Tag: team collaboration
How LEGO® can help you facilitate self-designing teams
Yes, you read that correctly: we’ll use LEGO® to support people in designing their own team structure(s). As Einstein once said: “Play is the highest form of research”. What you want people to do when designing their own teams is to research different possibilities, and decide on the best setup for them to accomplish their mission. Giving people the space to create their own team...
The benefit of a ‘virtual window’
It's 9 o'clock on a Saturday morning. I start my computer and launch the Skype app. I create a video call with two of my buddies and then get breakfast. Suddenly I hear: "Hey Jeremy, you there?". I pause my breakfast, go to my computer and I see Kevin, I wave to him and say "yeah, I'm just finishing breakfast, I'll be there in a...
Splitting Backlog Items Part 2: Who
After XPDays 2015 in our session “Sharpen your story splitting skills”, we concluded that some additional framing was needed for our useful deck of cards with splitting patterns. This article is the successor of the "Splitting Backlog Items Part 1: When" post, and will handle about the people and aims to help you understand dysfunctions that make item splitting a pain and the reasons for good practices. Background Quite frequently we see...
Why Sprint n-1 Analysis is a BAD idea…
(commonly known as the Scrummerfall anti-pattern) Consider the following familiar situation The team has taken a story in the sprint, and during the sprint, shit hits the fan. They rework, rework again several times to get it to done. Then the “we-could-have-avoided-this” feeling enters the minds of the team... In the Retro the conclusion is clear: We could have avoided this!! We had to analyse this better!...