Hi guys, for some time I have been thinking about writing a series of blogs about knowledge shared within an organisation. As an Agile Coach, one of my roles is to help companies define a strategy to support a knowledge sharing. In this blog post, I put together several different posts about knowledge sharing techniques. […]
Study Groups - Communities of Practice
Hi guys, in this post I just want to present a really simple idea how you can share knowledge within your team/organization. This activity is called “Book and Coffee Break Study Group”. How many of us read books on our free time and want to share the content of the books with other people but this actually never happened?
Get rid of Managers!!!
Hi guys, this blog post is the result of a chat that I had with a friend of mine today. He called me asking for an advice about team leaders within scrum teams. Right after we booked a dinner, I understood that this is a very interesting topic that cannot be discussed over the phone […]
Success Criteria for Retrospective Topics
Hi guys, this blog will be short and simple :). My last posts were about the reason why we should chose a single topic to take out of a retrospective and why we should do a proper root cause analysis for a selected topic. In this blog, I will introduce something new that I believe […]
Why do we lose time with root causes analysis in Retrospectives?
Hi guys, in my previous post I explained why we should chose only one issue to improve in our retrospectives. This time I want to discuss what to do with that “single issue”. One of the big reasons why I am writing this blog is because I believe I failed as a coach during last […]
Do retrospectives more often!!!
Hi guys, in my last post I explained why I think we should take a single item out from a retrospective. This post received some interesting feedback. One of the examples is: “If a team is big or if items are small, there is no point taking just one item.” My opinion is still the […]
Change one thing at a time!
Hi guys, I have been talking a lot about retrospectives during last weeks. Mainly because our project, “Getting Value out of Retrospectives” was built but also because of my active participation in Retrospectives. I collected some insights that I want to share with all of you. Therefore, I want to discuss why we should only […]
Retrospective Smells
Hi guys, last post I wrote about pre requisites for a good retrospective. In this post I will write about the opposite: “Retrospective Smells”, this means that I will mention several things that you should play attention if it happens to you. These are signs that your retrospectives are not being effective. I want to […]
Retrospectives Pre-Requirements
Hi guys, this blog is part of our book: “Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives”, a book written by me and Ben Linders with the foreword from Esther Derby. The book can be downloaded by free in LeanPub.com or InfoQ.com, please download it and spread it within your colleagues. Like Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley […]
Becoming a high performing team
Hi guys, some time ago I discussed how important it is for a company to have a vision, here you can find more about it. In this post I would like to discuss about the same topic but on a team level. Currently I work as a Coach for teams that are performing really well […]