Category: Meeting Facilitation

  • How to Deal with Results from an Agile Retrospective?

    Have you ever heard a team complaining about results of a retrospective not being realized? I have. And it’s important to change something immediately after hearing it. Realizing the agreed improvments from the retrospective is one of the agile principles of the Agile Manifesto: At regular intervals, the team reflects on how to become more…

  • Agile Team Retrospective Activities: Starfish & Team Radar

    Variety in retrospective activities are definitely necessary. The more retrospectives I do, the more I’m getting tired of using the same method over and over again. And hey, this will most probably bore the teams I work with as well. Therefore it’s good to challenge the team AND you with new retrospective techniques. In the…

  • 108 Ideas in 30 Minutes

    6-3-5 Brainwriting is a Brainstorming method that generates 108 different ideas or views for any topic within 30 minutes. This is how 6-3-5 works: 1) Choose your brainstorming topic/question 2) Prepare the sheets with the topic/question and a table of 6 rows and 3 columns (see image below) 3) Make a short introduction/warm-up with the…