Tag: inspect & adapt

  • Scrum Beyond the Rulebook: A Review of A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game

    Scrum Beyond the Rulebook: A Review of A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game

    German edition: Scrum – Ein Buch über Zusammenarbeit Do we really need another Scrum book? That was my first reaction. What changed my mind was the name on the cover. Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of Scrum, wrote it together with James O. Coplien, an early influence on Scrum and co-founder of the Hillside Group, the software…

  • A Coach’s Field Guide to Change: Esther Derby’s 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

    A Coach’s Field Guide to Change: Esther Derby’s 7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change

    Derby contrasts driving change with change by attraction. Change by attraction relies on trust, expertise, and good information, so that people can move toward something voluntarily.

  • How to Set Off a Brown Bag Session in Your Company – In 60 Minutes

    At my current employer I successfully set off a “Brown Bag Session” with minimal effort (60 minutes), so I like to share this experience with everyone who is thinking about setting off a Brown Bag Session at her company but doesn’t know where or how to start.

  • Check-In Activity for Agile Retrospectives

    Fortunately retrospectives are already a standard at our company now. Not only our developers teams, but also our sales team, our team assistents and as of late also our management (surprisingly, the last.. :)) have regular retrospectives. Because it has become standard to have retrospectives there is also the chance of falling into a dull…

  • 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…