Make work fun!
Everyone has some part of their job they dislike. In our recent retrospective at Growing Agile we decided it was admin. Inspired by @portiatung at Play4Agile, Sam suggested we turn our admin time into...
View ArticleBrain Science Talk
We have given this talk a few times now, and need a place to put all the goodies for those who attended the talk. We hope all the templates and the booklet are useful to you. We are privileged to have...
View ArticleKanban – Learn with games
I love agile games – they make learning fun and interesting. Also people tend to remember the lesson as they experienced it. A while ago I did a kanban introduction game at work. The support team was...
View ArticleArchitectural Bodystorming
A few years ago I was introduced to the concept of bodystorming. Basically this is acting out in person how a product might be used as a way of coming up with product ideas and requirements. I tried it...
View ArticleRevolution Exercise
We tried this creative exercise and were impressed with the results. It’s from the book ?What If!: How to start a creative revolution at work. Try the exercise for yourself at work or at home. Think of...
View ArticleFantastic Team Building Activity!
We talk a lot about the importance of creating teams in agile. People need to learn to work together towards an overall goal and share accountability rather than each person doing only their piece and...
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Encouraging healthy conflict
We were recently at a client who wanted to encourage healthy conflict within their teams. This is a common desire amongst teams who have become very easy going with their process. Usually some signs...
View ArticleFlashcards
As a scrum master I often find myself paging through books and scrounging the web for techniques and ways to inject some energy into various meetings. I’ve often wished for a way to just mix and match...
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Full Time Scrum Master experiment part 4 – Retrospectives!
Here I was, full time scrum mastering! There was time to plan mindful retrospectives targeted on what the team needed, it was total bliss. I’d been learning so much and this was an obvious way to put...
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