The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. What? The purpose of the Sprint Retrospective is to plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness. The scrum team inspects how the last Sprint went with regards to individuals, interactions, processes, tools, and their Definition of Done. Inspected elements often…
In this article, we’ll talk about how to effectively run a Daily Scrum (a.k.a. “stand-up”) as well as offer great tips and tricks that you can use. This will hopefully will make your stand-ups (and your overall agile experience) awesome! What? The Daily Scrum is a 15-minute event for the Developers of the Scrum Team….
As an Agile Coach, I consider myself fortunate to support people working in AI (artificial intelligence). During a recent workshop, I needed to create a 15-minute group icebreaker for three squads in a hybrid situation. Rather than design a new icebreaker or re-use an icebreaker that I had used before, I decided to use ChatGPT….
The background for this activity is that my Agile Tribe was doubling in size. We were going from 4 squads (40 people) up to 8 squads (80 people) and I was asked to create an icebreaker that allowed the people in existing squads to get to know people new to the Tribe. Initially I was…
The purpose of this exercise is to introduce teams to Agile and Scrum in a practical (and hopefully fun!) way and to help collaboration and teamwork. I have run this exercise a number of times when standing up new teams and have iterated on it and made it better each time. Initially I ran this…