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Scrum of Scrum introduced. Yes!
It’s great to witness how a company changes from somewhat “old school-ish” to something agile-like: Last week we finally started with a Scrum of Scrum and it turns out to be working pretty well only after a few days. Actually most of our teams have been working with some kind of agile process for some…
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NOT done!
One of the principles behind the Agile Manifesto is maximizing the amount of work NOT done! If you really manage to do it, it is very liberating. It actually sounds very easy but is really hard to get it started and keep it going. In meetings I again and again find myself trapped in the…
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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…
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Visualizing Kanban Lead Time
Measuring the lead time is one of the three core means of Kanban (next to Workflow visualization and WIP limitation). But whereas Workflow visualization and WIP limitation are easy to understand for the team, I experienced that nobody really cares about what to do with Measuring the Lead Time. This week I tried a different…
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A Burndown Chart is much more than Traffic Lights
This post is a wonderful example of me being a project manager struggling to become an agile coach: As a project manager I loved to show the status of a project via traffic lights (see image below). I always pinned those traffic lights on the team board and every developer could move his or her…
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3 Retrospectives in 2 Days
Last week I had retrospectives with three different agile teams within 2 days. I love retrospectives and a retrospective meeting is one of the first agile things I try to establish when I start working with a team. Every team needs to get used to the advantages of retrospectives though… The agenda for retrospectives always…