reflect on your agile journey to learn, and adopt.
I played the Agile Self-assessment game with two teams in a session at the Retrospectives Facilitators Gathering 2017 and discussed the game with several attendees. Here are the ideas that came up for playing the game and for improving it.
Agile transformaties leveren vaak niet het gewenste resultaat, omdat de waarom niet duidelijk is, er verkeerde verwachtingen zijn over wat agile op kan leveren en de invoering van agile verkeerd aangepakt wordt. Een agile transformatie, hoe pak je het aan?
In the book Agile Engagement Santiago Jaramillo and Todd Richardson describe a framework that business leaders can use to improve engagement of the people working at their organization.
Priorities are essential if you want to quickly deliver value. But they only work if they are visible for the team and product owner to assure that they are aligned on what needs to be done. Here's my story about how visualizing priorities helped a team to deliver more value.
The ability to write effective user stories enables teams to delivering the right products fast. This post provides several checklists for writing effective user stories and features the perfection game, a technique for giving feedback and providing improvement suggestions to improve your user stories.
Nowadays most agile teams do retrospectives which help them to deal with difficult situations and improve their way of working. But teams don't work in isolation, they interact with other teams and with their stakeholders to deliver value. Let's explore how retrospectives beyond the team level can be used to improve collaboration.
The book The Great ScrumMaster by Zuzana Šochová provides lots of ideas to help Scrum masters deal with everyday situations. Here are 15 quotes from this book to tweet.
If there's one technique that has helped me and many of my customers to effectively deal with situations and get results, it's visualization. Here's how this agile practice works.